The State marries you, insures you, will even gamble with you for a trifle.
"You get yourself born," says the German Government to the German citizen, "we do the rest.

Indoors and out of doors, in sickness and in health, in pleasure and in work, we will tell you what to do, and we will see to it that you do it.

Don't you worry yourself about anything." And the German doesn't.

Where there is no policeman to be found, he wanders about till he comes to a police notice posted on a wall.

This he reads; then he goes and does what it says.
I remember in one German town--I forget which; it is immaterial; the incident could have happened in any--noticing an open gate leading to a garden in which a concert was being given.