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One Nation Under Copyright

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One Nation Under Copyright	comment	A MegaCorp is often a large, shadowy organization with a power base and structure that rivals even The Government. When you take it one step further, with the Mega Corp actually being the government during their Day of the Jackboot, you get One Nation Under Copyright, or a "corporate state." Essentially, a corporate state is a government run and organized like a business. At the top is typically a board of executives (more likely than not corrupt in fiction, though perhaps with a few honest ones placed here and there) which makes all the decisions; for the common people, the terms "citizen" and "customer" (or perhaps "employee" is more accurate) are more or less interchangeable. Some may actually have a form of quasi-democratic government, allowing all shareholders a certain number of votes proportional to the number of shares the voter owns (the common citizen is likely defined as someone who owns only a few shares in this case). It's not uncommon for corpocracies in fiction to wield military power too; conflicts between competing corporate states can eventually spill over into Corporate Warfare of truly epic proportions. One Nation Under Copyright may employ Law Enforcement, Inc., or even own them outright as a subsidiary. If taken to the extreme by the government owning everything, this raises the question: "What's the difference between these and Dirty Commies?" Some might argue that this is the whole point. This ideaâ€”that "business runs government" and "government runs business" are basically the sameâ€”is at the heart of many, many populist and/or agrarian movements since at least the 19th century, e.g. G. K. Chesterton's "Distributism". For when a corporation or other body has all the power and sway of a country without the actual country, see N.G.O. Superpower. See Company Town for a smaller-scale version where a town is owned by a single company. Subtrope of Privately Owned Society. Very common in the Cyberpunk genre. If the story is set 20 Minutes into the Future, then it more likely than not takes place in either a Divided States of America or Japan. Not to be confused with Disney Owns This Trope, which is specifically about copyrights and trademarks (though the two may overlap). The Banana Republic trope is named after the United Fruit Company's string of puppet nations in South America (see the Real Life folder below), and many fictional examples of that will be mundane (and extremely unpleasant) examples of this trope as well. Examples
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_104b5e68	comment	In The Pendragon Adventure, Blok functions like this on Quillan. They own everything, even art.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_1218c5a4	comment	In Killjoys the star system known as The Quad is entirely owned by the Company, the MegaCorp that runs the system and is its government. Ownership of stock in the company is proportional to the amount of ancestral land one owns in Qresh, the central planet.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_12bc81c8	comment	Civilization: Call to Power has a futuristic form of government called "Corporate Republic". In-game history noted that the gradual collapse of modern governments forced corporations to step in and maintain vital infrastructure and services or risk major losses.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_16c6bff	comment	The world in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank is run by these.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_193287c8	comment	In Subnautica, the Alterra Corporation that you work for is an interstellar "trans-gov", a transport corporation that bought out the functions of government a long time ago, and treats its citizens as employees, compensated and promoted by merit but ultimately owing everything they use back to the corporation... including, apparently, all the natural resources on 4546B that you harvest for your own survival, which you will be billed for upon your return to civilization (PDA: "Your current total stands at 3,000,000 credits")note If you survive, you become the first employee ever to rack up a debt of one trillion. Several PDA's also indicate that even personal relationships are treated as business contracts, with affection and time spent together being treated as commodities to be negotiated and traded.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_1de234dc	comment	When the Empire of New Britain Isles is first encountered by the Destroyermen, they quickly find out that Governor-Emperor Gerald McDonald has long been under the thumb of the Honourable New Britain Company, with the company, essentially, running things. Not only is the company run by Corrupt Corporate Executives but the company's CEO equivalent is actually a secret follower of the Holy Dominion's Religion of Evil. This changes quickly after the company reveals its true colors, and the practice of "obligations" (the company's bread and butter) is abolished.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_21ec74db	comment	Better Off Ted mentions this.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_2acb12c5	comment	X: The Teladi are a race of anthropomorphic lizard-people with an almost religious devotion toward profit. Their government is called the "Teladi Space Company" and their ruler's official position is CEO. Their current CEO is Isemados Sibasomos Nopileos IV, or just "Nopileos" and "Nopy" for short, who inherited it the Space Company from her grandmother, Isemados. In the backstory to X: Rebirth the Plutarch Mining Corporation's office in the Albion System staged a coup d'etat after the jumpgate network shut down, ousting the now-isolated Argon Federation government and military and setting themselves up as the government.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_2ae406c1	comment	Morgan Industries in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is supposed to be more or less one of these, but you can't directly make that choice in Social Engineering. The reason for that is likely that if you could, Morgan Industries could be a non-corporate state. As it stands, the available choices can be seen as representing different variations of One Nation Under Copyright (Police State: Politburo of Directors, Democracy: One Man, One Share (of common stock), Fundamentalist: God, Incorporated, Green: A green economy is a sustainable economy, Power: Power is the shortest path to wealth, Knowledge: Innovation drives capitalism).
