Your premise has a hole in it. The maximum is not “100% of the corporate assets” at all. Regulation doesn’t just apply to the corporate entity it applies to th

Your premise has a hole in it. The maximum is not “100% of the corporate assets” at all. Regulation doesn’t just apply to the corporate entity it applies to the actual humans involved. You can have regulations that require those humans to provide regular documents to the government with severe penalties for falsifying them, you can require licensing and training and all sorts of things. Of course criminal prosecution is a type of regulation. It’s also a standard counterpart to run of the mill corporate regulations that creates incentives for people to follow regulations. People have kids and families and most certainly respond to incentives. You can threaten those humans with loss of everything they own and their own personal feeedom. Try running an airline without any licensing and see if shutting down the airline is the maximum consequence . Good luck with that. Regulations have teeth. The government of course can do more than just wipe out a company.