In this page, "the Archons" are defined as the entities that are behind (any) collections of certain sets of rules, and punishments for not following those rules (including the "secular" laws of modern "western" (i.e. English speaking and/or European) countries). Collections of sets of rules without punishments, I don't call those "Archons", because you can't rule without punishments. Rules without punishments are more like "guidelines" for oneself, one's one moral values, and have nothing to do with being ruled. Whether or not humans can be considered "Archons" depends on the particular interpretation. Any entity which prescribes collections of rules and punishments for breaking those rules is an Archon. It follows that, according to this view (or at least, most of its interpretations), all countries are theocracies, and it's impossible for a country to not be a theocracy. Yahweh and Allah for example are (within the view formulated in this page) both Archons, and so is Tlaloc, who requires child sacrifice, with the threat of severe droughts if that rule is disobeyed. Any deity or non-physical entity that does not prescribe any set or rules and punishments is called (in this page, at least) an "Anarchon" ("not a ruler"). For example, if a deity is conceptualized simply as "the cause of lightning" with no further information, then that deity is an Anarchon. Note that any set or rules and punishments, even absurd ones like "if you eat tomatoes you shall be tortured and put to death", has an Archon behind it.
17th century Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal formulated the following idea: you should "believe in" (i.e. obey, which is what was really meant, and so I will use this word instead since it's more accurate) "God" (i.e. Yahweh), for the following reason: if Yahweh exists [and, I may add, if Yahweh tells the truth about himself, which is a condition Pascal originally took for granted], then if you obey him, he will not torture you after you die, whereas if you disobey him, he will torture you forever after you die. Whereas if Yahweh does not exist [or, I may add, if he exists but he either lies about his characteristics or if he falsely believes something about himself], then even if you follow his rules, you have not lost anything. So, if you follow Yahweh's rules then: if he exists, you'll be spared eternal torture, whereas if he doesn't exist, you won't lose anything. If you disobey his rules however: if he exists, he'll torture you forever after you die, whereas if he doesn't exist, he won't torture you. So, within this framing, it is advantageous to follow his rules to avoid being tortured forever by him in the afterlife.
Of course, the framing of the Pascal's Wager is extremely specific and contains a huge amount of unwarranted assumptions (for example, that the Archon that one is taking into consideration (i.e. Yahweh) has told the truth). The exact same reasoning can be made about any Archon whose punishment is "eternal torture in the afterlife". For example, an argument can be made against eating tomatoes, because if the tomatophobic Archon exists, then by eating tomatoes, it'll torture you forever in the afterlife, whereas if you don't eat tomatoes, you won't get tortured regardless of the existence of the tomatophobic Archon. Furthermore, one can create a version of the wager where the truthfulness of the Archon in question is not taken for granted, and two separate columns are created for "the Archon told the truth" or "the Archon lied/was ignorant about itself" (which can be either conceptualized as one column in the table or two columns.. so how "advantageous" it is to decide to follow an Archon from the structure of Pascal's Wager is entirely a matter of how the table is framed). The first table is how Blaise Pascal formulated the wager ("Yahweh" is substituted with "Archon" to make the reasoning more generic and highlight the structure of the wager rather than its specific content)
| Archon exists | Archon doesn't exist | |
|---|---|---|
| You obeyed the Archon | You won't get tortured forever after you die | You won't get tortured forever after you die |
| You disobeyed the Archon | You will get tortured forever after you die | You won't get tortured forever after you die |
Of course, the table above works for any Archon whose punishment is "eternal torture after death", so it could be argued from it that you should avoid eating tomatoes, or that you should follow literally any arbitrary set of rules decided by whoever argues in favor of the wager.