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Cambodia

Canada

Caspia

Centauri

Cerberus

Cervantes

Chandrasekhar

Changhui

Cheju

Chihai

Chile

China (nat: 3/4/4)

Its politics have changed quite a lot as well.  With Jiang Zemin's fall in the 2010's and eventual death in 2022, the old Communist Party-dominated system basically fell apart.  Yang Zhonghan, the Premier from roughly the fall of Jiang until the 2040's, was also the first of the real post-Mao era politicians, with a good appreciation of democracy and reform.  Yang's Revitalization Campaign (2017-25) was basically an attempt at divorcing the CCP from its central role in Chinese political life.  The CCP continued to be the dominant party in Chinese politics for a long while, but the old system did gradually fall apart.  As with much of the world, China again turned to nationalism in the 2030's and 40's as its dominant unifying principle, culminating in the founding of various trans-China parties (including the simply-named Chinese Party, with members in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, China and Taiwan) which were quite successful until their pro-Chinese rhetoric became bluntly racist.  China maintained an uneasy peace with the various megacorporation through the 21st century, but was outright opposed to trans-corp organizations such as the LSN, in which its main ally was the United States.

However, the neo-nationalist systems of the 21st century were doomed to fail, and in 2103, the US and China forced the dissolution of the UN.  China briefly tried to found its own international ruling body (the Asian Council), but due to its history of racism and also to its isolation from international affairs, only Georgia and Afghanistan joined the new grouping.  The Asian Council idea soon fell apart and China joined the LSN as an equal but rather bitter member in 2120.

China has developed quite a lot in the last century, trying to shed its image as an outdated tyrant country, and largely being successful in this endeavor.  It has continued to be one of the biggest opponents of corporate power, occasionally hearkening back to its communist past, but usually taking a human rights perspective.  Some see a dire irony in the fact that China in 2221 is one of the most outspoken defenders of human dignity in the face of corporate exploitation.; others see it as a natural outgrowth of China's past.  The current major parties in China are the Chinese Democracy Party, an offshoot of the China Democratic Party founded in the last years of the 20th century; the Buddha Light Party; and the Chinese Social Democratic Party.  In the 2220's, many people look to China as a force for morality in the LSN; others see China's modern attitude as outdated and useless.

Chitian

Claude I

Claude II

Cletus

Colony War, First (evn: 2121-2122)

The LSN fleet at Jayapura, headed by Admiral Xavier Escobar, had remained neutral during all of this.  However, when Conniff's troops ordered the domiciles of several known revolutionaries depressurized, Escobar decided to side with the revolutionaries and reported to the revolutionaries' leadership council.  Having lost fleet support, Conniff soon surrendered (in 2122).  The Jayapura Fleet, now flagless (as the Jayapura revolutionaries had yet to decide on either a name or a government for their revolution), swept the remaining Conniff-loyal troops from the system.

Meanwhile, the colonies at Malacca followed suit, and demanded independence.

Colony War, Second

Communications

Constantinople

Corporations

The rise of the corps in the 21st century was largely due to the inability or unwillingness of the old nationstates to accept the new economic realities of world trade and investment.  Corps continued to become more and more powerful, to the point where even a moderate corp had a bigger economy than most nations.  This continued to the point where the corps began to chafe at the bit of nationstate government, and began to desire their own domains.  Though physical territories were becoming less necessary, they were still important enough that the corps had to consider finding physical locations separate from those of the traditional nationstates.  Thus, the first organizations to leave Earth take to the stars were the corps, and therefore they tend to dominate off-Earth.  Many people believe that the future lies in the stars, and that it therefore belongs to the corps.

The modern corp tends to be at least as wide in scope as a nationstate, and only the smallest are focused purely on single markets.  Horizontal monopolies are the rule, at least among the upper tiers.

Life in a corp tends to be quite different from life in a nationstate.  Corps tend to provide for their employee-citizens quite universally, and as efficiency tends to be higher, fewer people go 'wasted' -- education rates are very high, and unemployment is extremely low as a rule.  Many corps also engage in employee exchange programs, trading those with skills they have in abundance for other corps' employees with skills they need.  As this might indicate, though, corps tend to be somewhat more focused on the 'bottom line', and therefore the unproductive find little acceptance in corporate life.  In addition, while corps tend to provide for all employees rather equally, things like personal space and privacy tend to be at a premium.

A list of the major corps of Known Space, as well as several lesser corps, follows.  The corps are listed in terms of size, rated by gross revenues.
 
