Are you looking for an appropriate word to name this?
I think that a good name is "propaganda", especially when the information is of political relevance.
In the past (and to some extend present) some totalitarian or non-democratic states used propaganda to shape public opinion.
One of the ways that the government can become a consumer is that in its construction projects, they are dependent on manufactures of cement, gravels, and producer is when it lets the citizens pay for all permits.
It is either 21 or 18. They have talked about lower the age to 18 but I am not sure if they did it yet or not.
