They are all corporations subject to operate under a government and within a state. Very few of those, and due to their federation through banking/financing, can become more powerful than governments and dictate back what they do. Their interests as capitalists and the capitalist state, is mutual against those who threaten this dominance.
Then we have states that act as satellites of another, they are not equal, and their agencies feed the satellite agencies.
Tic Toc is better!