Some years ago, I lived outside of an Inuit village in a fly fishing camp in Alaska for a summer. The only way in was by plane, and then riverboat.

There were 15 houses built by the Federal Government in the Inuit village. They were built to Federal code. With toilets, sinks, plumbing, wiring, outlets, everything.

Because the village was remote, they had no power, no piped water, nothing. So nothing in those houses worked. But the locals had found ways to adapt them to be somewhat livable in that environment.

This was my first experience seeing the nature and effect of centralized government.