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2 has the Hyperion corporation taking over Pandora, in the aftermath of the Atlas corporation's collapse. The Pre-Sequel mentions in a presentation that the founders of Hyperion managed to destroy the central government of humanity, which led to the other corporations to rise and become galactic empires in their own right.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_346ee2d1	comment	The world in Tekken (2010) is divided into eight massive conglomerates.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_38c57aa2	comment	The Eberron setting for Dungeons & Dragons has the Dragonmarked Houses, which are explicitly by treaty not nations, though in effect they amount to a separate set of nations that's not based on territory but on some field of commerce on which each of them holds a virtual monopoly. The treaty forbids house members from holding (traditional) titles of nobility or even owning land, though several of the houses do so in all but name, and high-ranking house members are essentially treated as nobility. In essence, fantasy Mega Corps.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_3ae518ad	comment	In the future world of Idiocracy, fictitious brand "Brawndo" purchased the FDA and the FCC, and used their position to replace water with their product. If you look closely at the American flag, each of the stars is actually the logo of Carlâ€™s Jr. Also, the red stripes are actually red text reading, â€œThe following companies are proud sponsors of the United States of Uhmerica. Carlâ€™s Jr., Costco, Cavalcade, Flaturin, Tarrlyton, Ronaise, Buttfuckers, Nastea, Bonerax, Brawndo, Acne Insurance.â€� Possibly, these companies own parts of the U.S. government in the same way that Brawndo owns the FDA and FCC.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_3caeeb6f	comment	SimCity gives the player this option with OmegaCo in Cities of Tomorrow. The goal is to create and sell as much omega as possible to various factories and commercial businesses, and eventually have residents buy robots and subscribe for the omega deliveries. However, it just doesn't stop there, as you also get to buyout Megatowers and entire cities in hopes to improve the bottom line. This means that a player can literally take over a whole chunk of the region under OmegaCo. Even the less futuristic specializations (such as drilling for oil and running casinos) work around with idea that the corporations are a part of city government, meaning the player isn't just a mayor of the city, but also CEO of their very own corporations.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_3d852a02	comment	In The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Golden Rule space habitat is run by the Golden Rule Corporation, which is the law there. The General Manager of the station can pretty much do what he wants there, although he is restrained by being a Villain with Good Publicity and feels he can't just kill someone without a good excuse. Failure to pay your air tax will, however, result in being thrown out the airlock (rumor has it that you are made into ground "pork" instead, though).
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_43b32597	comment	It is implied that the Moon in Dunno on the Moon is one. We never encounter any state official higher than a police chief, instead the very wealthy decide everything on an assembly resembling a stockholders' meeting. Of course, the Moon is a thinly-veiled satire on Western capitalism.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_4530c0ae	comment	In the novel Podkayne of Mars, the Venus Corporation controlled the entire planet Venus (and ran it like Las Vegas IN SPACE!).
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_454d0351	comment	Most of the Terra Novan population centers in Heavy Gear have conventional governments, but the Paxton Protectorate are an unusual Good Guy version. They lay claim on and defend a majority of Terra Nova's physical territory, the Badlands, although there's not much in the way of people or resources there. The government of the Protectorate is really just the board of the military-industrial Paxton Arms corporation, and they're still a more egalitarian bunch than the polar confederacies.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_47b1287b	comment	Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger has the late, unlamented RIAA... which became so abusive in securing its alleged intellectual property that an alliance of solar systems declared war on it.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_49a0a477	comment	Snow Crash has the United States being split into thousands of micronations, each one run by a different franchise company. Everything, from roads, to jails, to the Mafia, is now run like McDonald's. Neighborhoods are called burbclaves, a portmanteau of "suburban enclave", and act as autonomous nations with their own laws and currency set by the owning company. An American might encounter dozens of "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong" neighborhoods scattered about his nearby area just like any other business chain. Of particular note is the Mafia, which now operates out in the open as a legitimate business, complete with marketing slogan ("You've got a friend in the family!") and friendly mascot (the reigning don, Uncle Enzo).
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_49a87cb3	comment	The Shinra company from Final Fantasy VII. Ostensibly, there is a mayor to the city of Midgar, but his offices are in the company building, and he does not have any real power. His only real job is managing all of Shinra's archived files.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat: Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere features the start of this in motion, with country-sized corporations General Resources Ltd. and Neucom engaging in a global case of Corporate Warfare. Ace Combat Advance, which takes place seven years prior, has practically the entire world of Strangereal become this. Your role is to fight it off as a pilot for one of the few countries that still exist. While you ultimately don't succeed, you are able to wipe General Resources' attack dog army out and prevent them from being the sole corporation in Electrosphere.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_4f1098ae	comment	Hellsing Ultimate Abridged ends with America becoming one of these, on the grounds that since the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were people, it was decided at some point that they could run for president. Apparently, President Walt-Disney-Pepsi-Comcast has done wonders for the economy, given that it IS the economy.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_5052ab17	comment	Mirror's Edge Catalyst: The nation of Cascadia is ruled by an executive board of business owners known as the Conglomerate, made up of thirteen ruling families. Those thirteen businesses run absolutely everything. The populace is placated by the promise that if they work really hard, they can be promoted to better positions, or even (in extraordinary cases) get adopted into one of the families. While this does happen, it's only to an extremely lucky few, and common citizens have essentially no personal freedoms, privacy, or rights.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Civilization: The Civilization V expansion Brave New World added Venice as a playable civilisation. They are unique in being unable to build or capture settlers and so can't expand normally, but are able to buy city states instead. Civilization: Call to Power has a futuristic form of government called "Corporate Republic". In-game history noted that the gradual collapse of modern governments forced corporations to step in and maintain vital infrastructure and services or risk major losses. Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Spiritual Successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri below, features an Expy of Morgan Industries called the American Reclamation Corporation.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_59da62aa	comment	The eponymous city in Fallout: New Vegas is run by (seemingly immortal) pre-nuclear apocalypse business executive and Howard Hughes Homage Mr. House, who describes himself as the territory's "president, CEO, and sole proprietor". House's primary goal is to bring the entire region under his control as an autocratic state capitalist society, but as concerning as that might sound to some, he's actually A Lighter Shade of Grey compared to the alternatives.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_5a160237	comment	Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Spiritual Successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri below, features an Expy of Morgan Industries called the American Reclamation Corporation.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe: The Corpus are a loose alliance of merchant clans and corporations united only by the pursuit of the almighty credit. They are the last legitimate government in the Origin System (the only other options are the fascist Grineer Empire and a number of primitive, unaligned tribes), but they spend more time cheating each other than actually getting things done.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_5e150650	comment	The Guild in Exalted is an aspiring one and in many respects a successful one. While they may not have complete legitimacy, in effect everyone may as well admit they rule the Scavenger Lands.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Jackson's Whole is a territorially interlocked group of conglomerates (the top rank of which are called Great Houses), most of which would range from semi-criminal to outright monstrous amongst the rest of the galaxy, each with different specialties.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_60570997	comment	The Maytec Consortium of S.S.D.D. owns the Californian government and claimed the entire planet Mars for mining (up until the anarchists showed up).
