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

[Michele]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

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.

What's wrong with monopolistic corporate states? Note that monopsony was also big with the HBC.

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