[Protagoras]

Governments have certainly done her no good.

Thye have been traditionally ruled by what Walter Williams calls "Kleptocracies".

[headsonpikes]

Aye, thye have been.

Kleptocracy is the one universal form of rule, at all times, in all places.

With all-too-brief interregnums, so to speak.(Am.Rev.e.g.)