Who run Bartertown?

Funny. But , not quite.

I am sure betterment and merriment are lies too, huh? The trap is taking english as leading.

Goto: Latin, not modern french. mentir indeed is to lie, but in essence it relates to the mind i.e. mental construction. This may entail a lie, but not necessarily so. But to govern is by its very nature a mental construct.

Latin: mendax / mendciter

However, the MIND => mens/ mentis. Think: Mens Rea. [intention]

Meaning: the intention or Objective to steer/ pilot. in the word construction, as in government, is functions as the suffix -ing (INGWAZ: runic;) meaning completion of the whole process from begin to end with a result)

It relates to ship, car, personal choices, anything that requires choice and di-rection. (di = 2, rect = to orient on a course/ right; Germanic: richt-ung/ rechten/ richten).

What it has become, the parasitic hierarchical nest, as opposed to what it should have been: free men voluntarily working together with a compact, well, it is the difference between night and day.