Holy Lykos wrote:Redone and Reposted for approval. If anything's too much of a stretch please point it out so I can fix.Corporation Application
Name: Neue Euro-Volkspartei / New European People's Party and the Rhein-Ruhr Unternehmensallianz / Rhine-Ruhr Corporate Alliance
Operating Base: Metropolreigon Rhien-Ruhr/ Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region
Leader Name: The Volksrat/Arbeiterrat and Karl Gotthard-Hartmann - Leaders from each of the industrial centers and towns of Rhine-Ruhr elected to the Volksrat, or People's Council, to lead the collection of cities on an international stage. The current council head is Ratsherrn Karl Gotthard-Hartmann, a former corporate head of the Rhine-Ruhr turned revolutionary. Through him the NEV has a controlling stake on the RRU and power over the region.
Brief History: Germany's history has always been a stormy one. From the millennium of internal wars before the formation of national identity to the world wars of the 20th Centry and on. The Nuclear War, the Great Devastation, whatever you may call it was just the herald of another era of German evolution. The Rhine-Ruhr and Berlin and Hamburg and the other great cities of Germany were rendered to ash within moments of the war. Soon after the end would come for the Federal Republics of Germany and Austria, and the final end of the centuries old Helvetian Confderation. The German-speaking regions fell into the chaos of lawlessness.
Over a century later it has yet to truly coalesce. Corporations and governments come and go, and even in some regions neofeudalism has become fact. All sorts of governments have been formed yet none have been able to reunite the German people into one single power again in the hundred years since the last time they were united.
Germany, despite its disunity though, has largely recovered its state as a center for industry. The Rhine-Ruhr, while not the international center it once was, has begun to retake its place on the world stage. At the head of this was the Rhein-Ruhr Unternehmensallianz, or Rhine-Ruhr Corporate Alliance.
RRU was a corporate conglomerate turned to a single corporation over time with domain over much of the economic heartland of Old Germany It was founded following the collapse of the Federal Republic during the nuclear devastation of the world a century or so prior. It has remained as a power in German politics ever since as it worked to just rebuild. Heavy Industry is expensive, but piece by piece the Ruhr was restored an radiation cleaned. By the modern day only the worst parts of the regions, the dwelling place of the worst off of society, still retained the radiation but in a much livable amount today.
In the modern German Region, power blocks have formed. with the goal of reuniting Germany once and for all. The RRU was one of such power blocks. National and corporate states were gearing up for the incoming conflicts. The RRU was a semblance of order among the increasing chaos and border disputes in the German-speaking regions, even if it was just as exploitative as the next one.
But, one of the most interesting aspects of the modern RRU was its recent marriage with the Neue Euro-Volkspartei, or New European People's Party. A neo-socialist anarchist organization with the desire to restart the revolution in this new corporate world.
The NEV was a fairly minor political party with branches across Europe but primarily based in the German-speaking regions of the continent. A radical socialist party with the ideals of democracy, communalism, and confederalist libertarianism at its core, in the corporate dominated present it often remained in the shadows. That is until the head of one of the largest megacorporations in Old Germany came to believe in their cause and became a major member of the Party's organization. The Head of the RUU, Karl Gotthard-Hartmann. Within a year he had merged the political organization with his own corporation's andbegan to make massive changes.
With the joining of the NEV and RRU, the corporation began a transition towards following the proposed economic model of the NEV. Workers were given more control over their own jobs and workplaces, and the organization of the RRU was increasingly flattened with the executive board being converted into a Arbeiterrat with representatives from all parts of the corporation. Many of the metropolitan regions have adopted similar structures to keep support from the RRU and the money in the region, but more and more of the increasingly liberated workers of the corporation have begun to believe in it wholeheartedly. Paid better than most of the corporations by far, and with more of a say than ever it has only been a net good for them.
Karl has kept himself as the Ratherren to keep the ideals intact, but has stated plans to not run for reelection when the current term ends. Whether he follows through will be seen, but he has been one of the most popular heads of the RRU among its workers in decades. The transition in the RRU has also broken almost all of its international ties, turning it from an international conglomerate to a minor corporate entity within the former Germany itself.
Corporation Expertise: General heavy industry - de jure control of one of the largest metropolitan industrial regions in Europe leves the RRU in control of some of the largest factories in Europe set up for everything from Steel to arms manufacturing. Each metro region has its own specialty, such as Koln with electronics and high tech industry and Dusseldorf with classical heavy industry and Bonn with telecommunications and media. The RRU has a lot of all around expertise, making it more of a jack-of-all-trades than a specialist body. Many of these centers were utterly rebuilt following their destruction during the nuclear war a century ago, leaving them with totally modern design and construction rather than needing to be updated to modern standards.
Looks good, looks good. Best of luck trying to return the world to a liberal democratic paradise!
