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No, they really aren't. The Basic Set for GURPS 4e often used 2004 (or so) dollar values as the basis for pricing, when it was available for modern things, and High-Tech and supplements generally aims at something close to unit replacement price for military arms and some kind of median MRSP for commercial stuff.
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As this megacorporation seems to be for a comic book setting, I'd suggest various Caribbean countries with favorable tax and corporation legislation. Close to CONUS, possibility of owning several small islands for nefarious and secretive corporate HQ, as well as even more remote ones (or floating artificial islands) for secret research labs. See Peter Thiel's abandoned Seasteading idea for a floating city for various top-secret labs. Actually, just see Peter Thiel.
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You need a country where the entire body of antitrust or competition law is rejected, which means that you need a small country where you can functionally own the government and make it pass laws that effectively make antitrust or competition laws unenforceable and then opt out of any international agreements stipulating cooperation with foreign governments in such cases. You can't just bribe a few people to own Canada. Think of a smaller nation, with fewer legislators and special interests that need bribing. Remember, you'd need to accomplish this fairly early in the history of this corporation, so when it was much smaller and less powerful, it had to have been able to pull it off.
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01-11-2019, 04:22 AM | #39 | |
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In general, I don't expect many states to react well to having a corporation, in effect, rise in rebellion against it. Unless you think that your corporation, in that early stage of its development, can win a war against NATO, avoid trying to start a war against any NATO state. Both poles are claimed by various governments, so you can't claim them either, not without giving any number of states casus belli (and if the UK will fight a war over the Falkland Islands, which no one wants or needs, they'd fight a war over anything you try to annex). If it can win a war against NATO, it's probably a world government by now, not actually a megacorporation.
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According to Mass Combat each 1$ invested by the corporation in defense would contest $4 invested by the NATO countries. Maximum military budget would be 100.8 billion dollars (before the merger, each company would be worth about 200 billion dollars and able to contribute 25.2 billion dollars to the shared effort), for which NATO would require 403.2 billion dollars for a 50% probability of success. Last edited by Alonsua; 01-11-2019 at 04:44 AM. |
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