Denationalization

Privatization on its grandest scale. This is what happens when the government of a nation sells an asset to private investors. Privatization can occur on a state, local, municipal, or national level.

For example, if the U.S. government were to sell Death Valley National Park for one millllllllion dollars to Dr. Evil, who swears he'll maintain it as public space and definitely not build an underground secret lair, that would be denationalization. Think: no longer a part of...the nation. Duh.