This is maybe the most plausible one I’ve heard. There’s also empires in general, but they’re less plausible as examples—for one thing, I imagine they’re pretty biased towards being a certain way (something like, being set up to channel and aggregrate violence) at the expense of achieving any particular goals.
Early corporations, like the East India Company, might be a decent reference class?
This is maybe the most plausible one I’ve heard. There’s also empires in general, but they’re less plausible as examples—for one thing, I imagine they’re pretty biased towards being a certain way (something like, being set up to channel and aggregrate violence) at the expense of achieving any particular goals.