The Zagreb Corporation
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Summary
The Zagreb Corporation is a massive, state-owned company that provides many of the goods and services for the citizens of the Serene Democratic People's Fiefdom. Founded in July 1954 and so-named as an act of goodwill towards Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, the Zagreb Corporation was an amalgamation of the variety of industries and factories that the new Fiefdom had inherited from the former Empire. Since the Empire lacked any Anti-Trust Legislation, the handful of industry on the island was owned and controlled by a small number of hyper-industrial barons that were able to operate a complete monopoly. The problem with the monopoly, though, was that the infrastructure that was available was antiquated and in need of replacement. Zagreb, therefore, was created in order to consolidate government control over the economy and to fund industrial modernisation. The Corporation was to grow massively during the first Eight Year Plan for Industry (1956-1964) and was ultimately to assume such control over the economy that many in the Communist Party of Otiacicoh began to wonder whether Zagreb had grown too large to be able to function efficiently. From 1967 onwards, therefore, Zagreb's sphere of control was to be limited to the Heavy Industry sector, with mining and extraction being the New Azcapotzalco Mining Division of the Ministry of Raw Materials.
Structure
The Zagreb Corporation today operates in a similar manner to the Pantocratorian Peacock Holdings Group, though it does so within the confines of a planned economy. The Corporation is designed and organised in order to allow for the most efficient and productive allocation of state resources without the necessary bureaucracy that would be created were its orders directed from the Ministry of State Planning. Zagreb, therefore, attempts (where possible) to create a profit from its various divisions and companies and use this profit to create the necessary level of funding where required. This has made the provision of goods and services within the Fiefdom much more efficient, while improving the overall matieral wealth of individuals. Zagreb, along with other State-Owned Companies, are largely to thank for the increasingly strong economy in the Fiefdom and a level of matieral welfare that rivals, if not betters, many capitalist nations.
The Corporation operates the following companies under the auspices of the Ministry for State Planning:
- Fiefdom Airlines
- Zagreb Automotives
- National Fiefdom Dockyards and Ship Maintenance
- Zagreb Electronic Goods
The Future
With the advent of free elections, many have begun to wonder if the next few years will see the end of the Zagreb Corporation in its current form. The Corporation is simply too large and too vast, despite attempts at reform, to survive as a bloc company if Privatised. If a free-market economy is introduced, therefore, it seems likely that the break-up of Zagreb must also occur.
The new Internationalism of the Fiefdom, however, proposes an alternative scenario for the Corporation. Some within the Ministry for State-Planning now discuss the possibility of expanding Zagreb's market to other countries, hopeful that the hands-off policy by the Government could allow the company to compete with free-market companies while not falling into the trap of betraying the Fiefdom's Marxist ideology. The first test of Fiefdom goods, should this route be followed, would almost certainly be Pantocratoria, followed closely by the member-states of the Commonwealth of Peoples.
