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It kind of seems like what you're describing here is just a new government. If they've taken on all the powers and responsibilities of a government then what separates them from a government? Isn't the term Corporation meaningless at that point?
That's part of why I've generally been putting quotation marks around the word "corporation."
It's not meaningless though, because the underlying structure will likely remain essentially the same as it was when it was merely a corporation. And the relationship between the "government" and its "citizens" will have evolved from a relationship between a business and its customers/clients, and will undoubtedly retain some aspects of that. Most notably, the whole concept of public servants will vanish. Instead, the "government" will offer some specific services to potential citizens-as-customers, who can take them or leave them. Or, additionally or possibly even alternatively, the "government" will demand specific things of citizens-as-employees who will have the "choice" of following their demands or seeking employment-as-citizenship elsewhere.
In either event (or any other - this can't possibly be an exhaustive list), the basic dynamic between "government" and "citizen" will be notably different from any of the ones we've seen before (though likely broadly most similar to feudalism).
In an anarcho-capitalist city-state you could have a fiat cryptocurrency system that has software for electronically programmable sanctions. Everyone is given a basic income from the local treasury organization and pay fees when purchasing products and services. The community programs in fees to pay for basic infrastructure, a legal system, and financing public projects. A percentage of the fee revenue goes back to the local treasury organization.
There could be a hypothetical society that has ai ran corporations that have programmable ownership shares. Replace all executives with ai agents and program the earnings to be equally divided with the workers of the company. Everyone would get paid once with a salary and once with a share of the earnings.
Conventional companies would have to compete with a company that pays their workers twice and gives them equal ownership in the business.