People should be able to transact business among themselves without the government knowing. The ugly comes with the good. It's part of life, personal responsibility.
You can always vote with actions: either ignore the gov and practice business without their permission or start murdering a few of the less productive government employees to motivate the others to actually work.
Not only that, but the gas stains actually close at night because it's not profitable to staff the early hours. I've almost been stranded before due to this.
Just bring a gun. People are so ready to allow gov to get wild, but gov will start to hesitate when people begin to express displeasure. For example, your friend gets held in contempt for not providing a password. You stick it to the state by murdering one cop or gov official per day until that person's release.
Of course, that relies on people giving up their lives to for the cause. But that's war.