Royal Mining and Manufacturing

The Royal Mining and Manufacturing (RM&M) Consortium of Iansisle was one of the largest private companies in Iansisle before the Gull Flag Revolution. It was nationalized on 4 August 1952.

Royal specialized in the production of high quality steel and other metals. Royal was a complete monopoly which controlled the extraction of coal and iron ore throughout the Grand Empire of the Shield and its Commonwealth, the transportation of those goods to its mills in the Daldon River Basin or Ianapalis, and the export of the finished goods to the country. At its peak, Royal controlled roughly 98% of the iron ore and coal mining, 97% of the steel production, 57% of the railroad lines, and 29% of the merchant marine of Iansisle.

However, Royal was struck by a series of strikes starting with Charles Bradsworth’s soapbox harangues in 1948 that lasted until the company’s fall in 1952. Frustrated by the government’s inability to control the strikers, Royal allied itself with the East Gallaga Company, the Westerton Motor-Car Company, and the Iansislean International Telegraph Corporation (IanCorp) to put down the strikes and take control of the government. The so-called Corporate Yoke lasted from late December 1951 until early August 1952.

Now under government control, Royal continues to be the Shield’s primary producer of steel, coal, and iron ore even though several other corporations, most notable Hudson Steel and Mining, have risen to more prominent positions.