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** The reason for that is likely that if you could, Morgan Industries could be a [[Fridge Logic|non-corporate state]]. As it stands, the available choices [[Alternate Character Interpretation|can be seen]] as representing different ''variations'' of One Nation Under Copyright (Democracy: ''One Man, One Share'', Fundamentalist: ''God, Incorporated'', Green: ''A green economy is a sustainable economy'', Power: ''Power is the shortest path to wealth'')
* On the [[Older Than the NES|old]] BBC Micro there was a space-trader game called ''[[Elite]]''. This featured some planets that were corporate states.
** ''Frontier'', the sequel, also had these. They varied from reasonably
* The Shin-Ra company from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. Ostensibly, there is a mayor to the city of Midgar, but his offices are in the company building, and he does not have any real power. His only real job is managing all of Shinra's archived files.
* In ''[[Crusader: No Remorse]]'', the [[Big Bad|WEC]] arose from the merger of the economic bodies that themselves took over the running of the various continents from more conventional governments when they toppled or became too weak. interestingly, the WEC actually claims to ''not'' be a government, merely a steward for the powers of government, even as it goes about cheerfully tightening its grip on the ways, the means, the sources, and the consumers of production.
* The Czerka Corporation from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', while functioning like a normal mega-corporation in Republic Space, actually has complete control over at least two known planets, Tattooine and Kashyyyk, in the first game.
** One of the loading screens says they and other mega-corps police themselves, being too large for the Republic to control. Czerka seems to still be in The Reblic's good graces in the second one despite openly dealing arms to both sides.
* The Caldari State, one of four playable races in ''[[EVE Online]]'', is a conglomeration of Mega
** Since the death of [[Only Sane Man|Otro Gariushi]] and the recapture of Caldari Prime, the glue holding the State together has increasingly become [[Putting on the Reich|Tibus Heth and his underlings.]]
* With the possible exception of ''[[Armored Core]] 2'' and its successor, Another Age, the world is dominated not by one, but multiple corporate states.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'' the whole planet of Noveria is a conglomerate of corporations. The planet is exempt from all but the [[The Federation|The Citadel's]] most anti-catastrophic laws. Corruption is rampant and generally ignored as long as it doesn't impede regular business. Also arguably the Volus species
** Interestingly, the Volus find the idea of parents "owning" their children to be absurd, which is why they associate by clan rather than family.
* The ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' series of games have the Teladi, a race of [[Petting Zoo People|anthropomorphic lizard-people]] with [[Planet of Hats|an almost religious devotion toward profit.]] They even refer to their race as 'The Teladi Company' and their ruler's official position is chairman.
** Whose name in the first game is Ceo. [[Lampshade Hanging]], much?
* [[System Shock|TriOptimum Corporation]] filled this role, until things went [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|horribly]] [[Kill'Em All|horribly]] [[The Virus|horribly]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong|wrong]].
* ''Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg'' features AlgOstAsien GmbH, a German corporate consortium
* The Vector corporation in the ''[[Xenosaga]]'' series fits this trope to a T. Almost to the degree of being ridiculous, given certain revelations in the third game {{spoiler|such as the fact that Vector's CEO is the head of a religious organization hell-bent on Vector's destruction too}}.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': Reliable Excavation and Demolitions controls one
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