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October 11, 2012

• This article presents an interesting idea suitable for the near future as outlined or the far future to consider existing countries taken over by a company or super-conglomerate, or as a circumstance on spaceships, space stations, and alien planets. Alternate histories are another possibility considering Walt Disney's plan for Epcot as a city. There are pitfalls as stated in the article and the old idea of the Company Store from American history is it's own valid idea to run with. Consider also the creation or re-creation of an area like in Qatar.