As I said on the other thread, there is a government with a police force backing fiat. They also guarantee they will buy the fiat currency and in exchange give you the continued use of the land you own. This is why it is called 'fiat', which means backed by law or authority.
Governments have demonstrated that they do not have to accept their own currency [0] and have demonstrated a willingness to drive the value of their currency down. [1]