How did governments come to be?

Governments, in the form of chieftains or heads of (larger or smaller) families or governing councils, existed and were controlling their states (basically, extended families or clans) long before writing was invented. Why did governments exist at such an early stage? How did they come to be? Are they, like the state, natural to humans? Governments came to be because the state, which was formed immediately when two humans named themselves and started talking to each other, is itself a dataset (a Being, in fact an organisation), and all datasets are subject to control by a Being. There is no dataset, Thing or Being, in the analogue or the digital world that is not under the control of a Being. Therefore, once a state was formed a Being immediately controlled it, in line with that Being’s need and opportunity. It was that Being that formed the first government, establishing a relationship between a state and its government that has never since ended (writing, once invented, merely formalised the relationship).

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