“The best way to fool the people was delay passage of lobbyist-packed legislation until the last minute so that nobody really knew what just happened to the wallet/purse or who got a knife in the back,” wrote Honourable Shirupenski on the cover of Terraform Corp’s annual business report in the year 2376, commemorating the end of the last political-based chamber of elected officials.  “From now on, you vote with your Milky Way tokens!”

Shirupenski laughed at the fact that, with the end of the concept of “governments,” all taxes collected by Terraform Corp stayed in the coffers of Terraform Corp, allocated to communities based on sales forecast needs for distribution centers, call centers, training centers, transportation systems, and online/brick-and-mortar shopping centers, rather than on wasteful social needs concocted by legislators keen on getting elected.

Communism, democracy, socialism, republicanism – these political terms had all but vanished from the modern language.

Opposition was alive and well and constantly reborn for every minigeneration, to give Terraform Corp 100% coverage of the solar system’s physical and mental needs.

Shirupenski gave thanks to ancestors and descendants, both natural and artificial, for making this moment complete.

All states of energy in this universe had been given a useful purpose.

The time was now.

Shirupenski pressed a button and disappeared into an adjoining thread of a nearby universe, carrying out a long tradition set by the founders of Terraform Corp many centuries ago.