Chapter 12 — The government, Paragraph 3.1 (§12.00.03.01)

This is the only purpose of a government. Other purposes given to it from time to time (to serve God, the state’s citizens, the nation etc.) are given to it as a result of politics. All of them follow the necessary, but tacit, assumption that a government already controls a state—how else could all these grand purposes be achieved? These are therefore after-the-fact purposes, not the actual purpose of the Being, the organisation that is government. Its purpose, its raison d’être, is to control the state.

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