You are, of course, correct, I was obviously getting a bit carried away with hyperbole. My deeper point is one of size. At some point, these companies start d

You are, of course, correct, I was obviously getting a bit carried away with hyperbole. My deeper point is one of size. At some point, these companies start doing country-like things, at country-like scales. In this particular example, I'm talking about activities that start to look like something you might called "Intelligence", and "counter-Intelligence", just as an example.