 

Rank	Name (primary or central corp or group)	Native currency	Exchange rate (A$:...)	Inflation, fiscal 2220	Gross revenues, fiscal 2220, A$billion	Primary market	Primary market share, %	Secondary market	Secondary market share, %	Additional markets	Employees, million	HQ/Main/Core worlds	Armed forces,  thousands	Ships, civilian	Ships, military/ privateer	Component corps	Name (primary or central corp or group)	Rank
1	PanMedia	--	--	--	69,824.54	Media	20.3	Infopro	18.7	Infotech, travel, communications	2,317.02	New Seattle, Sacramento, ISC	10,120.93			Sony, Time-Warner-AOL, AT&T, Disney	PanMedia	1
2	AlphaBank	AlphaBank Dollar (A$)	1.000	2.73	68,190.94	Banking and finance	22.4	Insurance	20.5		2,558.90	Petit-Terre, Petit-Sol, ICA	11,325.07			Citibank, Chase, Daiwa	AlphaBank	2
3	Mitsubishi	Mitsubishi Yen (M¥)	89.153	3.88	55,967.22	Electronics	14.9	Banking and finance	13.3	Chemicals, materials, milservice, transport	2,062.54	Petit-Terre, Petit-Sol, ICA	10,907.53				Mitsubishi	3
4	Daewoo	--	--	--	49,600.15	Machinery	15.5	General consumer goods	13.8	Vehicles, transport	3,122.44	Cheju, Wolf, LSN	14,107.56				Daewoo	4
5	Sumitomo	--	--	--	46,225.71	Chemicals and materials	17.8	Biotech	12.9		1,840.29	New Seattle, Sacramento, ISC	8,714.05				Sumitomo	5
6	Siemens	Siemens Mark (SM)	0.773	3.19	35,073.19	Electronics	13.7	Infotech	11.2	General consumer goods	1,403.07	Earth, Sol, LSN					Siemens	6
7	Lippo			--	24,897.10	Banking and finance	15.6	Mining	12.2		968.31	Ur, Babylon, Islamic Sphere					Lippo	7
8	Phillips	Phillips Krona (PK)	1.614	2.68	20,411.90	Electronics	10.0	Biotech	10.9	Communications	763.87	Petit-Terre, Petit-Sol, ICA				Gaumont	Phillips	8
9	Genesis	Genesis Dollar (G$)	2.58	3.92	19,692.43	Electronics	9.8	Administration	14.5	Transport	865.21	Luna, Sol, LSN				General Electric, Hewlett-Packard	Genesis	9
10	Fujitsu	--	--	--	16,542.42	Machinery	11.9	Vehicles	10.1		615.72	Earth, Sol, LSN					Fujitsu	10
11	Archer Daniel Midlands	--	--	--	11,391.91	Agro	9.1		9.1		492.04	Biwa, Tetsuyama, ICA					Archer Daniel Midlands	11
12	UGW1	--	--	--	8,272.09	Biotech	13.5	Chemicals and materials	8.5		301.89						UGW	12
13	Saito	--	--	--	5,705.42	General consumer goods	11.5	Milservice			207.23	New Seattle, Sacramento, ISC	10,714.02				Saito	13
14	Murdoch	--	--	--	4,244.17	Media	9.9			Communications	165.77					ING Barings	Murdoch	14
15	Virgin	Virgin Dollar (V$)	1.002	2.65	4,198.35	Media	8.7	General consumer products	6.2	Travel, infopro, communications, transport	162.73						Virgin	15
16	Wulong				3,732.97	Machinery	10.9	Milservice	15.2		125.09	Wolong, Fuxing, ISC					Wulong	16
17	People's Manufacturing	SPR Sapia (Sa)			2,008.31	Machinery	8.8	General consumer products	4.3		304.56	Eden, Egality, SPR					People's Manufacturing	17
18	Pan-African Industries	Islamic Dinar (D)			711.35	Electronics	5.5			Transport	105.60	Ptah, Jayapura, Islamic Sphere					Pan-African Industries	18
19	Petronas	--	--	--	683.11	Chemicals and materials	8.7	Biotech	4.9		29.11	Ur, Babylon, Islamic Sphere					Petronas	19
20	Procter & Gamble	--	--	--	640.29	Biotech	9.2										Procter & Gamble	20
21	ML Fleming	--	--	--	637.10	Transport	9.7	Banking and finance	7.1	Travel, communications						Merrill-Lynch, Jardine Fleming	ML Fleming	21
22	DET Nova	--	--	--	602.45	Chemicals and materials	11.3				220.17	Brighton, Nuevo Colombia, Mahabharati Empire				DuPont, Exxon, Texaco, Ford	DET Nova	22
23	Auros	Auros Auro (Au)	12.35	1.29	600.49	Banking and finance	8.4										Auros	23
24	MKMC	--	--	--	589.02	General consumer goods	7.2	Vehicles	9.3							McDonnell-Douglas, Kodak, 3M, Cray	MKMC	24
25	EuroBank	EuroBank Euro (§)			577.33	Banking and finance	6.9									Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole, Fuji Bank	EuroBank	25
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30	StarCom				159.80	Communication	12.3	Transport	4.0		6.17						StarCom	30
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35	ARCADI				86.01	Media	2.7				4.21	Axelon, Escalante, LSN					ARCADI	35
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46	VISTA				75.09	Travel	3.3				2.93	Luna, Sol, LSN					VISTA	46

Note 1: UGW is also known as Unilever-Glaxo-Welcome.
 
 

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