Megacorporation

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

Private Armies: Large numbers of armed goons and mercenaries. These guys typically get roflstomped by whatever hero happens to be around at the given moment.
Company Towns: A town where everything is 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 its fingers in a lot of pies. Often it will try to control as much as its 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 that they'd rather not do overtly. This ranges from spying to engineering scandals for their rivals to assassination.

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 under J.D. Rockefeller. Eventually got broken up later in the 20th century when the federal government realized it didn't like corporations having too much power.
Disney: Skub depending who you ask, but Disney is without a doubt one of the largest companies on Earth with wide financial assets. Started as a humble animation studio under an ambitious man that has evolved in a corporate media giant. Owns one-fifth of the media outlets in the United States.
Amazon: Not as skub as Disney. Amazon started as a book delivery service that eventually evolved into general merchandise delivery and has even created a niche as a media provider, having acquired MGM and adopted The Boys and Man in the High Castle into shows. Infamous for their quick delivery times, terrible worker conditions, and are currently under investigation from the state of Illinois for possibly cutting corners on warehouse safety that resulted in a high number of deaths. Also tied for leading provider of fandom lore rape with Disney due to The Rings of Power.

A staple of the Cyberpunk genre.

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