Russia certainly isn&#x27;t a subsistence state, but I&#x27;d hesitate to call it a &quot;modern society&quot; too. It&#x27;s also a petro-state that enjoys the luxury of deriving around a third of government revenues from oil and gas. Most of Western Europe has to make up that gap with additional taxes even before it starts to provide its citizens with more support.<p>You can have a perfectly harmonious society where everyone <i>within it</i> voluntarily respects each others&#x27; possessions, but you&#x27;re still going to need force (or the implied threat of force) to prevent outsiders who aren&#x27;t part of that particular social contract and don&#x27;t particularly want to be from making use of that property. The possibility that someone might not voluntarily accept a social contract over the ownership of property is an existential threat to property rights which can only be resolved through [implied] force. Hence <i>de jure</i> and <i>de facto</i> the basis of all property and trade is the coercion that enforces its rules, whether that&#x27;s by a government institution or a group of friends with big guns.