"The government is bad," she frowned. "I mean, people can be bad. You can get some crazy guy running around shooting everybody else. But you really need a system to work up the big evil. The crazy guy gets arrested, or someone shoots him. To take out entire cities and get a thousand years of pointless death going? That, you need the government for. And a spiffy-sounding religion makes it go twice as far. Don't ask questions, or we'll kick you out and then you'll be screwed. And by the way, we need more money."