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A company's a creature that's trying to survive; it's gotta claw and bite unless it wants to be eaten up by something bigger.

- Eliza Thornbrook, CEO of the now defunct Armitage United





The year is 2098, and the world looks very different to what it did at the start of the century. Although large economic depressions were not new phenomenons, in 2029, the "Great Collapse" occured; a total meltdown of the global economic order, with currencies falling apart in a domino effect that left billions jobless, savings eradicated and homes reposessed on a mass scale. Bread lines snaked across cities, infrastructure crumbled without the finances to maintain them, and protests raged in streets. Protests became riots, became all out civil insurrection, and with people left jobless and with nothing else to lose, governments fell like wheat to a scythe.

In the power vacuum left behind in the Great Collapse, corporations found themselves free of the regulations which bound them and quickly took the place of governments. Although many started as simple enforcers of law and order, the most successful would rapidly grow into massive, powerful, multinational megacorporations with no one to oppose them but each other. Some masqueraded behind the names and iconography of dead nations to legitimise themselves, carrying out a charade of democracy and freedom, whilst many openly flaunted their new, authoritarian rules. Although some saw the rise of these new forces as a return to law and order, others have called this new era the rise of "Capitalism Incarnate" and do not believe that any good can come from those who care only for their bottom line. Regardless, the one point everyone agrees on is that megacorporations run things very, very differently than former governments.






Welcome to Conglomerate, the NRP where you take the role of a country-replacing Megacorporation... Or, more specifically, the CEO of such an organisation. Make shady deals, initiate corporate takeovers, wheel out brand new products... The only way a company survives these days is with endless growth, and just because they're bigger doesn't mean they can stop growing. This will be a slightly more personal NRP revolving around characters rather than the running of the nation, and will not feature an excessive amount of mathematics and calculating prices and taxes and all that minutia.
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Sub'd.
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I'm gonna play as Disney.
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Poking in my nose, though my schedule has started filling up recently so I might not be able to throw in my hat for this one. Depends on what it seems like the time commitment is going to be and if I can spare that little bit more out of my existence.
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Interested yet again.
Hidden 4 yrs ago 4 yrs ago Post by Mole
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I'll take The Mentholatum Company, Inc./Rhoto Pharneceutical Co., Ltd. until further notice.
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We won't be using real world companies, but you're free to have a health based megacorp! Will be some competition for my biotech
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You fiend! Why would you do this? I wanted to be Disney.
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Nothing's stopping you from making Bisney with Ricky Rat.
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@Lady Selune
It's not the same though. What's wrong with being a real life company?
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@rush99999 Unfortunate implications
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@Lady Selune
Could you be a little more specific?
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@rush99999

This will be an RP where you can initiate a hostile takeover using apache helicopters and run sweatshops. Associating that kind of behaviour with actual companies is... Awkward, to say the very least.
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@Lady Selune
And using the same company with a slightly altered name isn't?
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Boeing Hello Kitty F-15s initiating hostile takeovers for joint business partners Sanrio and Disney does sound a fair bit awkward like an Harley Quinn-esque nightmare.

I do really like Mentholatum, though and want to research utilitarianism, positivism, and commercialism in relation to the corporation in game. All the absurdism seems a bit clearer with the buiness-y stuff when using in-real life encounters.
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Well I mean President Walt Disney-Pepsi-Comcast will surely do great things for the economy.

Also I don't want to visit Bisney if Ricky Rat is there. This a dangerous proposition.

And now that I'm starting to really think of stuff I'm realizing I am going to need a company logo...this is clearly more important than what my company will actually do.
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How did I even double post I thought that was impossible
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I'm game either way.
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@rush99999

‘Ricky Rat’ is basically parody. Anyway, the point is that we won’t be using real corporations and if that troubles you I’m afraid this isn’t the RP for you. I’m not getting into a long discussion on this subject.
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There's room for a lot of Lorax references in this here game. I shall see if I'm able to participate.
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