<Tr> <Td> Corporate republic </Td> <Td> Theoretical form of government occasionally hypothesised in works of science fiction, though some historical nations such as medieval Florence might be said to have been governed as corporate republics . The colonial megacorporations such as the Dutch East India Company should possibly be considered corporate states, being semi-sovereign with the power to wage war and establish colonies . <P> While retaining some semblance of republican government, a corporate republic would be run primarily like a business, involving a board of directors and executives . Utilities, including hospitals, schools, the military, and the police force, would be privatised . The social welfare function carried out by the state is instead carried out by corporations in the form of benefits to employees . Although corporate republics do not exist officially in the modern world, they are often used in works of fiction or political commentary as a warning of the perceived dangers of unbridled capitalism . In such works, they usually arise when a single, vastly powerful corporation deposes a weak government, over time or in a coup d'état . </P> <P> Some political scientists have also considered state socialist nations to be forms of corporate republics, with the state assuming full control of all economic and political life and establishing a monopoly on everything within national boundaries--effectively making the state itself amount to a giant corporation . </P> </Td> </Tr> <P> While retaining some semblance of republican government, a corporate republic would be run primarily like a business, involving a board of directors and executives . Utilities, including hospitals, schools, the military, and the police force, would be privatised . The social welfare function carried out by the state is instead carried out by corporations in the form of benefits to employees . Although corporate republics do not exist officially in the modern world, they are often used in works of fiction or political commentary as a warning of the perceived dangers of unbridled capitalism . In such works, they usually arise when a single, vastly powerful corporation deposes a weak government, over time or in a coup d'état . </P> <P> Some political scientists have also considered state socialist nations to be forms of corporate republics, with the state assuming full control of all economic and political life and establishing a monopoly on everything within national boundaries--effectively making the state itself amount to a giant corporation . </P> <Tr> <Td> Cyberocracy </Td> <Td> Theoretical form of government that rules by the effective use of information </Td> </Tr>

Describe the three basic forms of government structures