MEGACORP

**MEGACORP** is an international conglomerate from Earth. It is the modern world's first explicitly private nation-state and the world's first private superstate. They began colonising Andromeda's planet some years ago.

### Settlements

Earth & space colonies (including MEGACORP Andrometon)

### Properties

MEGACORP Andrometon Tower, MEGACORP Andrometon Product Factory, The Manager's House, MEGACORP Andrometon Oil Rig #1

## Description

MEGACORP is an extraordinarily large corporation and state with an overwhelmingly bloated bureaucracy. It strictly enforces the state religion - worship of itself, capital, and "PRODUCT" - and the punishment for noncompliance is incineration.

The company exists in a dystopian future on planet Earth. It is meant to be the logical conclusion of capitalism - a single, monolithic conglomerate so helplessly oversized that its global market share has reached 100% and it has purchased all word governments, abolishing the nation state. The simple notion of MEGACORP as a private entity is ironically paradoxical, as a private company of this size cannot logically exist; it is self-contradicting. As there is nobody left to trade with, MEGACORP has essentially toppled world trade and become a one world nation-state, now forced to grapple with self-sufficiency, which it was never designed to do, rather than compete on the free market or please its investors. However, as it has always been a private company, it maintains a corporate structure, so as opposed to having citizens, it simply has employees.

Because the structure of MEGACORP is so desperately oversized, acts such as assault, murder, rape and even terrorism are often overlooked. While they are more likely to be punished in metropolitan areas, in areas of few people, these transgressions often go entirely unresolved. Even acts of terror, such as what happened in Amtro, are often wholly ignored.

The most widely enforced law in MEGACORP-owned territory is thoughtcrime.

## Social classes

Social classes aren't subjective like we know them to be. In MEGACORP, they are strictly regulated and assigned to each individual.

* **Class A** individuals are high on the international executive board. They are exalted like gods in MEGACORP society.
* **Class B** individuals are otherwise executives internationally or locally. They hold a great amount of social authority.
* **Class C** individuals manage particular chapters, like MEGACORP Andrometon.
* **Class D** individuals are senior workers on particular sites, for example, head of a team of workers in an individual office building.
* **Class E** individuals are average workers.
* **Class F** individuals are workers who do jobs so laborous and unethical that even class E workers are not considered for the job. Class F is used only as a disciplinary measure. Though it is not unheard of to be promoted back up to class E, the majority of class F individuals, once demoted, remain in this class, although are often reassigned to different jobs. The 30-year workplace mortality rate is 86%.
* **Redundant** individuals are not given any rights. They are not protected by The Regulations, as they are not conisdered to exist by company policy; they are not seen as conscious entities, only as matter. Most workers who are made redundant are incinerated for biomass energy or minced into feedbags (which MEGACORP call the "feedbag consultant" job.) Redundancy is usually given as a disciplinary measure to class F workers, although it is fairly common for class E-C workers to be made redundant for minor infractions.

## Corporate culture

Culture in MEGACORP is extremely bereft. Individual expression is against The Regulations. All workers are expected to do nothing but serve PRODUCT.

### Office politics

Because the lives of MEGACORP workers are so empty, office politics gives them the slightest window for relief, and consequently, the politics of the workplace are extremely brutal, and are typically viewed as a bloodsport for classes E and D. Small, petty disputes usually escalate to physical violence within a work day, or even a few hours. Larger workplaces often have warlord systems where regions of the building and/or entire departments are partitioned under the ownership of individuals, typically the most violent ones. Office stationery is used as weaponry. It is commonplace for people to be tortured with fan heaters, staplers, shredders, neckties, photocopiers and trouser presses. Workers are not allowed many of these; they are typically lended to them from class C-A workers, who notably enjoy to watch office politcs unfold.

Notably, one MEGACORP chapter had to close after the security department murdered the rest of the site's workers in an assertation of superiority. They died of natural causes before the central authorities were informed. Only stationery was used.

## Notable crimes

*Note: MEGACORP do not recognise anything as "law" nor as "crime." These are all considered, more specifically, as infractions under their disciplinary code, which is the de facto law in MEGACORP-controlled areas, at least for it workers.*

These are the official names of the most notable MEGACORP conduct infractions. Despite this, they are are usually ominously written up as simply "misconduct."

* Thoughtcrime
* Blasphemy
* Treachery
* Misuse of workplace items
	+ Office politics is usually excepted.
* Unpermitted purchase of non-MEGACORP products (now redundant as no other companies exist)
* Barter
* Disobedience
* Unpermitted dislocation
	+ This means being in the wrong place at the wrong time: MEGACORP workers must be at work, commuting and at home between particular times.
* Underproductiveness
* Participation in unpermitted culture
	+ This includes the consumption of external media
* Unpermitted childbirth
* Unacceptable conduct towards a higher class
	+ This can include speaking to a member of a higher class when not spoken to directly first.
* Radical neutrality
	+ This is usually given as stimulus by class C when their workers aren't engaged enough in office politics in order to scare them into fighting. It is not used for an actual punitive measure unless a repeat offence.
* Manager's discretion
	+ This enables regional managers to give a punitive measure to a worker for no reason at all.