"Governments" no matter what the locations they are in, are nothing but a group of organized terrorists, enforcing their collectivist ideas upon others. The use of force is something any individual is capable of doing to some extent or the others. However, not one individual has that right.
"Govern|ment" proclaiming to get their right to rule over others by the individuals is a lie. An impossibility because if we equal each "right" to govern another, which is equal to zero, then no matter how many people gather to vote and count their right to govern another to delegate that to another, it will always equal to zero. Even if they make their own zero big and emotional, even if they have a million zeros, it will equal to zero. Zero authority plus zero authority will equal zero authority. Their right to rule is an illusion. So the statement above,
"it doesn't have to be"
Is false. It's not that it doesn't have to be, it's that is impossible. It is not a possibility now nor has ever been.
Recognize your sovereignty.
We don't have the right to rule over others. Government is a super deity and statism is their religion.