Exmples needed: rise of a Corporate State (Enterprise) from low-tech to TL9

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by lexington

Not on the scale of a country but mining towns were occasionally like that.

Mining towns were a monopoly though. The closest history gets to a corporate state that wasn't some kind of monopoly is the Hanseatic League but that was really an alliance of city states in which guilds were politically powerful, but they were not in fact the state.