Govt/State = slave owner’s corporation
Backers/Controllers of politicians = corporate shareholders
Representatives = Members of board of directors
Head of state = CEO
Taxes = corporate profits
Laws/Regulations = corporate policy
Nation/Country = plantation
Judges/Courts/Bureacracy = corporate administration
Soldiers/Police/Tax-Collectors/Etc. = overseers/enforcers
Rights = corporate-granted and revokable priveleges
Citizens = slaves
After-tax Income = slaves’ allowance
Patriotism = worship of the corporation and plantation
Public school = where the patriot religion is instilled in slave children
Teachers = priesthood
Politics = divide-and-conquer tactic employed to keep slaves fighting amongst themselves for additional corporate priveleges granted at the expense of other slaves
Elections/Voting = ritual by which slaves grant legitimacy to the corporation/provides the illusion that hides the owner-slave relationship
Govt debt = current claims on future cororate profits, which will diminish future slaves’ allowance
Prison = disobedient slaves put in cages as punishment and a warning to other slaves (who get to pay for the disobedient slaves to be caged) to not get too uppity
Mainstream media = corporate public relations department

Dead on!