Social Trap and Problem of Citizens Non-Cooperation with the Government in Iran

Non-cooperation with government is an enduring issue in accomplishment of sustainable financial resources for government budgetary in Iran. The Social Trap theory argue that the reason of this problem is pertinent to distrust of a society’s members to each other formed already over the span of the years. This article attempts to test this claim by the means of an experiment. So, the main question of this research that is "why does not people cooperate with the government?" was answered in an empirical manner by the method of Gaming as the tool of simulation in order to design an experiment. The results of the test show that people cooperation with the government more influenced by government strategies than the cooperation of other members of the society. Hence, for the analysis, SPSS software and Chi-Square test are used. Furthermore, logistic regression is used for the modeling of the experiment results.