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Explanation: The British East India Company was a British corporation which, in the 1700s and 1800s, managed to worm itself into power over most of the Indian subcontinent, ruling over Indian kings and princes - including a company army that was larger than the actual British army. Talk about regulatory capture!
Thanks for the time you invest to give us all these explanations in your posts, really helpful!
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Wait till you here about the Hudson Bay Company. Canada got created to protect their interests.
The Dutch in the Congo, too, right? Or was that held directly by the crown?
The Congo Free State was owned directly by the Belgian crown.
Wonder when our tech overlords will finally start to build their private armies...
Gekoloniseerd :( - Becoming slightly less evil every cycle though. We are in quite a dip right now, will get out. Natural cultural evolution and all.
Coming to a "land of the free" near you soon.