The Big O: The Paradigm Corporation controls everything inside Paradigm City.AKB0048: The Deep Galaxy Trade Organization is a huge corporate oligarchy who stamps out all forms of entertainment to maintain its galactic empire.The term 'megacorp' comes from the works of Alfred Eichner (an economist), who defined a megacorp as a large, corporate enterprise that places survival and growth as key objectives - using its impressive resources to protect itself and its interests, but to also constantly look for avenues of expansion. And in the modern world real life governments tend to be well-organised enough to discourage any corporation or NGO from usurping their power to this extent. However, it is still an exaggeration to claim that all corporations act in this way. There have been huge corporations with their own armed forces, such as the East India Company, which at one point had twice as many soldiers as the British Army. And yes, some of these corporations do engage in unethical practices or political influence, and there are historical examples of Mega Corps acting either as a state within state or as an semi-independent political entity, such as the Hanseatic League. Real Life: Monopolies, monopsonies (only one buyer of goods in the market), duopolies (only two sellers in the market), and oligopolies (only a small handful of Mega Corp entities that are selling in the market) do exist in real life, and indeed, very large multinational corporations do exist. In shows seeking a Green Aesop a Mega Corp could also be Toxic, Inc. Taken to its extreme, it may have One Nation Under Copyright, an entire country or world at their disposal, becoming superpowers in their own right.Ĭorporate Warfare may result if financial means are not enough to accomplish the company's goals. The Mega Corp may control the government by either having employees in important positions or by all-powerful lobbyists. Their employees are portrayed as oppressed, paid pitifully low wages, if paid at all, who are expendable. Mega Corporations are shown to be private institutions that don't have to play by the rules, because 'nobody is forcing you to work for them or buy from them or use their institutions or buy their products.' Dark versions will show these guys buying off and eliminating their competitors, brainwashing the masses, and coming up with Evil Plans to ensure they have a monopoly. note the latter of which is actually an Anachronism Stew from Imperial Japan Korean Mega Corps meanwhile prefer 'Chaebol'. Japanese Mega Corps might prefer 'Group' or 'Zaibatsu'. As a sign of their omnipresence, they will Sigil Spam all over the place and bombastically announce the company's name, which will be almost always a single word followed by 'Corporation', 'Industries' or 'Enterprises'. In line with their corporate ambition, Mega Corps invest an ungodly amount of money in security, employing not only large contingents of Private Military Contractors as staff and guards, reaching military levels in numbers and hardware, but also Hired Guns in order to take out the competition. The nastier version are home to the Corrupt Corporate Executive, Mean Boss, Pointy-Haired Boss, and Obstructive Bureaucrat, and have Amoral Attorneys on the payroll.

These benevolent portrayals have become increasingly common in early 21st Century media, until increased scrutiny in the late 2010s. There do exist some benevolent portrayals of a Mega Corp in which they are a large business which employs a lot of people and isn't shown practicing in unethical trade practices.

However, in Post-Cyberpunk stories, some Mega Corps can aspire to be Big Good, providing the hero with amazing equipment, or are owned by and support a hero who is Crimefighting with Cash. Rather than being a simple business making things that people want to buy, they are the villains of the setting, depicted as exploitative, oppressive and screwing the rules with their money while maintaining a Peace & Love Incorporated façade. Traditionally, it was rare for Mega Corporations to be portrayed other than negatively. This goes beyond the definition of 'monopoly.' Perhaps there is one company that is a Privately Owned Society in its own right. These corporations are umbrella corporations, controlling dozens of smaller companies that manufacture everything from clothing and pharmaceuticals to advanced information technology (such as smartphones, Artificial Intelligence and cybernetics) to military hardware. Science Fiction, especially of the Dystopian and Cyberpunk sorts, loves its massive corporations.

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