[quote=TheEvanCat]
Because they have no money, no military, no organization, and the aforementioned twelve-year-olds-with-machetes-killing-people-because-they're-dfferent situation.
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It's only made worse when fifteen years of war all over has killed a lot of working youths, likely caused wide-spread debate on war and significant questioning of its morality like during the First World War, and with the collapse of international law and the UN gave room for companies like the ASN to rise.

Not to mention with the masses of veterans dumped back into the civilian life would leave a lot of individuals feeling lost, unfocused, and without a place in post-war life. You'll have an entire demographic now feeling out of touch. And the ASN is there as their big, multi-national family. So they got a lot of resources to throw around as a cheap alternative to a modern army. Their corporate body also engages in out-of-company private affairs like buying a few private mines they can launder money with to further cut back the price of recruiting ASN.