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by mtviewdave 3641 days ago
The "corporation" you've described is a government. Literally.

A government (in the United States) is just a mechanism for an area's resident citizenry to express their collective will. Whether you call it "government" with "citizens", or a "corporation" with "shareholders", it's the same thing.

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They fill similar conceptual roles, but the details are different.
...and those details are?