What kind of mental model breakage made you put "a citizen" into a position of an unaccountable megacorporation in your analogy?
Those rules are not the same as those for individuals.
That is precisely what it means to say that one person, with a certain amount of resources, can do things that a group of people, with the same amount of pooled resources, is forbidden from doing.
Lord Templeman, law lord, in Hazell v Hammersmith and Fulham summarized the law thusly:
> That report[Case of Sutton's Hospital], although largely incomprehensible in 1990, has been accepted as "express authority" that at common law it is an incident to a corporation to use its common seal for the purpose of binding itself to anything which a natural person could bind himself and to deal with its property as a natural person might deal with his own