Megacorporation

A Megacorporation (aka Mega-corporation, Megacorp, etc) is a veryy large powerful corporation with a lot of wealth, resources and power.

Things a Megacorp will have

• Private Armies: Large numbers of armed guys to carry out it's will.
• Company Towns: A town where everything's owned by a company. You not only work for the company here, you live in company housing, eat at a company canteen, drink at the company bar, shop at a company store, send your kids to a company school, etc. Usually you're paid in company scrip (coupons that are good at company facilities) and the prices are high.
• Sub-Divisions: A Megacorp will have it's fingers in a lot of pies. Often it will try to control as much as it's supply chain as possible to reduce costs and it will acquire things it deems useful.
• Fixers: People who can sort out issues for a Megacorp on the quiet.

IRL Megacorporations

• The East India Company (EIC): One of the early wave of corporations founded in 1600 to trade with India, the EIC gradually took over the entire Indian Subcontinent.
• Standard Oil: Came to dominate the American Petroleum industry.

Megacorporations in Tabletop Games

A staple of the Cyberpunk genre.

• Arasaka:
• Militech:

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