The purpose of having a
government is to ensure safety from foreigners, neighbors, anarchy, governments,
and all humanly curable catastrophes. It should also be responsible
for maintaining peace and order for those who desire it. Governments
are to formally represent groups of people (bonded through similar prespectives)
to other groups of people. It is the glue for a society, for without
a government, anarchy would prevail, and the strong would survive.
If the only the strong survived, the intellectual class would be abolished,
and the strong would continue to get closer to meeting certain doom as
our home planet slowly gravitates towards a ball of fire in space.
Governments mold the individuals into 'the people', and maintain the reputation
and values of those people.