Why would the government strive for sovereignty?

In essence, the government does not strive for sovereignty, at least not directly. The government (which is a Being) merely controls a dataset (in this case, the state); control over a dataset means control of its processing and of processing on it. If an individual (another Being) exercises control over a Thing, for example, a table, it controls processing on that table (the individual’s own processing, as well as the processing carried out by other Beings on it). Similarly, if that same individual controls another Being (e.g. a corporation or a drone), it controls the processing done by the Being itself as well as that which is done on it: whatever processing is carried out by that corporation or that drone is also controlled by that same individual as the indirect result of its control of the corporation and the drone (which created the new information). By the same token, because the government controls the state, it controls the processing done by it and on it (in principle, see §16.00.06)—irrespective of the vast, immense scope of such processing. Therefore it is not for its sake, in pursuit of sovereignty, that the government controls the state—control over the state is natural to the government, because the state (and the government) exists. Sovereignty (that is, the quest to control each and every processing operation happening on the information platform that is the state) comes as a natural result of the controlling nature of the relationship (in the same manner that, on an individualised basis, it is sought after by any Being exercising control over another Being or a Thing, see §06.00.02 and §06.00.08).

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