In my state, Western Australia, water, electricity, and public transport are government-run. We don't have to spend time looking for a "provider" who offers me electricity 1 cent cheaper for the next 3 weeks.
Those who extract gas from the ground here, like Shell and co., have to "give" 15% of their production to our state for domestic consumption. Prices are fixed.
The healthcare system is public; alongside it, there is a private system that one can optionally choose in addition, visits to the general practitioner are usually free. Contributions for the public system amount to 2% of taxable income annually, 2.5% for higher earners. Dental costs must be borne personally or covered privately. Private insurances are only supplementary and do not cover surgeries entirely.
On our "highway," the maximum speed is 100 km/h, in the bush 120 km/h. Most accidents happen there, poor lighting, many trees, narrow roads.
We have very few traffic signs. Whoever approaches a T-junction must yield to the right and left.
There is no civil servant status here.
Pensions are mostly privately financed; the employer must pay 10% of the gross salary into a fund, one can also contribute oneself but does not have to. For non-earners and low earners, there is a state pension. So one is somewhat dependent on the stock market. Overall, most have enough money in old age, the house is paid off, or one moves into something cheaper. There are more homeowners than in DE, of course with lower standards.
Our tax return is completed by the authorities except for the annual income, 14 days after the end of the financial year. All authorities, banks, insurers, etc., are interconnected. This has been the case for years; everything is online.
When I go to the pharmacy, it knows whether I have already bought various medications elsewhere that I am only allowed to purchase in limited quantities over the counter. They are interconnected as well.
Information is presented understandably so that a former Bolivian farmer, who now plants and sells strawberries here, also understands everything.
In a nutshell, a much less complicated life... nobody would think as much as people in this thread do about every pub.