For starters The State isn't just one thing. Additionally there's so much money involved. The United States M1 money supply is about 4 trillion dollars. Finally

For starters The State isn't just one thing. Additionally there's so much money involved. The United States M1 money supply is about 4 trillion dollars. Finally, I'm not sure this is the right word, but "unit transaction inertia." (UTI) The higher some system's UTI the less likely it is to fundamental change. So, ordering food at a restaurant or getting a taxi is mostly a one-off. It's UTI is near 0 and rarely moves. Paying rent's UTI is a bit bigger. The renter is staying there for a while, the rent is a significant amount of money, the land lord has invested a lot in the property. Also a marriage is going to have a large UTI, just not in terms of money. Ostensibly each party is in it for life and they interact many times every day. Now, on to the state. Any State's UTI is going to be huge. Lots of specialized workers have invested a lot of time and The State interacts with a lot of people and for usually all their lives. Certainly you could use fleas to change the course of a train. But it'll take a lot.