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

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Originally Posted by Michele

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

This is what's wrong with monopolistic corporate states:

Originally Posted by OP

I'm talking about what the other book called the Enterprise subtype of Corporate State. Notably, monopolies are harshly end efficiently persecuted in this state (or else it would fall into a different category).

EDIT: Which probably means the Free Enterprise Society described on Space p196.

Which gives me an example. Earth in the setting of Stross' books Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise. Most of the stories are set off of it, but there essentially everything is freely contracted, be it citizenship (when practiced...many instead contract privately for such services as military protection), policing services, or (if I recall correctly) nuclear bomb-threat handling. It's not exactly utopian, what with the need for regular nuclear bomb-threat handling services...

Also, for a more dystopian version, the better organized parts of the Snow Crash setting tend to be bits of this floating in a soup of anarchy.

Edit-again: Both of those examples became free enterprise society-like in late TL8 at the earliest, deriving from modern Earth as they do.