I never said that it couldn't live without government. Notice the end of my first paragraph - I know that. "Corporate governing entity". And of course they need to be funded - but operating on soil you own and govern is, without a doubt, going to be a LOT cheaper than operating withing US regulations. And then they can provide a police force that keeps the peace and furthers their agenda and interests. And subcontract a medical company to take care of the wounded - which of course will be at a slim cost since they can always merge with a medical company for the purpose.

And saying 'corporations which are larger than many governments' isn't hard considering that most African countries have a small GDP. And hell - for comparison, my CITY has more budget than Vatican City (which IS a country) by an order of magnitude. Now - if you can get me numbers on how many companies are larger than a DEVELOPED, PRODUCTIVE country, I'll agree with it. Because as far as I know, only the top 11 companies in the world have a revenue that can challenge the GDP of the developed countries with the lowest GDP - and four of them are 'western' oil companies, one of them is a Saudi oil company, three of them are owned by China. Then there's the Samsung Group. The only two companies which I could see could fit is Vitol, which manufactures commodities (and I don't have much info on it) and Toyota (which I can see fitting into the 'voluntary payments' part as they ARE stellar cars). And ignoring the government subsidies doesn't do much to help.