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* In Robert Asprin's ''[[Phule's Company]]'' series, the main character hands someone a credit card, and it is noted that that particular 'level' (gold, silver, platinum, etc) of credit card is usually used for the purchase of entire ''corporations''.
* Unattached Lensmen in "Doc" Smith's ''[[Lensman]]'' series are given unlimited authority to draw upon the government budget to fund their activities. And when they say 'unlimited', they ''mean it''. If a Gray Lensman wants to drop the entire GDP of several planets on buying himself a personal war fleet, all he has to do is sign for it and the check will clear the bank without hesitation. There is no oversight in this process at all (beyond the minimum auditing necessary to ensure that the signature is valid, of course); the only thing that can even review the actions of a Gray Lensman is the assembled ruling council of the galaxy itself, and unless someone crashes the entire treasury and/or creates some other kind of disaster large enough to be brought to the Galactic Council's attention, nobody will even bother to check.
** It's actually to the point that Gray Lensman are not paid a salary of any kind despite being active-duty military officers; it is presumed that should a Gray Lensman actually need money, he'll simply help himself to however much he feels he needs.
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