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Syndicate Worlds in The Lost Fleet series are run like a corporation. In fact, their command officers are actually called "executives". It gets to the absurdity that, when the "executive" of an obsolete "Syndic" space station is facing an entire Alliance fleet of modern (by necessity) warships, he calmly replies to the offer of surrender by citing a specific regulation that forbids surrender under any circumstances. All John Geary can do is gape at the man's stupidity and unwillingness to see the reality, showing that a good number of Syndic executives are typical bureaucrats. Their war with the Alliance is motivated by their desire to keep their own people in line, as the presence of a democratic nation is a threat to their dictatorial government. Not all Syndic CEOs are bad. Some are honest and good people who care about the people under them. However, none of them are in charge of anything larger than single world. When Geary interrogates a CEO, the executive reveals that he has been Reassigned to Antarctica for daring to file a protest about his company being bought out by a rival (the rival CEO having better connections in the Executive Council). Later volumes also make the point that the Alliance isn't a shining example of a healthy democracy itself after a century of all-out war.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_694aa414	comment	Pandora: First Contact has the Noxium Corporation, which has a monopoly on asteroid mining in the Solar System and brings that attitude to Pandora.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_69f6f5a3	comment	The Corporation RPG features a world run by five mega-corporations.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_71ac4d4a	comment	Just Cause 4: SolÃs is technically a free-market economy, but the only companies that are not tied up in enough red tape and arbitrary taxation to make operating in the country unfeasible just happen to be the ones owned and operated by the dictator Oscar Espinosa, who also happens to have dissolved the Armed Forces and Police and replaced them with a PMC called the Black Hand... that he also owns.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune is an example of a feudal society where noble titles are derived from ownership of shares in Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles (CHOAM, roughly translated as "The Corporation of Honest Profit Traders"), a MegaCorp that pretty much runs the Imperium's entire economy.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7588254f	comment	Continuum has The North American Union, an oligarchy of the most powerful Mega Corps on the continent, which at some point along the line bailed out the governments of the United States and Canada, taking over management of them.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: This is what Rapture ended up becoming. Turns out the man who built it, a staunch anarcho-capitalist who claimed to love personal liberty and free enterprise and thought of the poor and less fortunate as "parasites", was actually very quick to toss his ideals aside when someone started to out-compete his business; his solution, of course, was to forcibly seize all the businesses that got too profitable for their own good. Thanks, Andrew Ryan, you cheap bastard.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_785595ec	comment	Fallout (2024); It's revealed that Vault-Tec and their business partners around the world secretly instigated the Great War so they could rule over the new civilization that followed. In the series proper, they had a hand in destroying the New California Republic as it was growing too big and prosperous for their liking, and have their sights set on other outcroppings of civilization that have arisen in the Wasteland.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_794d9734	comment	Mutant Chronicles has MegaCorp's being the dominant force in solar system, and have replace nations as forms of governance. Each of mega corp controls entire planets save the Luna Earths moon, which maintains independence from them. Mishima controls Mercury, Bauhaus controls Venus, Capitol controls Mars, and Imperial controls the asteroid belt.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: The whole planet of Noveria is a conglomerate of corporations. The planet is exempt from all but the the Citadel's most anti-catastrophic laws. Corruption is rampant and generally ignored as long as it doesn't impede regular business. Also arguably the volus species, which are like the Ferengi but with morals. Interestingly, the volus find the idea of parents "owning" their children to be absurd, which is why they associate by clan rather than family. A variant in the turians, who are instead of a nation corporation are a nation military, to the point the advancement in military rank is an advancement as a citizen as well (though non-military jobs are not lesser or looked down upon).
