And everybody has a military-grade weapon. How is this place not an active war zone? If there's no government, who does the defense department listen to? Are there laws? What good is a defense department anyway, if the only military power available to them is just as available to everyone else?

[these aren't even real questions at this point so much as a continued expression of disbelief.]

What do you mean, 'suspicious'? In the sense that there has to be some underlying structure to this that isn't readily apparent?