This statement from you makes me wonder if you've ever known anybody who escaped from a socialist country. In these types of authoritarian countries, deceit is often necessary to survive. There is a thriving black market in places like North Korea and there was one in the Soviet Union. The people who implicitly trusted the government simply perished from starvation, en masse, by the millions. The people who lied and stole to survive were the ones who could find food, or the ones who had acquired forged paperwork to show to the authorities to prevent them from sending them or their family members to gulags.
When an authoritarian state demands "papers please", many dissenters will forge documents to avoid the state's retribution. This is what happens in any country whose government turns to authoritarianism, as ours has.