Government is an entity made up of a group of people that manage the affairs of a municipal entity, state, or nation. The federal government in the USA oversees all 50 states, while each state government manages and oversees only the population of that state. A democratic government is one that is made up of the people, and it governs by the will of the people. A dictatorship is a government that rules by force and violence instead, and a single person holds most or all of the power.