> If there were automated ways to create a corporation and give it legal personhood, along with an offshore bank account, the possibility of the emergence of self-sustaining autonomous corporations may become more of a certainty.

Take a look at the [DAO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...) concept. These are currently being built and deployed on the Ethereum platform. Sounds like a real world version of what you are theorizing.