Exceptionalist and techno-utopian corporations are privately owned and rooted primarily in soft-power industries. Their smart power lies in their ability to mobilize quasi-religious myths and scientific imaginaries, rather than serving as instruments of the state’s will. By contrast, the Statist corporation functions as the visible right hand of the state’s grand strategy. Typically majority- or wholly state-owned, it acts as a direct extension of national security policy, concentrated in hard-power industries where corporate strategy is deliberately subordinated to geopolitical objectives.