Tax
This guy living in Somalia, a country without government and thus by definition in anarchy, does his job but has to give half of what he produces to gunman, who "protect" him. He isn't really very up for this situation, but what is one to do.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4040889.stm#mahamut:
I get about 20 rods a day but I have to give half of them to the gunman who controls the area I work.
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This hammer is very heavy and if I had a choice, I would do something else.
But if I could not go to school and had to carry on doing this, at least if there were a government, I would not have to give half the rods to the gunman.
Right. This guy has not tried living in a country with a government recently.
On all of my without-VAT income I pay 47% tax (average) to the government. Then there's the 20% VAT charged on top of the without-VAT income.
And now I have just got a bill because I paid some tax late. I've no idea which tax I paid late or why. I pay the tax bills immediately I get them. I am not a fool. (= I am scared of the government.)
This late penalty is €104.47. Which is quite a lot, I think, for paying tax late (which I don't remember paying late anyway). I mean what's this money for? I wish I earned enough, that the interest on my monthly tax, that the government lost because I paid something a few days late, was over a hundred Euros. But alas, unless interest rates went up dramatically and I didn't notice, that's not the case.
Or maybe it was the money they had to pay to process my lateness. In which case I wish I was a computer. Processing some database row, collect €104.47. That's a well-paid computer.
So it doesn't matter where you are, or what the style of leadership is in the country you happen to do your work. There's stuff to be paid and there's little you can do about it. And if they decide you've done something wrong and have to pay even more stuff, there's nothing you can do about that either.