Corporations

Established in Managua, Nicaragua in 1856 by visionary American entrepreneurs, where it is still based, The American Fruit Company has been through a lot in nearly 200 years of existence.

Today it is best known, as Forbes puts it, as “the biggest company you’ve never heard of”, operating through numerous smaller subsidiaries and controlling a full 37% of all arable land in North America. At the same time, ever increasing food demands of the world have pushed AFC to innovate widely to supply its markets.

Anemco began as British-Arabian Onshore in 1937, and in 1972 changed its name to the Anglo-Emirati Petroleum Company. It underwent a radical transformation in 2003, becoming Anemco. A series of fortuitous mergers in the late 2020s have seen Anemco become the largest international oil and petroleum products producer in the world, operating a near total monopoly over oil production in the Arabian peninsula from its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Never one to rest on its laurels, and facing increasing demand and dwindling supply, Anemco has now set its sights on energy production in the broader region-aiming to a total monopoly over Middle Eastern fields by the mid-2040s.

Named for its founder’s Reddit handle (StarLion_42069, from which he occasionally still posts in the r/goldbugs Subreddit), Astraleon has grown exponentially since it was founded in 2013, becoming the world’s leading private space transportation company.

Headquartered in a zero-tax haven in Windhoek, Namibia, Astraleon’s watchword is “disruption” and its significant holdings in both cryptocurrency and Krugerrands speak to an independent-mindedness - and a willingness to break down those same government structures that have so often lavished it with lucrative contracts.

Established all the way back in 1885 - making it one of the oldest of the “Big 8” corps - Charlemagne Holdings (formerly the Royal Belgian-Congo Trading Company) is a company committed to letting go of the past and keeping an eye on the future.

Still based in Brussels, Belgium, Charlemagne Holdings would become the largest mineral conglomerate on the African continent in 2028, thanks not least to its platform of innovations, bringing 5G app connectivity to the artisanal mining sector.

Now based at a PO Box address in the British Virgin Islands, Groß Pharmaceuticals is the undisputed king of American healthcare. It began life in Maspeth, NY, founded in 1945 as a small chemical compounds supplier by a group of German émigrés.

Previously known as the Caspian Regional Department of Potash Fertiliser and Carnalite Production, KasChem (Каснкем) was famously sold to private investors for a single US dollar in 1993.

Since then it has gone from strength, even surviving in 2004 a tragic group-decapitation jetski incident involving all but one of its sitting board members. Based in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, today it’s one of the world’s leading producers of both industrial and household chemical products.

Until recently, Krieg Concern had been making the headlines in recent years for all the wrong reasons, after a 2033 investigative documentary aired on GNN laid bare the company’s toxic corporate culture, triggering a massive shakeup at the top of its Singapore head office.

Since then, Krieg has rebranded as “the most inclusive and diverse employer in the high-yield munitions and tactical armaments sector™”.

In its relatively short existence, Wubi (sometimes translated as “incomparable” or “matchless”) has transformed itself from humble beginnings. Once the low-cost production arm of one of the larger western tech companies, it is now the world’s premier IT and telecommunications innovator, based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Fronted by its mascot, the adorable Wubi Bear (努力工作的小熊), Wubi builds - and generously manages - some 43% of the world’s 5G networks. And while recent exposés have shed a rather unflattering light on the working conditions at many of the company’s largest manufacturing facilities, “笨人先起身, 笨鸟早出林” as the Wubi Bear likes to say!