That seems a bit unfair, Shadow Nexus. Isn't the government supposed to represent the people and carry out their will? Well, the good forms of gov't, at least. So, unless some families got together and paved roads and dug sewers and whatnot on their own, the gov't did.

Not that I know much about Spain, though, so I might be completely wrong. I even forgot that y'all have a king.
No, they just order the people who work for them to build the roads. So at the end, it's the workers who do the job.

The day a politician worries more about the people than about mantaining his position, I will hold some minimal respect for the goverment, but as far as it's a show of lies and stealing, I think I'll keep doubting power.

About the king, we live in a constitutional monarchy. The king is the major political figure, but he does not act unless something really big and nasty is happening. This means that, since he came back from exile in 1975, he has only acted one time, and god, I'm thankful he acted, or now we would live under a military dictatoship woshipping our flag....euurgh *shivers*. The other figure is the "democratically" elected president.