Corporate council

*The Corporate Council (CC, also known as: 'Corpo Command'), also known as "Manhattan Inc. Consortium" is a political and economic partnership between ten corporations and is part of New York City's government, together with an elected mayor and city council. Shares of the Consortium are owned by the major megacorporations of NYC, and while the exact membership has been classified, the Big Eight of NYC (like Zubbio and Xitran e.g.) are believed to have seats on the Consortium.*

## History and current events

Large parts of New York City, specifically Manhattan were destroyed by the earthquake of 2022. After the earthquake, the corporations rebuilt the entire island with a series of skyrakes and arcologies tearing into the new skyline. The Corporate Council was founded by the largest investors of the rebuild of Manhattan to ensure security and control over the area.

Corporations continued to rise to power in years after the earthquake, with that the Corporate Council has only been growing its influence and control as well. The power of the Corporate Council became equal (or larger even) to the local municipality's government, thus the reason why the Consortium seized control and forced itself into New York City's government as an an independent advice organ on the 24th of April 2031 (known with the neutral term: '*The Division of Powers',* or the anti-corp terms: *'Day of Defeat'* or *'Collapse of Community').*

Since that day the Corporate council has de facto forced the City Council to deliberate with them over decisions, because the Corporate Council can, and will, thwart the execution all of their plans and bills. The corporations do not have full control over the city and are de iure not part of government and thus they can't propose plans or bills and will require the City Council to do this for them. With the use of lobbying the corporations manage to sway the politics their way, but the a mayor can always prevent this with the use of his veto power.

## Voting and election

The Corporate Council is a table with ten seats, of which the exact members are classified. All members of the Council are considered equal and all have equivalent voting power, in consequence votes can come to a stalemate. In which case the members start to persuade or importune each other to change their vote, sometimes leading to destructive or even fatal acts of aggression (for example: the demolition of Avalerion United in 2053).

When a seat on the Corporate Council becomes vacant there will be elections. During these elections all AA and AAA corporations can attempt to be elected a seat on the Council. The remaining nine (or less) seated members of the Council will vote for who takes the seat, but keep the winner secret.

## Current events

* Many online conspiracy theories presume that the current seated members will go beyond whatever it takes to secure another seat at the table, to ultimately control 6 out of 10 seats and capture control over the Corporate Council and believe that might've already happened.
* The coming up elections of February 2076. Which have been announced after the death of Fuchi Industrial Electronics' CEO and former Corporate Court Justice, Richard Villiers, who died on a plane crash on July 2071.