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Sure, but walmart can also fairly effectively lobby a small town of 20,000 to get what they want, and an unscrupulious national company can bring federal resources to bear that a local company that crosses them are I'll equipped to deal with. That a multi planetary system can bully a single...

Eh, not quite. There really isn't a point where a company gets so big it takes over the role of government. At least, as a general rule. For example, compare from this list of banks in the US. The largest bank has some $2.6 trillion in assets, while the smallest only has $15 billion. Thats a...

@PeliusAnar : Oh, Megacorporations certainly wouldn't be, on their own, a driver of stability per say. Just a driver of Centralization and a creator of "galactic issues" which would justify the existence and strength of a Galactic governance. To see the distinction, look at Greece in the EU...

@PeliusAnar : I think your misenagining how true megacorps work in a galactic power: their not a threat to galactic power, their going to be the primary pusher of it. Most of the advantages for building galactic institutions, as youve suggested, are mostly to the benifit of galactic...

Hm. I'm going to go off of the numbers of 100 quadrillion and 50 million systems. So, I once heard that, as a basic rule of thumb, an effective number of representatives would be about the cube root of the population. So, of 100 quadrillion, cubed would suggest a representative body of about...