Megacorps

> "*Friends, it is time to admit that the nation-state has become an obsolete contrivance of history. We have moved past such idealistic institutions; it is not some abstract manifestation of popular will that dictates the future of a civilization, or some bloated bureacracy, but rather the mechanisms and processes of technology and capital which sustain and create society itself. Consider this: have we not witnessed firsthand the failure of the federal government in the United States in their handling of the environmental and economic crises which have devastated so many communities throughout the past several decades? When the ocean tried to claim Louisiana and Florida, where was the federal government? When drought and mass migration overtook my home state of Texas and the Midwest, where were our representatives in the federal government? When the Rust Belt was devastated by industrial collapse in the wake of China's global rise, where was the federal government? The answer, ladies and gentlemen, is that they were too busy stuffing their pockets with political donations to care about the fate of these marginalized and forgotten communities. But in their failure, they presented an opportunity for progress: the salvation of these communities did not come from their elected leaders in government. It came from the free market, from the businesses, which have been the backbone of all the prosperity that we used to enjoy before the big government Democrats and Republicans incompetently spent this country into poverty and burdened us with unpayable debt. How can we possibly solve the unprecedented problems that we now face with such a wasteful, idiotic institution as the federal government? To put it simply, we cannot. The fact that presents itself to us is this: the corporation, much maligned by socialists and so-called progressives, long accused of being heartless, rapacious, and parasitic, was the only entity competent enough to offer solutions to the desperate peoples of this country. Where the government chose to abandon many communities to nature, to civil unrest, to poverty,and to foreign migrants, the heroic businesses of this country chose to act to protect the welfare of those communities who comprise our workers, consumers, our clients, and our families. My fellow senators, the reason I was elected by the people of Texas is because I demonstrated the leadership and effective action that the federal government failed to. And I have shown them a way forward that does not involve paying taxes to an ineffectual, greedy, and weak federal government. I am here today to tell you that the state of Texas has chosen to secede from the United States, and I welcome any other states of a similar mind to join us in a union of independent communities that are more welcoming to the free market values that this country was founded upon and that will be able to manage the crises of today far more effectively than this bloated and corrupt Congress.*"
> ― Senator William Duckworth, CEO of Duckworth International P.M.C., speaking before the U.S. Senate
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## Notable Megacorps

The following is a list of notable megacorporations that existed prior to the fall of mankind:

* Sobekh Corporation - Great Lakes area water & waste management, natural gas energy
* Duckworth International, P.M.C. - Texas based private military corporation
* Van Schoor Mineraalonderneming S.A. - South African silicon, diamond, & rare earth metal mining company
* Hecatoncheires Cyberwarfare Solutions - Seattle cybersecurity software company
* Huangshang Automotive - Chinese auto-maker
* Guilde Suisse de Crédit à L'Etranger (Guilde Suisse) - Swiss foreign investment bank
* Daiju-Bando Zaibatsu Electronics Industries (Daiju-Bando) - Japanese electronics cartel
* Lovelace Chemical Company -
* Gerstig-Roscher Bionik-Systemwerk Stuttgart - prominent manufacturer of upscale consumer and military-grade bionics
* Guixin Group (Guixin Technologies) - World's largest cybernetics manufacturer based out of China and majority stakeholder in rare earth metal mining operations around the world
* Cortez, Goldberg, & LeJeune - multinational intercorporate arbitration and contract negotiation firm based in Atlantis, Georgia
* PanAfrica Petroleum Industries - Nigerian petroleum company
* Selva Biotechnica - Brazilian pharmaceutical manufacturer & biotechnology firm
* Grønlands Landbrugsudvikling - Danish agribusiness responsible for developing newly arable land in Greenland into industrial scale farmland