I agree that they hold the same amount of power as what you have said, but isn’t a country a group of individuals making choices and behaving in a way which sets the foundation for the policies of the country?

You can’t change a country by yelling at the offices of the overseers, you have to change the behaviours and attitudes of the individuals so that they make choices and behave in such a way as to take power back from those in the “offices”.