Traditional formal, visible governments, and especially so democratic governments, are relatively easy for powerful outside forces (stronger foreign governments, large corporations especially banks) to infiltrate and take over.

What George Soros's concept of "open society" really means is governments and economies that are open for takeover by the system of big corporations and so-called NGOs that he himself coordinates. Aside from just a few governments such as in Russia and China that are able to defend themselves, any foreign government that fails to submit is targeted for regime change operations through either "color revolutions" (foreign-sponsored coups disguised as popular uprisings) or outright military invasion. In the latter case of military invasions, the invasion may be framed as a "humanitarian intervention" (typically after launching false-flag terror attacks, then blaming the target government for them), or may be contracted out to a proxy such as ISIS/Daesh, in order to reduce popular opposition to the military operation.

What this means is that visible government tends to be nothing but a "front-man" operation that doesn't really make any important decisions; they're all handed down from secret committees. The real government is the shadow government, and there's no real feedback from those who are subjects of the shadow government.

This pattern started in the early 20th century in the Soviet Union, and is now the default state of affairs worldwide. Any and all remaining sovereign nations are run by their supposed "national security agencies" or in the case of China, by a single party that is the de facto government.