MERCANTILISM: Home Country - You have two cows. The government taxes your sale of the milk, to fund the Colonial Marines.
MERCANTILISM: Colonial Edition - You have two cows. The Colonial Marines shoot them.
MAFIAISM - You have two cows. One cow gets sick. You fail to pay your neighborhood protection. You now have one healthy cow, one sick cow, and two broken legs.
GECKOISM - You have two cows. Your broker convinces you to buy into a larger farm network. The incorporated farm turns out to be massively short on cows and long on debts, right as the network's president and your broker disappear. The FCC promises to get right on finding out what happened, ten to twenty years from now.
OTHER MAFIAISM - Two people in the room are cows. You don't know who they are. They might even be you.
IMPERIUMISM - You have two groxes. Milking them is an arduous affair worthy of legend. But not nearly as arduous as all these crappy cybernetic limbs, that really threatening guy with the pistol, and the robotic space zombies you've been conscripted to fight. The groxes are a pretty small affair, really.
The more I learn about feudalism, the better it sounds. This is remarkable, since the opposite is true of every other system of government or economical theory.
I keep saying these things, and nobody ever listens to me.