Hey, that sounds a lot like all governments to me. They can do what they want for the most part, often ignore safety (and, unlike most corporations, actively seek to slaughter many many people sometimes), steal from their citizens, are incompetent at just about everything, generally -mandate- (by threat of physical violence) that no competition is allowed to exist within a geographical area (ie competing governments are not allowed...only subservient ones in the form of subservient goverments like state or city governments). Heck, even Enron doesn't look too bad to me compared to most governments. At least Enron didn't cause the Holocaust or murder 25-50 million Russians during Stalin's purges.
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