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_79953e	comment	Ace Combat Advance, which takes place seven years prior, has practically the entire world of Strangereal become this. Your role is to fight it off as a pilot for one of the few countries that still exist. While you ultimately don't succeed, you are able to wipe General Resources' attack dog army out and prevent them from being the sole corporation in Electrosphere.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: As an After the End Cyberpunk Dystopia, the government in the setting is The Federation of various Mega Corps. There are officially five of them in charge of the Corporate Government at any given time, and it's said that which five those are shifts over time due to shifts in power. Kugamayama City is a Company Town for Sakashita Heavy Industries, who also manage the Fictional Currency aurum. Kugamayama with its Urban Segregation is designed for a Dungeon-Based Economy of reverse-engineering Lost Technology from Neglectful Precursors known as the Old World to whom monsters are actually ancient security systems. The government takes an extremely harsh view on debt (Indentured Servitude is common, and the default punishment for crossing them). They treat slum dwellers as Cannon Fodder and serve them food that's radioactive or Mystery Meat filled with harmful Nanomachines to test if they're safe to sell. They're also frequently engaging in one Government Conspiracy after another, including the frequent False Flag Operation of each MegaCorp attacking one another.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7c802b66	comment	In Brazil, Central Services functions both as (and like) a totalitarian government and a corporate monopoly. Due to its bureaucratic and grossly inefficient nature, some viewers don't get this aspect clearly, especially the Misaimed Fandom amongst the American right-wing.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7dad3a85	comment	The Consortium in the series Total Recall 2070 is a conglomerate of six multi-national incredibly powerful companies that basically rule over certain colonies (like Mars), and even the government finds hard to keep them in check.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7de8951a	comment	In Classic Traveller a number of planets were controlled by corporations. Because of the way Traveller stats were set up, the corporate planets were most likely to be small, low-population planets, more of a company town or trading post than a full-fledged corporate republic. The founder of the Third Imperium was originally CEO of a mercantile corporation, though he was later named Grand Duke of the Sylean Federation, and he used the company's economic might to expand it into the Imperium.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7efcefbb	comment	The Trade Federation in Star Realms, which rules Earth and its nearby colonies. The organization itself was a development resulting from corporations supplanting traditional government institutions. In game, the Federation focuses on gaining Trade points and increasing Authority, and less on Combat like the other factions.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_7fcbd3e	comment	In the Mystara D&D setting, the Minrothad Guilds are essentially a MegaCorp, with each individual island constituting a different "division" of the company and the service-guilds operating as corporatized government bureaus.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_80e838cd	comment	In Tachyon: The Fringe, the GalSpan sector of space is wholly owned by the Galactic Spanning Corporation. The other corporations are not shown to be as expansive, although they may or may not own some colonies in other sectors. While the Bora are typically portrayed as La RÃ©sistance to GalSpan's encroachment, their official name is the Bora Mining Guilds, implying a corporate state.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_81692f99	comment	Also arguably the volus species, which are like the Ferengi but with morals. Interestingly, the volus find the idea of parents "owning" their children to be absurd, which is why they associate by clan rather than family.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_8262c4b3	comment	The Han Solo Adventures: The Corporate Sector, where corporations own entire regions of space. In fact the government, the Corporate Sector Authority, is just an umbrella corporation owned by them jointly. They don't like competition from smaller business entities, perhaps unsurprisingly.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_84932d59	comment	The Kenny Chronicles: In Ferrets vs. Lemmings, the ferret government of Dook Island was founded as effectively a company town for Guy King's meat exports business.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations: The Korx would sell you their own mothers if they hadn't already sold them to someone else. They are replaced in the third game by the Iridium Corporation, who, while a species-wide business, are much more moral.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_8756259d	comment	Azure Striker Gunvolt: The Sumeragi Group is often said to be the de facto government of the country the game is set in, as it controls not only economy but also entertainment, logistics and security, particularly regarding Adepts.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_87a8ae8d	comment	Watch Dogs: Legion has this as its central premise. Albion and its allies in Blume and Carcani Medical have managed to suspend Parliament as well as institute a brutal police state. Their goals are also to milk the populace of as much money as possible.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_8980c62b	comment	Incorporated: By the 2060s, climate change and economic collapse have caused most governments (including the US) to all but collapse, leaving vast areas of their territory controlled by MegaCorp NGO Superpowers, who act as nations unto themselves.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_8db36f7	comment	In RoboCop, Omni Consumer Products's ultimate goal is to turn the movie's gritty and dystopic Detroit into "Delta City", effectively a city-state version of this trope, complete with people exercising their representative citizenship rights via the purchase of OCP shares.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_90e2f673	comment	Happened briefly in BattleTech between 3057 and 3081 the Word of Blake, which was a quasi-religious organization that maintained part of the Hyperpulse Generator network used for FTL communication. They drove Comstar, the organization they'd split from, off Terra, then began setting up the Word of Blake Protectorate, a region of space where they controled (directly or indirectly) all the planets. It only ended when they were destroyed at the end of the Word of Blake Jihad, a period of 14 years when they essentially declared war on everyone else. Happened even earlier than that. Although rare in the grand scheme of things, some planets were completely owned and operated by corporate entities. The most major examples of this are Irian and Hesperus II, both of which were legally owned and locally governed by the corporations that were headquartered on each note Irian Technologies on Irian and Defiance Industries on Hesperus II. In Irian's case, the company was granted direct representation in the Free Worlds League's Parliament because of their governing of the planet, while the CEO of Defiance was the de jure and de facto noble ruler of Hesperus II. It also helps that the only worthwhile thing on Hesperus II is the Defiance factory complex and the population of the world has never topped 500,000, and all that miniscule population are employees of Defiance. Also, this was the apparent de facto state of Terra since ComStar took it over in the 2700s, as the world was governed by the quasi-cult/telecommunications MegaCorp.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_91209b29	comment	The Vector corporation in the Xenosaga series fits this trope to a T. Almost to the degree of being ridiculous, given certain revelations in the third game such as the fact that Vector's CEO is the head of a religious organization hell-bent on Vector's destruction too.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_91f0110a	comment	Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere features the start of this in motion, with country-sized corporations General Resources Ltd. and Neucom engaging in a global case of Corporate Warfare.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_93e0d9e3	comment	In Jennifer Government, not only do corporate states run America, but every citizen takes the last name of their business. The heroine is a government agent; the villain, John Nike, works for Nike, and children take the last names of the corporation that owns their school. One editor writes: "The central point of the novel was that this was where we'd be eventually headed if deregulation continued the way it was going."
