No one person, or faction, can rule a society without cooperation from those who hold power in various activities that make a functional society possible. From the hectic boardrooms of industrial oligarchs to seedy backrooms of mafiosi, those who imagine themselves in position to govern must gather cooperation, or at least tacit assent, of the various interests, if he and his faction is able to survive. Whether monarchy or "democracy," the primary purpose of any government is to first distribute resources to those powers within the social structure, whose cooperation is necessary for those in government to be able to rule. Government is nothing more than a consensus of various factional powers that agree upon established resource distribution. Those in government, who foolishly attempt to disrupt the existing consensus, either die in miserable conditions, or must spill oceans of blood in revolution.

Microsoft, Nestle, Coca-cola, etc. are transient corporate entities that exist at the whim of those who control the flow of currency. Those who control the coin of currency, represent one faction of a social matrix. Another supplies those necessary luxuries (drugs, slaves, organs, etc), frowned upon by the masses, but nonetheless are critical elements of proper functioning economy. The army of legal bureaucrats that legitimise government actions against their subjects represent another important faction. The moral philosophers in academia and religion maintain another important seat at the table of powerbrokers. Most importantly, those who control the mechanism to inflict death and destruction must be appeased and recruited, if any ruler imagines himself master. Those who hold the reigns of power are unseen and unknowable. Those who are in the spot-light are pawns and nonentities. The true Zaibatsu are hidden.