With the advent of the space race, corporations began vying for rights to create the first spaceship to carry a human into orbit. After that, it was who was going to create the escape pods, and lunar lander for when they eventually went to the moon. The list continued to grow as the fever for the race overtook every country.

Under those circumstances, the various governments couldn’t risk creating their own agencies to act as an oversight umbrella. Two other countries had tried similar things and promptly had people and companies leave.

India had tried to restrict everything to their own agency, only to lose seventeen corporations and three million people in the span of a week.

Seeing how badly they had screwed up, the United States quickly reversed course on their own secret plans to do the same thing with NASA. Instead, they welcomed each of the seventeen corporations and their employees with open arms. They changed their policy to the launchpads all belong to us, and we want to be consulted, but that was it. NASA would, of course, keep working on their own projects for the government.

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The second country that screwed up was Egypt. They had been trying to enter the major leagues, in regard to countries, and had seen this as their chance.

While not as oppressive as India's, their policies were still too stringent for the likes of most corporations. More so since they announced them weeks after many other countries had revealed their policies. They wanted to be consulted on every little decision, creating a quagmire of bureaucracy that would have slowed progress to a crawl.

In the end, like India, most corporations chose to flee. Those who did stay, however, fought for and eventually won much better policies and control over their projects. In the end, Egypt was the first corporation-controlled country, and the politicians had handed it to them on a golden platter, all in the name of progress.