Has there been any presence or mention of any sort of government at any point in the show?

I might have missed something in the first two seasons, since I haven't watched them since they aired, but I can't recall a single instance of anything about the US government being mentioned or shown in season 3. Not even any police officers.

The only thing I can think of are the "privacy laws" which had been said to be created decades in the past, and there was never anything about who/what passed them. Are they an international thing? Who knows.