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_93f31be7	comment	In the backstory to X: Rebirth the Plutarch Mining Corporation's office in the Albion System staged a coup d'etat after the jumpgate network shut down, ousting the now-isolated Argon Federation government and military and setting themselves up as the government.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_95226eb6	comment	Cyberpunk: The NUSA. Maybe. It's complicated. The rump USA that only really controlled the eastern seaboard attempted to nationalize Militech in the aftermath of the Fourth Corporate War, when the corporation was still weak. However, the corporation turned out to be Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth, and managed to insert a large number of people whose primary loyalty was to the corporation in key positions in the US federal government and civil service. The New United States of America is on the rise, but no-one on the outside is quite sure whether it's the elected officials or the Militech Board of Directors calling the shots, or if such a distinction can be meaningfully made in the first place. The fact two high level executives of Militech are named president of the NUSA by 2077, the nationalization happening under the former and with the latter retiring from Militech to replace her after 50 years in office, there's probably no need to.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_9994a14f	comment	Buy 'n' Large from WALLâ€¢E is one of these. Dollar bills have the B&L logo on them, and the CEO broadcasts messages from the Oval Office. This is merely heavily implied in the movie; the DVD extras confirm it.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_a1951fc2	comment	In We Are All PokÃ©mon Trainers, the fanmade Angela region based on southern California is more or less ruled by corporations.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_a1970a85	comment	In Fading Suns the Guilds, while they're not quite encyclopedical example of MegaCorp, rule over several planets and own pieces of land on most of the rest. The game's background mention precise examples in the game-universe's history. The Earth-based First Republic was really a governmental figure-head, with a number of MegaCorps holding the only real power. After the fall of the First Republic, both era known as The Diaspora and to a lesser extent during the Second Republic, some planets were openly owned and operated by corporate entities.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_a4d21f61	comment	In the series Daas Kapital, the Shitzu Tonka corporation runs the entire world. Their motto is "Another day of global peace where nothing much happens. No war, no inflation, no violence, no rainforest. That's a Shitsu Tonka day."
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_aacd24cb	comment	The little-mentioned Kel-Morian Combine in StarCraft is controlled by a bunch of mining guilds. The Combine worlds were annexed by the Confederacy (except for Moria itself, who joined up with the Dominion upon its formation) some years before the first game, but broke away from the Dominion following the Brood War. Rory Swann, the Hyperion's engineer, is from a former Combine world; he lost his arm in a rebellion against them. The novel Heaven's Devils takes place during the war between the Combine and the Confederacy from the viewpoints of Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay. Both sides are shown to be just as corrupt, and the war shows the first uses of "resocialized" criminals as Space Marines.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_b212951e	comment	The Outer Worlds: In the Halcyon system, the settingâ€™s Mega-Corps have effectively become governments, to the point that discrimination is based on things like which corporation you were born into. Word of God describes it as a world where the robber barons of the late 19th/early 20th century never died out and now every town is a Company Town.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_b27fdd6d	comment	In Catch-22, M&M Enterprises is set up as a way for the mess officer, Milo Minderbinder, to bilk the US Government out of quite a lot of money. He then goes on to make an absolute fortune monopolizing trade in the Mediterranean. Eventually, he has a private army and air force, and is paid quite a lot by the Germans to bomb a US air base. Milo was supposed to be tried as a criminal, but all charges were dropped as soon as the brass saw how much money there was in bombing their own men. But hey, at least everybody owns a share! The film sums it up quite well when Milo hears about the death of a brother officer killed by Milo's raid.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_b2ad762f	comment	Agent G by C.T. Phipps has this as a downplayed trope with the aftermath of the Eruption. The world's largest corporations are granted nation-state status so they can help rebuild the global economy with its facilities treated like embassies and its workers having dual citizenship. In practice, it's just to increase their power as well as protect them from liability.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_b39eade3	comment	Rollerball. The world seems to be divided into city states each of which controls a major corporate area. Houston, the protagonist team's home town is, no big surprise in charge of Energy.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_b3f3b0b7	comment	Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: Zetacorp is a MegaCorp, but it's basically indistinguishable from being the main body of government of Zeta, since Zazz is the president of both the state and the corporation. Any attempt to defy Zetacorp is considered treason against the state itself, and even attempting to retire too early from Zetacorp is punishable by death in Zazz's mind.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_b63df301	comment	Pay Me, Bug!: The backstory has the Free Trade Baronies starting life as this. That was so long ago that they've since evolved into essentially standard governments, but there are still a few throwbacks to their history.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_bbd25dac	comment	In Friday, the Shipstone MegaCorp has grown so powerful in a balkanized world that the heroine starts to think of them as the only effective government.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun these are incredibly common, as AA- and AAA-rated Megacorps can often become so vital to a small nation's economy that they practically take over the whole thing. Even if nominally controlled by a government, these nations have a majority of their GDP provided by a single corporate entity and thus tend to be all but Puppet States to these corporations. The Pueblo Corporate Council was founded as One Nation Under Copyright. All PCC citizens are awarded one share of non-transferable stock as a birthright, and voting rights are allocated logarithmically, based on how much stock a person holds (two votes for ten shares, three for 100, etc). Aztlan, what used to be Central America and parts of the former U.S., is essentially a subsidiary of the MegaCorp Aztechnology. While Aztlan is technically its own nation, Aztechnology's rights and duties are written into Aztlan's constitution. The Chinese Canton Confederation and the free city of Hong Kong are both run by Wuxing, inc in a collaboration with the Red Dragon syndicate and their dragon benefactor. The Free City of Berlin, following a few decades as an anarchist commune, was eventually taken over by Saeder-Krupp after a series of hostile takeovers using private armies to eject the anarchists.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: The Sharteshane King is just a figurehead bought and paid for by Jab Beadman of Beadman Industries who is the real power behind the throne and finagles its military to get rare materials and try to prevent wars that will reduce his clientele while supporting those whose fights have a chance of expanding the area where he can sell.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Reliable Excavation and Demolitions controls one half of the world. Builders League United controls the other half. The woman officiating the never-ending war between the two companies is the CEO of both of them... or at least, that was the original premise. They've abandoned this in favor of RED and BLU being effectively worthless ventures founded by a pair of dimwitted, feuding brothers using their wealthy father's land and money. The comic "Blood Brothers" cemented the companies/brothers' status as money sinks. However, this same update also introduced the co-op map Coaltown, which bears the markings of a company town (see Real Life below). A sign above a store states that it accepts "coal tokens only". The Administrator still controls the world through TF Industries, RED, BLU, and Mann Co., but RED and BLU's role has been moved away from. It may have something to do with Zepheniah Mann's will, but the will itself does not specify how the Administrator runs RED and BLU. The Mann Vs. Machine update (and subsequent update) finally gives us a clear picture of why the Administrator would ever want to rule the world by turning the world's worst two companies (and dumbest CEOs) into secret rulers of the planet: Australium either enhances the user's intelligence to supernatural levels, or when refined can provide immortality instead (as seen in Redmond, Blutarch, The Administrator, and Grayson). Zepheniah Mann's inheritance of companies included a f***-ton of Australium (or at least, the means to store the largest quantities of it safely and securely). DO THE MATH. Also, Grayson is more egotistic but also much smarter than his two idiot brothers (but still an idiot) so he cuts out the middlemen and makes Mann Co. itself the NGO Superpower.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_c399cd39	comment	Much of the inner solar system in Eclipse Phase is governed by the Planetary Consortium, which is a confederation of the major inner-system corporations. Most of the major city-states and habitats have officially democratic governments, but they're really just puppets of the Consortium.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_c403b4a3	comment	In Ground Control, all humans worlds are, technically, under corporate control (though Earth is a bit of a special case as it's not run by one corporation, but instead separated into territories run by the various corporations who handle Earth-wide issues through a common council). This also applies to the worlds run by the Order of the New Dawn, since they are officially registered as a MegaCorp (for political reasons). The Crayven Corporation is one of the biggest ones out there and owns many colonies in both the Inner and Outer Spheres. By the time of the sequel, all the old Mega Corps are gone, but the Intergalactic Trade Guild is stated to be a corporate alliance of several Outer Sphere worlds who remain neutral during the war between the Terran Empire and the Northern Star Alliance.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_c77b15f0	comment	In Crusader, the WEC arose from the merger of the economic bodies that themselves took over the running of the various continents from more conventional governments when they toppled or became too weak. interestingly, the WEC actually claims to not be a government, merely a steward for the powers of government, even as it goes about cheerfully tightening its grip on the ways, the means, the sources, and the consumers of production.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_ca445c09	comment	Let's Ramble With Rae: Oligopolmart's MO is to buy entire planets.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_cb1e7bad	comment	The Girl From Monday: The future US has come to be ruled by a huge corporation called Triple M, which structures everything for maximizing profit and punishes dissent harshly.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_cbf0ee94	comment	The Caldari State, one of four playable races in EVE Online, is a conglomeration of Mega Corporations. They outright call themselves a corporate state, and the company rivalries are so deep-seated the only thing that really bands them together is the fight to reclaim their homeland. Since the death of Otro Gariushi and the recapture of Caldari Prime, the glue holding the State together has increasingly become Tibus Heth and his underlings.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_cc1d0693	comment	Space Truckers begins with the Corrupt Corporate Executive Saggs in the middle of negotiations with the World Government to buy out the whole planet. In case the negotiations fall through, he has a backup plan in the form of killer robots to force the planet under his heel. At the end of the film, the protagonists find out that Saggs is now the President of the World after privatizing the government. He's then Hoist by His Own Petard, so we're not sure what happens to Earth after that.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_d4263e4c	comment	In the Wild Cards series there are brief mentions of a space-faring conglomerate known as "The Network" which is described at one point as "a form of capitalism more rapacious than anything you can imagine". From the mentions, it appears that this is how The Network operates.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_d43d9cab	comment	GiganTech in Armed Police Batrider effectively has Zenovia Island as its own city-state. And testing ground for black market weapons. And power supply for the really energy-hungry weapons.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_d4f11a60	comment	Elite features some planets that are corporate states. The sequel, Frontier, also has these; they vary from reasonably civilized places to pirate-infested systems which are happy to trade slaves and battlefield weapons to anyone visiting.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_d5b84b32	comment	In Spore's space stage, depending on how you ended the other stages, you can achive the "trader" philosphy which changes your planet to revolve around captalistic trade. You can encounter other planets with the trader philosphy as well.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_de595ef1	comment	In the Alternity Star*Drive setting, the Stellar Nations Austrin-Ontis Unlimited, Rigonmur Star Consortium, Starmech Collective and Voidcorp are this, and Insight might be as well (it isn't outright stated, but they did begin as a division of Voidcorp [then again, they also hate Voidcorp...]). They vary in corporateness from Voidcorp, whose pursuit of profit leads them into things that are not just unethical and against the Galactic Concord, but also questionably profitable in a long-term perspective, like selling out humanity to the Externals, to Austrin-Ontis Unlimited, who is, for all intents and purposes, a bog-standard republic that just happens to call its citizens 'shareholders' and its president 'CEO'.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e06ce4f	comment	In Equestria Divided one of the factions trying to take over Equestria is House Whitegold which is a combination of rich nobles, merchant guilds and Private Military Contractors.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e0b66623	comment	An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government: Guatemala Incorporated is the result of United Fruit taking direct control of the country and absorbing all its government's assets into itself. Though that said, it left private property alone, and there's a limited democracy in place (all citizens are shareholders from birth, can buy and sell more shares, and have a vote-per-share in choosing the Board of Directors, who in turn elect appoint other leadership positions). The Federation of Sovereign Voluntarists, on the other hand, is a dictatorial state in all but name. The remnants of the Republic of South Africa, which makes up of the South African Defense Force, becomes Private Military Contractors and earned the moniker "South Africa Incorporated." The French Outremer Company spearheaded its universe's French colonial empire, which has territory in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. After the French monarchy is overthrown, they flee to the Company's headquarters in the equivalent of Cape Town, where the kings became hereditary heads of the Company as well, effectively merging the colonial and corporate entities into one, which has lasted to the present.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e11715a2	comment	The Perfect Run: The Dynamis Corporation is the closest thing to a government left in post-war Europe. There is literally no mention of any other legal authority in New Rome, from a mayor to a president. Enrique Manada repeatedly insists that they are the only rule of law left, and compared to the literal criminal empire, they certainly look good. Still, multiple people point out that having one corporation rule everything is clearly not the best solution in the long term.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, a possible government Civic for oligarchies is "Corporate Dominion", with the description stating that your empire is a MegaCorp that has supplanted the traditional state. A DLC added actual Corporate star empires, which have their own set of civics.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS The Terradyne setting is named after the first off-planet MegaCorp, founded to slip through a loophole in the Outer Space Treaty, particularly Articles II and IV: no nation can claim extraterrestrial territory, no national military can operate in space. Good part; a corporation can hold territory and defend it from theft and/or destruction. Bad part; space colonists have no political rights, as they are effectively expatriate citizens - and subject to completely arbitrary taxes and tariffs. Result: Space Cold War - the capitalist Terradyne colonists engaged in economic shenanigans and covert intrigue with an increasingly socialist United Peoples of Earth. The "Stopwatch" Bad Future in GURPS Time Travel ... maybe. Government and industry are so interwound in its One World Order that it's no longer clear whether it's a communist state that nationalised everything or a free-market state where the Mega Corps took over. Basically it's whatever you don't want it to be, and may even change from one to the other as a result of actions in the past. (It's established that all timelines lead inevitably to the "Stopwatch" future or the good guys' "Timepiece" future.)
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e60954ea	comment	Armored Core: With the possible exception of AC 2 and its successor, Another Age, the world is dominated not by one, but multiple corporate states.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e6355bbc	comment	In the universe of The Longest Journey Saga, the world of Stark is run by the Syndicate, a conglomeration of megacorporations, complete with its own military/police force called the EYE.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e66a25a9	comment	Naruni Enterprises in Rifts, who are considered a major political power in the Three Galaxies setting. They have been known to equip entire planets with military gear... then repossess them if they don't pay up on time. Rifts features several of these, where a corporation is the replacement for a local government.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control II's Druuge of the Persei system take this trope to a ridiculous extent: The Crimson Corporation is not only a government substitute, but owns all the natural resources and inhabitants as well. Druuge who quit (or are fired from) the corporation are instantly found guilty of stealing "company property" (air) and are sentenced to death. Druuge who are no longer useful, cannot work, or are in debt are tossed into the reactors of the nearest power station to be used as fuel. Retirees can breathe at a reduced rate. Oh, and their religion basically amounts to a contract with their god, where they promise worship and conversion in exchange for a relatively static and good way of life and "at least one miracle".
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e7e37776	comment	The Blue Sun brand is omnipresent throughout Firefly, appearing on everything from coffee cans to neuroimagers; Word of Joss says that "practically half the government was Blue Sun." They're also hinted to have backed the government's mind-shattering experiments on River; she attacks the logos on their products in two different episodes, and the mysterious blue-gloved agents that pursue her may work for them.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e8622384	comment	Shangri-La: The Atlas Corporation, post-worldwide carbon tax, has effectively usurped control of Japan from the government by monopolizing carbon. They run the nation through Atlas Tower while forcing the poor people to struggle in the jungles of the ruined Japan, and the Prime Minister is basically a puppet. Ryoko Naruse, the CEO, drops the charade about halfway through when she takes the position of Prime Minister from him with no election, while still keeping her ownership of the company, and the people are powerless to stop the blatant conflict-of-interest.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_e8bca4f	comment	The Empire of the Star in the Eldraeverse, having evolved from mergers of private law providers in a previous Privately Owned Society. Becoming a citizen of the Empire requires buying a share in the Empire, though its' charter also prevents a citizen-shareholder from owning more than one share to prevent it from becoming a plutocratic oligarchy. Also, not uncommon in the Associated Worlds at large - most interstellar colonies start out run by a colonial corporation, and many of them never get around to replacing it.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_ea377bc0	comment	System Shock: The TriOptimum Corporation was de facto in charge of human civilization, until things went horribly wrong in the first game, leading to a revolution, the reinstatement of a representative government, and Tri-Op coming within a hairsbreadth of bankruptcy. The company managed to barely hang on by inventing Faster-Than-Light Travel.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_ea7635f4	comment	Deleted scenes and the novelization of Alien: Resurrection says that the Weyland Yutani Mega Corp from the previous movies was bought out by Wal Mart.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_ec91d418	comment	Lazarus takes place in a Feudal Future where society as we know it has collapsed and the families that controlled Mega Corps have become the new nobility of the Earth. The setting strongly embraces Black-and-Gray Morality, and the best that people living under the control of these families can hope for is benign neglect, and possible comfort if you make yourself useful to the future of a family, while the worst includes living in squalor as part of the brainwashed masses and being killed off by genetically engineered bioweapons or Super Soldiers if one of these families decides that the population has grown too large to be supported.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_ed86d97	comment	Blue Planet has the Incorporate, corporations who bought "failed states" after a global famine with the consent of the UN to restore governance in those areas. They are run like corporations, but have their own armies, issue their own money and sit on the GEO (UN replacement) council just like nations.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_eeac804a	comment	In spite of the names "Universal City", Californa and "Universal Studios Hollywood", Universal City is an uncorpated area owned by Universal Pictures where Universal Studios "Hollywood" is located and has the only government-funded fire station located on private property, which was even changed from LA County Fire Department Station 60 to LACFD Station 51 in the mid 90s due to LACFD Station 51 being the setting of Emergency!, in spite of it being filmed at LACFD Station 127.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_ef6be09c	comment	Giant Ojou-sama seems to run on a system of corporate feudalism where zaibatsus own and perform all of the governmental functions for entire cities, if not nations. However, since this series is a light-hearted Giant Woman Fanservice manga, the usual downsides of such a system don't get highlighted. Indeed, it works out pretty well for them because while this means the titular protagonist Oriko Fujidou was given total control of a city as a birthday present when she was only four years old, much of the focus is on how she has both the ability and the dedication to make the happiness and safety of the citizens her top priority. The only real problem that seems to come up is the frequent attacks from giant alien Invaders.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_f10a65b	comment	In Legends of Tomorrow, by the mid-22nd century, the nation-states of old will no longer hold power, their role having been taken by various corporations, the largest of which is the Kasnia Conglomerate, which uses Atom-derived Attack Drones as its police force. It's also mentioned that, at some point, S.T.A.R. Labs takes over the control of Central City, implying it becomes an economic power again, despite the whole "exploding particle accelerator" fiasco.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_f4fa693a	comment	In Quantum Vibe, most nation-states have collapsed and "Mercorps" run most of society, even old Terra is split between two Mercorps (based in China and Brazil). Pretty much the only government still active is the Lunar Republic, and even that is beholden to Omega-Tek.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_f74b5f80	comment	According to background materials and the official tie-in CD, the Brakiri in Babylon 5 are an example of this.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_fb9fefa6	comment	The backstory to Hc Svnt Dracones includes a war between the traditional nation-states and "Corptowns", privately built and owned cities that attracted residents by having fewer laws and better economies than nations. The war went poorly for the governments, until they decided to just nuke every Corptown on Earth and managed to set off one nuke on entirely-corporate Mars, in response someone unleashed a virus that infected Earth's nuclear silos and targeted every square inch of Earth's surface, not stopping the launches for six years. Now, the descendants of humanity on Mars, Venus, and Jupiter's moons all live in Corptowns owned by one of seven Mega Corps, even a few Corpnations.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_fc063da9	comment	The Space Merchants: The transnational advertising corporation the protagonist works for got their start by incorporating the entire country of India.
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One Nation Under Copyright / int_fccc35cc	comment	The Crusader Kings II expansion The Republic allows you to play as a merchant republic, which are modelled on the real-life Hanseatic League and other merchant states such as Venice.
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Chakona Space / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Eldraeverse / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
For Want of a Nail / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Generation P / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Heavy Object / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Legend Series / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Little Fuzzy / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Look to the West / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Malê Rising / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Overlord (2012) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Pay Me, Bug! / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Podkayne of Mars / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Poor Man's Fight / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Red Mars Trilogy / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Space Cadet (Rvbomally) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Sten / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Han Solo Adventures / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Lost Fleet / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Perfect Run / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
We'll Meet Again / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
GroundControl	seeAlso	One Nation Under Copyright
Marvel2099	seeAlso	One Nation Under Copyright
Matewan	seeAlso	One Nation Under Copyright
Ptitlenhy07uuq	seeAlso	One Nation Under Copyright
Specialist290	seeAlso	One Nation Under Copyright
Metallica (Music) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
For The Tyrants Fear Your Might (Roleplay) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Continuum / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Jericho (2006) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Killjoys / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Legends of Tomorrow / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Blue Planet (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Cyberpunk (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Eclipse Phase (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
GURPS Alternate Earths (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Hc Svnt Dracones (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
MERCS (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	One Nation Under Copyright
Mystara (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
SLA Industries (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Stars Are Fire (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Anbennar (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Anno Domini (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Armed Police Batrider (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Beyond Earth (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Carnivores (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Caveman2Cosmos (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Celestus (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Civilization: Beyond Earth (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Cookie Clicker (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Creeper World (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
CyberStorm (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Deadlink (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Distant Worlds (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
EVE Online (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Elite (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Equestria at War (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Final Fantasy VII (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Firefall (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
G-Police (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Gratuitous Space Battles (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Homefront: The Revolution (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Horizon Forbidden West (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Jagged Alliance (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
King of the Castle (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Last Origin (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Mega City Force (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Old World Blues (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Oolite (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Pandora: First Contact (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Pride And Fall (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Red World (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
SaGa Frontier (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Soukyugurentai (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Star Control (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Starsector (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Surviving Mars (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
System Shock (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Tales of Xillia 2 (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Red Strings Club (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Watch Dogs: Legion (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Wing Commander (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
X: Rebirth (Video Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Portal (Visual Novel) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (Web Video) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Stampy's Lovely World (Web Video) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Templin Institute (Web Video) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Exterminatus Now (Webcomic) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Polcomp Ball (Webcomic) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Kenny Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Rap News (Website) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Disenchantment / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Space Truckers / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Pendragon Adventure / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Jericho / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Tech Infantry (Tabletop Game) / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright

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