' Wrote:Like how the East India Trading Company had it's own fleet and army and such.
This is the most on-the-money analogy that I've seen in the thread. I don't know the specifics of the East India Company, but as far as I know it was pretty similar to the Hudson Bay Company. Which, for those who don't know, was a huge company set up by England to obtain resources from the hudson bay area. it was largely independent, but did all its trade through its parent country. It ran its own land, free from any government interference, had a total monopoly on that area, even printed its own money and kept the law within its boundaries. can't really see any difference between this and GMG. But, going off the thread title, it's neither. Sovereign corporation maybe;)
