Your comment makes no sense to me.
That figures.
Israel has to have an army and all the apparatus of a national government because its neighbors have armies which could attack.
Virginia doesn't need its own army because Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee don't have their own armies.
Maybe the state's resources are better applied to other, peaceful and commercial, activities. Or do you really think Virginia's or Maryland's interests are best served by making nuclear weapons and aiming them across the Potomac at each other.
Is it really so hard to understand?