Dude, we're barely the top species on the planet. We've got endurance, healing factor, and social behaviors (including language), but that's about the only set of things we do really well.
We could go pretty far, though, if we find better ways of self-regulating our social behaviors and controlling our meta-organisms like corporations and governments.
No, government is our way of self-regulating individuals. The function of a government, however, is to benefit the individuals in its domain, and currently they're operating more as self-sustaining meta-organisms and treating individuals as an expendable resource.
B_ass_ I knew the song was about butts but oh my.