A few tweaks to the phrasing and you’ve basically described all nation state behavior and the entire history of human attempts at “society”.
Power brokers control the activity and discourse of the populace. Ignore the rules for personal enrichment (the US Congress and others pass rules for us [ banning insider trading] but not them).
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-demolish-its-jus...