Built-in inertia in the institutions of the state should ideally keep the state and it’s institutions from collapsing even in the absence of the government. Absence of governance should only mean that new acts aren’t passed until a government resumes, it shouldn’t mean that existing laws and acts become unenforced and existing systems (like civil servant roles) cease to function or be funded.

This inertia really helps when prime minister’s and governments are regularly deleted, as we had in Australia some years back, and as the UK had with Lettuce Truss et. al.