Yes, that's true enough. It's just that there's a tendency to tar people with the brush of their Government, as though it's their fault what their politicians get up to.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'