[quote=@Hael]
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I feel we were overcrowded then, so even with those drop-outs, we're still more full than we should be.

*sigh* But I am super-easy to persuade, so if [@Willy Vereb] will give me the general idea of what he wants to do, I'll consider letting him in.
[/quote]I thought I did.
Galactic Walmart.
Well, not necessarily galactic in scale but think of a megacorp which has little if any actual political power but rather it's an interstellar enterprise which works for profit.
Capitalism taken to its extreme. Not a nation but a mother company with God knows how many daughter firms spread everywhere (or at least to many places).