But your lack of vote is not a vote for less government. If American, they still control a significant amount of violence amd laws in your area. They can still make mining illegal amongst many other things. It can get worse. You can deny the fact that they have any power over you but that is not true. If you have a vehicle, license, passport, property, or consume on fiat rails in any way you are still part of that system, unlike the Catholic church. Bad analogy. I'm not US and don't vote in the US. That's a better analogy.