They weren't a state group, they actually got sovereign powers for themselves. This is perhaps it makes them what has been called er a kind of company state approach. Even though they have shareholders, they are acting almost like a state within a state. And then when they are outside of european waters, they really are the state. They start demand ing ar that people other foreign ships eventually have to salute their ships and this sort of thing,. as if they are reallya sovereign national power. But i think it's important to get it in at this stage. How this, how original this was in this is a massive enterprise coming out of a small, but powerful and rich state.

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