The Resi Corporation

Overview: Founded long ago when the CEO of a small-time cell phone company, Unum Resi, became the leader of the great Resian revolution that overthrew the restrictive anti-business government of the island of Corania, the Resi Corporation has bloomed over the years from a simple weapons industry to a massive robotics, nanomachine, mecha, and, in the near future, spacecraft producer. The Resi Corporation is future tech, but remains largely Earthbound with very few space interests beyond a small patch of Martian soil they colonized, terraformed, and forgot about when the nations of Mars ended up being disinterested in the products it was selling. Recently recovering from a period of collectivist isolationism, the Resi Corporation is once again hitting the international scene swinging.

Geography: The original island of Corania, once green and fertile while under its original despot, is now completely covered with one large city. Naming it would be pointless, so what the Resi Corporation refers to as "cities" are actually the highest areas of population concentration in terms of either living, jobs, or both. Corania is a giant cresent-shaped island, with just under 400,000 square km of landmass. As such, land is at a premium and prices for land above ground are always high. Below ground are extensive catacombs where the poor and impoverished live, either on the subterranian streets or in apartments below ground. Most of Corania is flat, and originally it had mountains somewhere in the middle of the crescent. However, these were incorporated into the massive towers of the city of Centris, and have all but disappeared from the landscape. In the middle of the Coranian crescent is the island of Janus, weighing in at a mere 2,000 square km. It is here that the main food stock of the Resi Corporation is produced, in crystalline towering multi-level hydroponic farms and yeast production centers where the fungus is sculpted into synthetic food. For the poor, a turkey-flavored broth is produced in huge vats here by genetically engineered bacteria that feed upon air and other special "food" bacteria to produce this cheap and essentially limitless foodstuff.

Economy: As far as the international community is concerned, robotics and weapons manufacturing are the best-selling industries within the Resi Corporation, with Urban Development coming in at a close second. Internally, though, everything is owned at some level by the Resi Corporation. Private enterprise is encouraged, of course, but at the national level anyone's small business is owned by a business that's owned by a business that's owned by a business that's owned by the Resi Corporation itself. However, this still maintains a relative distance between government and individual, and makes it easy for entreprenuers to gain loans and compete with other, similar facets of the corporation. Most of the production of the Resi Corporation is done overseas in the losely-affiliated Kingdom of Defacto Russia, where its corrupt dictator, King Antonius Dominicus, can easily work his minions to the bone without so much as a spot of dirt getting on the reputation of the Resi Corporation. The Resi Corporation has other interests around the globe, such as oil refineries and rigs, blood-producing vats, utilities companies, factories, and mines to name a few. Its neighboring island and Resian protectorate to the south, Bandonia, is a large recipiant of tourism and various drug trades. The Resi Corporation's Storefront can be found here: [1]

Government: With the CEO at the top, the government is not entirely dissimilar to the later republics of Rome. The CEO is appointed by a councel of various people of status from around the corporation and its interests, and holds that position until he resigns, is impeached by an 80% vote of said councel, or dies. So far, all CEOs have held their position until death. While the main Resi Corporation, which owns all the land on the island, has a few laws that it upholds, it's mostly up to the sub-companies and corporations underneath it to regulate their own laws on the land they occupy. Through this, as would be expected, conflicts arise that are settled in the Intra-Corporate Court (ICC) system, which helps to smooth out the laws created between the subcorporations. Should the court's ruling prove unsatisfactory, the CEO of the Resi Corporation or any of his immeadiate underlings can step in and make a dictatorial decision to override the court. Private citizens can also sue over laws they feel were unjustly enforced, but the Private Citizen's Court (PCC) can throw out whatever lawsuits they don't want to hear. This ammounts to a good 65%-70% of the court cases presented to them, and even if the PCC takes on a case, the CEO and said immeadiate underlings can overturn the decision if they see the need.

Culture: Education is greatly encouraged within the Resi Corporation, as research is the only way to make bigger and better weapons. Scientists are reveared, and a complex chemical formula can pass as art in some circles. However, independant artists are government-funded provided that they meet a certain "art-quota" and their art maintains a certain avarage value per piece. Different levels of funding are available to artists with different levels of recognition, and as per contract the corporation takes a portion of the profit of each art sale as their own. This applies to playwrites, authors, musicians, and photographers as well as your general artists. As for the common man, he lives in a strict business soceity where his every action is monitored by several security corporations. These actions are logged by A.I., and inputted into a national database that judges each citizen's "worth" and decides who deserves a promotion and who needs a pink slip. Those fired from the corporation rarely crawl back off the streets, as all other companies under the Resi Corporation tend to see those fired as defects of sentient life. If they have enough money when their position is terminated, they can buy a final plane ticket to Menelmacar, Santa Barbara, A Few Rich People, or some other more forgiving capitalist nation. Eventually, after earning a reputation in their new nation, the Resi Corporation will welcome them back. Holographic movies (called "hovies") and regular movies (called "flaties") are popular passtimes on a worker's one day off a week. Obviously, shopping is a huge activity, as are amusement parks that dot the corporation's landscape. Some roller-coasters even intwine between office buildings to try and increase morale for those that work inside. Every citizen with a place of residence owns a computer, and the higher-ups even have small holographic laptops built into their wrists that produce two thin hologram panels when activated, one for the screen and one for the keypad.

More to come as time warrents!