People started to drop less litter in the streets, for example, started to pay taxes, started to feel something they had forgotten, where municipal police, or the state itself, were missing.
譬如说，人们往街上扔垃圾的行为变少了 开始付税金 开始感觉到一度淡忘了的一些事 当城市警察，或说国家本身正在消亡的时候