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Corporação Miríade
A união faz a força.
	Common Names						

Miríade, Myriad

	Origins						

It is often said that people are most willing to sell away their liberties when their safety is compromised. The truth of the assessment was most certainly proven in the early years of the twenty first century. As the world sank into an economic depression the likes of which had never before seen, nations began to crumble as their very foundations were rocked. South America, a continent just beginning to gain its footing on a worldwide stage, was among the hardest hit by it. Brazil in particular suffered as the state's already terse control of crime and poverty slipped wholly from their grip and exploded as global trade shrank. 

Yet, in the darkest of hours so often appear those who will light the way... For their own benefit, usually. A Corporação Miríade, or the Myriad Corporation as its English speaking investors knew it, was just the lantern to shed its luminescence on the suffering Brazilian populace. The acting CEO at the time, one Hector Pereira, was a shrewd businessman who had built the fleetingly telecommunications company from a small start up at the dawn of the .com era to the largest internet and media provider in all of South America. With the world around him crumbling, Hector was swift is using his influence over the flow of information in Brazil to turn the tides of rapidly swaying public opinion. Subtle blame games in his favor could put massive dents in his competition by turning an outraged public on the 'fat cats' who burst at the seams whilst they starved.

It was as he twisted the situation in his favor that Miríade in its current form was born. Created as a holding company to manage the intended acquisitions that would come from the crash, it received its first newly acquired corporation in x, an agricultural producer who had in times of plenty, risen to prominence of exports like coffee and tobacco. The fools head squandered their position, clinging to cash crops in the hopes of keeping their profit margins high. Under Miríade, more sustainable food crops filled the vast tracts of land owned by x. Harvests were rich and in the starving cities of Brazil, so were profits. If an army marched upon its stomach, so did a nation. With that in mind, subsequent acquisitions were made by Miríade undetheir new breadbasket.

But, food was not the only thing the populace needed. Safety and order were in dangerously low amounts. Drug cartels, who had plagued even the nation's most glorious cities, had operated with impunity as the government went up in smoke. The advent of private military companies was upon the planet as across the globe, similar situations took root. Finding their own security detail lacking, the corporation took steps in procuring contracts with several of the world's largest firms. Pressuring the government with harsh media critique and a healthy dose of smear, officials within Miríade brokered deals, both publically and behind closed doors, to provide the overworked and underfunded Brazilian army with support in defending the public from these criminal elements.

In truth, there was no such intention. Defensive action would only prolong the already poor status quo and cost Miríade the momentum it had gained by capitalizing on the global crisis. What needed to be done was nothing short of a purge. So, using less than legal methods of tracking from its considerable communications network and the unscrupulous morals of its hired guns, Miríade took on a painstaking campaign of elimating the syndicates who had entrenched themselves from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia and beyond.

	Leadership						

(Self explanatory, how is your megacoroporation run? Is it run like a traditional business with CEO and board of directors and stuff, use something modified like all power is given to the CEO or whatever or is there some semblence of a national government involved? Do you play government and have rigged elections and play games of faux democracy or are you open about how things really are?)

	Major Industries/Brands/Subsidiaries						

Miríade Comunicações (Telecommunications) (Origin)
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	Company Culture						

(Basically the culture of your corporate state and its business and social policies as well as its modus operandi and ethics or lack there of. Could also put in how you present your company to the public over how its actually done.)

	Security Detail						

(Your "military" more or less only reskinned for PR reasons. These people are no longer just fat security guards with handguns but more akin to professional military either directly controlled by you or contracted from a subsidiary or friendly company. They act as both your soldiers and in some cases, your police force but have access to more advanced and heavier weapons and even have their own vehicles and air support.)
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