Everyone's Got Something Scarce...
While the Middle East has control over a lot of oil, we (the United States) certainly seem to have a lot of control over IP address allocations. It’d be interesting to see if IP address allocations ever take a foothold in global politics and relations. As silly as it sounds, who would have thought oil would have done the same thing 100 years ago?
And yes, I know about IPv6. I wouldn’t bet my money on seeing IPv6 replacing IPv4 globally before we’re off oil entirely…