What Is the Government?

In any given setting, the government is whatever party holds a monopoly on force. I saw an oppressive group of individuals that wanted power and they were using whether or not you bowed to them in a certain way at a certain time. Effectively, that is a government, though. It just felt like a very broad sweeping term that you were trying to get me to agree to,. So i decided so, yo, just disagreed without thinking bout it was, if you're right, i just disagree.