The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.