MEGACORP

MEGACORP is an international conglomerate from far away beyond Andromeda. It is the modern world's first explicitly private nation-state and the world's first private superstate.

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

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 Trannyland, are often wholly ignored.

The most widely enforced laws 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 baord. 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 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
 * 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.