Well if you are facing the government your adversary has practically limitless time and money...

I'm glad I live in a country were lawyers still have some professional honor to take on cases that don't pay. But they have to subsidize poor clients with rich ones.

Right, but that's only really a problem because affording a lawyer for any amount of time is ruinously expensive. If lawyers were cheaper (or litigation much faster), even fighting the government would be affordable, even if it would be an awful experience in other, non-financial ways.

Pro-bono stuff is a great and honorable tradition, but it's not enough. I worry about any system that depends on poor citizens being sympathetic enough to receive free legal representation as a charity from otherwise unaffordably expensive lawyers. It's clearly superior to locking all poor citizens away from legal representation, but it's not anywhere close to sufficient.