NationStates Jolt Archive

So on a topic ACTUALLY RELATED TO NATIONSTATES:

What are governments really for? To lead our society towards an ideal goal? To protect our individual rights? Can these two goals coexist successfully? Did we forget why we founded governments in the first place? Should we resort to anarchy until a new social order establishes itself? Do governments have a responsibility to nations other than their own?

Fire away!

To give me power to take over the world.

To prevent human beings from violating each other's rights, and to provide a forum for collective action when individual action will not accomplish the necessary objectives.

Governments protect their citizens. They may not all do the best job but countries with a weak government are in chaos.

To serve its people.

To serve its people.

It's a cookbook! A cookbook!

Government exists to manage the balance of rights between the individuals that compose a society.