[zyxley]

I think Charles Stross(?) has featured this in books, with creations with bylaws that can be resolved as software instructions creating other corporations with bylaws resolved as software instructions, etc, with assorted corporations appointed as officers of others, creating tremendously deep layers of autonomous shell corporations.

[arkem]

Accelerando by Charles Stross is the book you're thinking of.

[zyxley]

Thanks.