" Unlike the Roman Empire, and its extended citizenship, Superpower has only customers and clients, dominated markets instead of incorporated provinces. The second element is the globalizing corporation. It brings to foreign countries economic goods and services as well as the softening power of cultural influences and products.2 As these elements take hold and develop, the “homeland” is transformed, from a self-governing, predominantly inwardlooking political society into a “home base” for international economic and military strategies. "

― , Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism