In looking over stuff in Operation Mockingbird and related works, it's pretty clear there was a directive in Hollywood to make US government look competent and all powerful. Games that pull inspiration from such movies would, in turn, keep that stance.

A small group of actors with the permissions and power of the government are able to facilitate great change, as we are seeing today, but as a whole, if private companies have sqrt(number of employees) of actual productive people, government has to be cube root at a minimum,