The Corporate Court rates AAA the largest and most important corporations. Also called Prime Megacorporations, AAA rated corporations enjoys the same extraterritorial privileges than AA megacorporations. They are also given at least a representative on the Corporate Court for their importance. Because of this, AAA rating is only discussed prior to the election of a Court's representative. If a Prime Megacorporation is a subsidiary of another corporation, this corporation receive AAA rating for practical reasons, and until the AAA subsidiary is sold, unless the parent company can justify sufficient size and an importance on its own (this is also true for AA or A rating). Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaftsbank is also maintained by the issue of a share to every Prime Megacorporation.
The founding members of the Corporate Court have permanent AAA rating and must always retain at least one representative on the court.
They are immune to domestic law, responsible only to themselves, regulated only by the Corporate Court, an assembly of the 7 (10 by 2059) largest corporations in the world:
Listing
- Ares Macrotechnology, Detroit-based conglomerate of automobile, steel, arms and space industry companies, led by Damien Knight.
- Aztechnology, a corporation from Atzlan (former Mexico, recreated in Aztec image) heavily involved in consumer goods, chemistry and magic.
- Fuchi Industrial Electronics, a computer giant build by the Nakatomis and Yamanas from Japan and Richard Villiers from Boston. Disintegrated during the Corp War of '59 - '60, in which Novatech sprang up as its North American successor, led by Villiers. After the merger of Novatech with Transys Neuronet and Erika, the seat was claimed by the new corporation NeoNET
- Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, started as money laundering operation for the Yakuza but soon surpassed their investors' income by a very large margin.
- Renraku Computer Systems, mainly computer and arms-producing giant from Japan.
- Saeder-Krupp, the world's largest corp, a Germany conglomerate based on the production of steel, heavy-industrial goods, cars (BMW), arms and communication in Europe. Its majority chairholder and chairman is Lofwyr, a Great Dragon, who bought the company stocks from hoarded resources.
- Shiawase Corporation, an old family business, which survived the turmoils of the early 21st century unscathed, quickly able to expand in energy production, biotech and environmental procedures. As the oldest megacorp who first fought for mega-corporate sovereignty.
- Yamatetsu, a shipping and infrastructure giant, of Japanese-Philippine origin. Later moved to Vladivostok, Russia, and changed its name to Evo
- Later Wuxing, a Hong Kong-based company, and Cross Applied Technologies, a Free Quebec-based company joined the exclusive club of AAA-corps (those with a seat at the Corporate Court.) CATCo loses its seat in the wake of the Matrix Crash 2.0 and its seat is claimed by Horizon, a Los Angeles-based media conglomerate.
History
- 2023 - Ares Industries (renamed Ares Macrotechnology in 2024), Aztechnology, BMW, JRJ International, Keruba International, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies and Shiawase (all founding members of the court)
- 2036 - Saeder-Krupp (reorganization of the BMW group)
- 2038 - Fuchi Industrial Electronics (by acquisition of JRJ International)
- 2042 - Yamatetsu (by election)
- 2059 - Wuxing (by election) and Novatech (by acquisition of JRJ International)
- 2060 - Cross Applied Technologies (by election)
- 2066? - Horizon claims CATCo's seat.
To date, only two Prime Megacorporations have ever been demoted from AAA status: Fuchi Industrial Electronics in 2059, and Cross Applied Technologies, whose court seat was given to Horizon some time after 2066 (It is believed to be 2066, since corporate court justices are elected to six and a half year terms, and Cross's corporate court justice was elected in 2060).
See Also
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