My point is that the monastery (or clan) represents roughly the maximum facile size of a voluntary (internally motivated) organization. Scaling above that star

My point is that the monastery (or clan) represents roughly the maximum facile size of a voluntary (internally motivated) organization. Scaling above that starts to require some external management structure (your corporation). Then there is the military (retired Navy here) where there is an explicit hierarchy and a Uniform Code of Military Justice to as an external driver. Hence the authoritarian fascination with military terms. If that's your thing, then organizing society like some vast bipedal ant colony seems attractive.