Controlling the state

What does it mean, that the government controls the state? It means that the government has the ability to allow or prohibit processing operations both on the state and by the state. (But the government cannot destroy the state; hence it has no property rights over it, see §24.00.01.) The former means that the government has the ability to control processing operations by others (other Beings) on the information platform that is the state. This it does by basically prohibiting (i.e. monitoring) all of these operations to the best of its ability, securing exclusive control over the information processing carried out in a state for itself (see, however, §12.00.10, and also the analysis on sovereignty in §16.00.04). The latter means that the government can allow or prohibit any processing operation by the information platform that is the state, regardless of the fact that the state is natural to its citizens and necessary for them to live a meaningful life. Moments of both inhuman atrocities and of exemplary humanism throughout history are the result of governments and their decisions (i.e. of politics), not of the state.

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