[meowkit]

Government is just the biggest “private” company, whose business is violence[0] - both the use and mitigation of it. Every citizen is a stakeholder. Foreigners are not invested, they are competition, both friendly and not. We vote at shareholder meetings called elections.

From this simplistic framework I wouldn’t say there is a big difference. About the only thing I can think of is scale, and optimization for human wellbeing instead of profit, but that hardly feels true in the modern world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence