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Privately Owned Society
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In The Future, Alternate History or simply somewhere apart from historical location, there exists a society where virtually everything is owned by the private sector, from the police to the fire department to the national park service, sometimes even to the military, courts and prisons. Depending on the views of the author on Capitalism, this may be presented in a variety of lights. A common trope in Cyberpunk fiction in general, given all the Mega Corps in charge of everything in many such settings. However, Cyberpunk settings often do not explain the precise laws used in their respective societies, so it's not always clear if everything is actually privately owned or if corporations just act as if they own everything, laws be damned. In many cases, the government is simply not mentioned, so it is not known if one exists, and if it does, whether it owns anything or has any power. Usually, it is a Straw Dystopia created by a nationalist, social liberal, conservative, socialist, communist, social/communitarian anarchist, or otherwise not anarcho-capitalist/classic-liberal/libertariannote Nationalists hate the idea of a nation-state being subordinated to non-national actors. Modern/Social liberals hate the idea that the state would not be powerful enough to protect people from abuses of power by private actors like corporations and criminal syndicates or to protect workers' rights. Conservatives are leery of unnecessary, unprecedented, and undesirable change - only conservatives who were also market liberals/libertarians might approve of such a society. Socialists hate the idea of an unequal society wherein the poor and weak are not looked after with compassion and kindness. Communists hate the idea of a state that is run for the benefit of the bourgeoisie and tramples upon the rights of the worker, but would remain hopeful that such a dystopia would lead to a (successful) revolution by the oppressed poor and lead to the end of Capitalism. Lastly, Social/Communitarian Anarchists hate the idea of any kind of social order that is in any way oppressive or removed from the basic goodness/decency of face-to-face interactions, as a society run by faceless corporations (with no oversight) would be. author. More rarely, it can be Utopia created by a libertarian, Objectivist, anarcho-capitalist, miniarchist, or otherwise pro-corporate author. One Nation Under Copyright is a subtrope where a single MegaCorp has privatized the whole of the society, up to and including The Government itself, thus taking the trope to its Logical Extreme. May be an N.G.O. Superpower. Compare and contrast Commie Land, the politicial and ideological opposite, and Alternate-History Nazi Victory, the Axis counterpart of this trope. Examples |
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In Subnautica, the Alterra Corporation, the Player Character's employers, is a "trans-gov," a political entity that controls one or more star systems and the phase gates required to travel between them. The citizens on its worlds are considered the corporation's employees, and Alterra insists that it has no legal obligation to care for them, but voluntarily provides services traditionally handled by democratically-elected governments. All off-planet trade must take place under the Alterra brand, but private enterprise is encouraged within Alterra space, and successful entrepreneurs have their businesses bought out by Alterra and thus earn their place on the company's Board of Directors. This corporate, hyper-capitalistic mindset even seems to extend to personal relationships, and one document in the game refers to love as another commodity to be traded the same as company stock. Even in a crisis situation, Alterra maintains that any resources its employees gather are company property, hence your PDA reacting to you mining your first diamond with a reminder that your balance with the company now stands at three million credits. And at the end of the game, when you escape that alien planet you crashed on, you're informed that you'll be allowed to land in Alterra space when you settle your outstanding balance of one trillion credits. | |
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Andor: Pre-Mor is a MegaCorp running several planets, which really only cares about its own bottom line and avoiding attracting too much Imperial attention. It ends up nationalized by the Imperials after their guard disobeys orders and makes an embarrassing mess on Ferrix. | |
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RoboCop (1987): It's hinted that Omni Consumer Products owns and operates the police department. It isn't mentioned, but it's a safe assumption that most other public services are run by them, too. At one point, when Clarence Boddinker asks Dick Jones (OCP's vice-president) if OCP can get him access to military hardware with which to deal with Robocop, Jones replies, "We practically are the military." | |
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Riki-Oh is all about this and why it's a bad idea. In the post-apocalyptic setting, all formerly government run programs from schools to prisons are privately owned. A dystopic example, as corruption and human rights violation abounds. Though considering, the Crapsack World they live in, they probably had no other choice, what with lack of funding due to nuclear holocaust. | |
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The sequel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, starts on a space station owned and managed by a private corporation, and we learn that Standard Oil now has its own senator. | |
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RoboCop 2: The plot revolves around OCP coming to the mayor to collect on a loan. Apparently, if the mayor doesn't pay up, the city of Detroit officially belongs to the company. While the mayor tries to appeal to the citizens, claiming that democracy will be gone, the chairman retorts that each citizen of the new Delta City will become an OCP shareholder and thus have a voice in the company. | |
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RoboCop 3 has OCP try to take over the city by force, firing the police and bringing its own private security force in. | |
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The country known as the Free Market in My Life at War. | |
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In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Number Two explains to Dr. Evil as he attempts to betray him and is is dropped into a furnace for his troubles (He gets better) that Virtucon has become more profitable than their villanious schemes that Number Two was planning to get a cover story in Forbes Magazine for it, and that there is no "world" to take over anymore. "It's only corporations." | |
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Rats, Bats and Vats has this, springing out of an attempt to create a socialist society Gone Horribly Wrong. Although technically, it's commonly owned and the vat-grown citizens or their heirs can buy a share after they're done paying the bill for growing and educating them. That, and interest. | |
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In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the moon is a penal colony, so the government has no interest in providing any services. Education involves the parents (if any) paying someone to tutor their child. Insurance of any kind is generally handled by bookies. There is very little law enforcement; generally crimes are handled by people just deciding to punish someone. | |
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In Final Fantasy VII, the Shinra Corporation own and runs everything, and we do mean everything. They have the only army in the world (there is talk about a war with Wutai in the past), are the only power suppliers in the world, the only space program ever, and they exert obvious political control over most cities and towns, especially in the first continent you start on. The capital city of Midgar is directly run by them and their HQ is the center of the city; as the mayor laments to you, his job is just a title. The bosses at Shinra seem to agree with him. Shinra's claim to fame (and dominance) seems to be that they control everything they manufactured in self-investment — which happens to be all the modern cities in the world (Midgar, Junon, Gold Saucer). All other communities tend to be small and largely agricultural. If the company wants to exert its control elsewhere, they have to do it through military might — which is brutally effective in places like Old Corel, but ineffectual to the pre-Shinra Midgar slums, where Shinra's police force is very fearful, runs the trains, and politely asks the player not to cause trouble. |
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The Satellite in The Supernaturalist was constructed in the midst of an environmental crisis by the Myishi Corporation as a new living space, with land there being sold with restrictive conditions on use to set up a private city state on the Satellite. | |
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Seito in Kamen Rider Build effectively becomes this after allowing Nanba Heavy Industries to take over their military. Later on, Nanba kills off their Prime Minister and steals his identity when he stops going along with Nanba's goals. | |
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In Road to 56, a mod for Hearts of Iron 4, the nation of Honduras can become one of two flavours of these. The first is where the country is taken over by the United Fruit Company and becomes the "Banana Empire". The other is that you can then overthrow the Fruit Company and turn the nation into the "Free Enterprise Zone" complete with the Black & Yellow ancap flag. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga, Jackson's Whole is like this. It's loathsome. | |
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The world of Borderlands is one. The governments of the planets fell in the Last Corporate War, where all the main weapons manufacturers attacked each other, and ascended to become actual ruling powers. | |
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2077 on Continuum is an example of this. The show avoids presenting it as an outright Crapsack World, but it's still not a terribly pleasant place for rather large numbers of people to live. However, the rebels opposing it are violent terrorists. | |
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Illium in Mass Effect 2 is an independent asari colony just outside the borders of Citadel Space. It has easy access to pretty much all the goods and services one finds in Citadel Space, but none of the laws and regulations. On the street you can hear people openly talking about large shipments of drugs, buying military weapons to join mercenary companies well known for their criminal activities, and buying stocks based on exploiting humanitarian disasters. All the advertisements from the loudspeakers either include health warnings or urgent recalls of products which of course never posed any danger to customers but need to be returned immediately. It's a Wretched Hive, but it is clean and sophisticated. Interestingly, in the third game, Illium's massive wealth does have a good result: the planet's elite are able to raise and equip a staggeringly powerful mercenary army capable of fighting the Reapers off for weeks, which is something that only the turians could boast of doing. In contrast, Earth and Thessia were already on the ropes after only a few days of Reapers laying siege... | |
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In The Acts of Caine, all the world's government collapsed years earlier after a viral outbreak, and society was rebuilt by private corporations, with the current rulers of the world being the Leisure Council, a group of the richest few hundred people on Earth. As a result, the society has a very rigid caste system. | |
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Second Life could be viewed as a virtual version of this trope. | |
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One of the signs things have gone to pot in Watch Dogs: Legion is that this has happened to their social services under Albion's control. Things like the National Healthcare Service have been gutted and contracts given to private companies. The police are also replaced with Private Military Contractors. | |
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RoboCop: RoboCop (1987): It's hinted that Omni Consumer Products owns and operates the police department. It isn't mentioned, but it's a safe assumption that most other public services are run by them, too. At one point, when Clarence Boddinker asks Dick Jones (OCP's vice-president) if OCP can get him access to military hardware with which to deal with Robocop, Jones replies, "We practically are the military." RoboCop 2: The plot revolves around OCP coming to the mayor to collect on a loan. Apparently, if the mayor doesn't pay up, the city of Detroit officially belongs to the company. While the mayor tries to appeal to the citizens, claiming that democracy will be gone, the chairman retorts that each citizen of the new Delta City will become an OCP shareholder and thus have a voice in the company. RoboCop 3 has OCP try to take over the city by force, firing the police and bringing its own private security force in. |
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General Resource and Neucom, who have replaced all governments in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. | |
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This is basically the premise of Jennifer Government in which government's power has been so limited that it can only investigate crimes against life and property and only for those who can pay. Most of the plot highlights the problems with this; for example, it opens with someone being hired to murder a few people for their sneakers to give said sneakers some street cred and drive up sales. Then one of the victims, a little girl, dies because a bystander's attempt to call an ambulance gets delayed by the need to arrange payment. And so on. | |
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Corporations in Cyberpunk have taken over various state functions, such as police, in their neighborhoods, after the States ceased to provide some services because of the various wars and economic crisis; they even have private armies. | |
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In Romantically Apocalyptic, everything — and by that we mean everything — was owned by the GOOD Directorate, Inc. until their supercomputer ANNET went insane. | |
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Belter society in Escape from Terra | |
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Fate/EXTRA: The world is on the way to becoming one, with the Harway family being said to own 30% of the landmass and 60% of the global wealth, and are seeking to increase their power until they control all of mankind. Rin Tohsaka is part of a resistance movement against them. | |
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Back to the Future Part II: Biff owns Hill Valley in the alternate 1985 including the police, who may or may not just be on the take. | |
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Syndicate is set in a future when governments have been more or less displaced by three massive corporations (one European, one American and one Far Eastern) — but the consequent absence of any real law enforcement has allowed those companies, in turn, to be taken over by the eponymous criminal gangs. | |
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This runs rampant in Shadowrun, which is no surprise, given its cyberpunk background. The successor states of the U.S (UCAS and the CAS) have almost entirely privatised their social services to differing degrees, and several states (Aztlan, the Cantonese state and the German Allied States) are One Nation Under Copyright in all but name. The most extreme example is the Pueblo Corporate Council, a for-profit corporate nation-state jointly owned by its citizens and foreign interests; every citizen is a shareholder by holding residential stock, and foreigners/non-citizen residents buy 'preferred stock' in the Council in order to profit from it or live in it. Holders of residential stock get one vote in the Council board on a logarithmic basis (so if you own one piece of stock you get one vote, if you own ten you get two, and so on). | |
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Night Vale's rival town, Desert Bluffs, is owned entirely by StrexCorp Synernists Inc. And Night Vale itself is under the thumb of Marcus Vansten, the richest man in town. Unusually for such a character, however, Marcus ends up becoming the Big Good for a time. Political issues on private property are discussed as well as the obsession of the city's creator GlobalWide Corporation, which intended to create the perfect utopia with its liberal and progressive ideology. |
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Extropia in Eclipse Phase is an anarcho-capitalist asteroid habitat, the same with other Extropian habitats throughout the Belt and Outer System. | |
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In the Hostile Takeover (Swann) series, Godwin and Proudhon cities are two different flavors, with Proudhon being a Company Town where everything is owned by the PSDC, and Godwin a Wretched Hive where everything is owned by whoever can keep it. | |
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Across a number of different issues, NationStates has options to put nearly any part of your own government into the hands of the private sector, including the postal system and the legislature itself. | |
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The Cape: Pretty much everything is privatized in Palm City, with it owned by Ark Corporation. | |
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Draconis Memoria: Several decades prior to the start of the story, a massive economic crisis known as the "Blood Bubble" caused most of the world’s governments to lose much of their power to private trading corporations, who alone provided a source of stable employment and social security. Eventually, the companies became powerful enough to straight-up abolish their governing monarchies, ending the "Age of Nations" and entering into the "Corporate Age". The former Kingdom of Mandinor is now known as the Ironship Protectorate, governed only to secure the profits of the Ironship Syndicate and its shareholders. | |
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The Caldari State, one of the four playable races in EVE Online is a hyper-capitalistic conglomeration of several megacorporations that enforce a strict meritocracy loosely based on Japanese Capitalists taken to the extreme. EVE in general is capitalistic with players going unpunished for scamming each other (it's almost encouraged), an almost completely free market and player organizations being called corporations. | |
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This is the case in Cosmopol, which is an Objectivist, Diesel Punk alternate future. Virtually every "state" service that exists in our world is owned by Cosmopol's private sector. You can use an express line at the Department of Motor Vehicles if you have a "preferred buyer" card. | |
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The Druuge in Star Control live in this sort of society. Absolutely everything is owned by the Crimson Corporation, which runs a meritocracy based on how profitable an individual Druuge is. Getting fired is a death sentence, because if you're fired, you become guilty of stealing company resource (because you're breathing their air) and are put to death. | |
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