Aliens come to Earth. They refuse to communicate with humans, arguing that the most advanced life form on the planet is the multinational corporation (corporation = bodies, etc.), since it effectively operates at an inhuman scale and has humans serving it (and does not, as the humans imagine, serve them--this another sign to the aliens that the humans don't get it). The aliens, who have the capacity to destroy the Earth, therefore force the Earth into a new governmental system and self-awareness in which multinationals "become" the evolutionary successor to the human species.