Megacorporations

The term Megacorporation is an informal term, sometimes shortened to "megacorp", used by the population of the Corporate Wars era to refer to the largest players in the state-enterprise business by the time that period of history had come about. The megacorporations were a form of pseudo-volatile meritocracy or autocracy, where large corporate enterprises governed whole regions under their economic (and therefore political) influence. While the Megacorporations were formally subordinate to traditional political governments, they effectively used political and social pressure to subvert governance within their spheres of influence, and by the time of the Corporate Wars, the actual formal governments of various areas was more or less an afterthought.