Most anti-government revolutions, protests and movements also tend to make a region revert back to previous conditions or likely leave them worse off than before because they are moved by bad, incomplete or inconsistent ideas.

Bitcoin is a good idea. It will win and is winning without the need for violence. It's unique like that.

Natural rights, sound money, free speech, private property, voluntary contracts, free markets, free banking, common law, economic specialization, division of labour, self-ownership, right to self-defense, freedom of trade, natural justice are good ideas.

Economic planning, price controls, central banking, fiat money, forced wealth redistribution, arbitrary expropriation of property, egalitarianism, state-granted monopolies, positive law and social justice are bad ideas.

It's not some inevitable 'power vacuum' that a state fills.

It's a vacuum of good ideas about how humans ought to organize, interact, cooperate and resolve conflict that get filled by bad ideas about the same.

The extent to which the people in a region adopt a good idea or a bad idea determines their standard of living, level of civility, economic advancement, stability, peace and prosperity. I'd go out on a limb and add moral and spiritual advancement as well.

People in civilised and advanced economies, societies and cultures are lucky enough that they can peacefully advocate for the good ideas without starting from scratch, since they are already recognised and widely accepted to a certain extent, atleast implicitly.

Those who aren't as fortunate will have to do a lot more intellectual brunt work. Possibly, they would face some degree of violence and threat to their livelihood as well.

Thus, it isn't surprising that certain regions remain unstable, poor and uncivilised no matter what, while others do fine in this regard.

It's always the ideas that make or break a society.

H/T Murray Rothbard