Template talk:Government

Why?
You have this inserted in line 6: Why? From what I understand, you're trying to tell the template that if nothing is entered in, then the default would be. Why not just put in the following?: background: Or is there something I'm not getting here...

I duplicated this template on to my [wbvdkt.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Government_infobox Wikia] about a year ago, but I knew little about Wikicoding. I wondered why it didn't look identical to the one on this wikia. I now know why, but not how. From what I can tell, it's getting more coding from  and , but I do not understand where that code is or how it's inputted. I had to reconfigure the template manually, and I only achieved a somewhat identical look after about 4 months. Could someone please tell me?