For centuries, national governments, or nation states, have been pursuing a business model of taxing their citizens’ productivity in exchange for the oft false promise of old age and security. Traditionally, such rent-seeking schemes benefited an inner circle of ruling families and their wealthy life styles, the nobility and royalty. But today, nation states and their ruling elites are in direct competition with multinational and transnational corporations. In order to increase their profits, powerful multinationals not only seek to evade taxation from national governments, but also aim to expand their revenue by taxing and governing citizens themselves.