Thread: If the United States government was a corporation

I'm just in my alternate political configuration phase. I already started a thread on a military takeover of the United States government (my verdict before was that the military seems pretty competent; the danger from suspension of political freedoms is not the immediate repression but its long-term effects on the integrity of the government. Dictatorship is rarely replaced peacefully. And considering the special makeup of the United States, it would essentially destroy the ideological backing that holds the United States together. It'll probably be workable in the short-term, perhaps sustainable in the mid-term, but a disaster in the long-term), and I'm wondering what the United States would look like if it was run by a publicly-traded corporation. It might be significantly inferior to the present configuration, but at least the valuation of the United States government would be pretty damn interesting.