Cooperatives in Your Nation

[The Union of Galaxies]

I don't think anybody has done this, but I have made a coop survey. I'd like to see your answers.

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[b]Coop Survey![/b]
[b]Your nation's name[/b] [i]pre-title optional[/i]
[b]What is the economic model/system of your nation?[/b] [i]i.e. capitalism, mixed-market, socialism...[/i]
[b]Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation?[/b]
[b]If so, how many are there?[/b]
[b]What sectors do they serve?[/b] [i]i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries...[/i]
[b]What percentage do they contribute to the national economy?[/b]


Here is my reponse:

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name pre-title optional New Ulsan
What is the economic model/system of your nation? i.e. capitalism, mixed-market, socialism... Mixed Market capitalist economy
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes
If so, how many are there? There are 48 registered coops
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... There are coops that provide banking services, are grocery-store enterprises, or provide help for farmers.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? As of 2022, they contributed about 1.8% of the GDP

TG me if you have any suggestions or corrections.

[Urmanian]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name The Vermillion Republic of Sorrelia
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Socialist planned economy
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes. Next to state-owned enterprises, cooperatives are the most common form of economic organization. After the Marksist revolution many non-vital medium businesses were forced to become cooperatives rather than be nationalized, and remaining small businesses face encouragement to reform into cooperatives as well. Any group of workers can start a cooperative by petitioning their local government and planning authority and convincing them that their idea for a co-op is economically sound and is in the interests of the community
If so, how many are there? Tens if not hundreds of thousands.
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... Almost everything except complex industry and finance (which is all state-owned). Most notably, most farms are run as co-operatives. One of the largest supermarket chains in the nation, MalMart, has also been reformed into a series of cooperatives.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Roughly one third

[Brasilia Irredenta]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Imperial Federation of Brazil
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Rhenish Model (social market economy)
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes.
If so, how many are there? A myriad of them, although most operate on a limited scale. They are concentrated in the Southeast and the South, the majority of them founded either by European immigrants or, more recently, by ethnic or religious minorities.
What sectors do they serve? Farming and finances are relatively common. Others, not so much.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? 8%, and growing.

[Grand Meridian]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Incorporated States of Grand Meridian
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Free market capitalist economy
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes. Coops are completely unregulated except by contract & corporate law and they are legally treated as no different than ordinary corporations. The officers of coops have the same fiduciary duties to its members (shareholders) that any other corporation would and their affairs are governed by a corporate charter just like a corporation.
If so, how many are there? Since they are legally indistinguishable from joint stock corporations, we don't have a number.
What sectors do they serve? Various.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Quite a bit but I don't have a number. Like I said, we don't keep track.

[Pomsta-Mest]

Co-op Survey!
Your nation's name: The Femboy Reich of Europa
What is the economic model/system of your nation?: Statist Corporatism
Are co-ops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation?: Yes, but they are heavily regulated and are not allowed to be political unless they register and are accepted as an affiliate of the National Workers' Party
If so, how many are there?: 801
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries...: Dairy, Farming and one mining
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy?: 2% (3 Billion 25 Thousand)

[Tangatarehua]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name The Empire of Tangatarehua
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Capitalism with Rehuan characteristics (i.e. capitalism closely bordering on corporatism)
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? It's complicated. There are no specific laws prohibiting them, however they are not part of the nation's very tightly organised economic strategy and are not recognised as one of the five pillars of the Rehuan economy.

That said, Rōpū pūtea nui (domestic corporations) often function in ways that are similar to co-operatives. For example a worker at a particular Rōpū pūtea nui will be entitled to generous banking/loan offers from the associated financial institution of that corporation.

However unlike co-operatives, these corporations are seldom run democratically and trace their origins to the feudal era in which workers and their entire families are considered beneficiaries of the corporation as a whole, which is permitted to grow as large and as powerful as it likes.

If so, how many are there? Difficult to say as they are not specifically recognised by the Office of Trade and Industry as a category of enterprise.
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... Unknown
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Unknown

[Essic]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Sultanate of Essic
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Mixed market with many capitalist elements but also welfare
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? As long as non-violent
If so, how many are there? Unknown
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... Mostly farming and a few at banking
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Unknown but possibly under 15% or more

[Oronia]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name pre-title optional United Realms of Oronia
What is the economic model/system of your nation? i.e. capitalism, mixed-market, socialism... State Capitalist
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes, as there is no legislation prohibiting coops. However, coops have only been introduced to the United Realms in the last two or so decades.
If so, how many are there? ~500
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... Banking, insurance, farming, groceries, retail, utilities, housing, purchasing
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? 1.9%

[Juansonia]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Juansonia
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Mixed-Market economy with a public sector.
Some goods and services are provided for by the governments as public benefit, and government agencies handle these. However, most economic activity occurs within a formal market comprised of state-owned enterprise, private enterprise, cooperative enterprise, and other means of formal economic participation (one-person businesses, freelance work, family farms, etc.).
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes, although there isn't much legal distinction between cooperative and other business structures.
Cooperatives are almost always Section 5 corporations, due to share allocation being dynamic and governed solely by the corporate charter. Joint-Stock corporations are usually Section 3(or 4), while family businesses are Section 6.
If so, how many are there? They legally are (mostly) indistinguishable from other commercial entities, so there is no official number. However, there are probably thousands.
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries...Co-ops are common across a variety of industries, especially in agricultural, industrial, and retail sectors. San Augusto Weapons MAnufacturing Co-Op, one of the largest single-factory manufacturing companies in Juansonia, is the primary manufacturer of small arms used by the Juansonian Armed Forces.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Again, an exact figure is unavailable.

[Greater Kastovia]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Greater Kastovia
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Mixed-Market Democratic Socialism
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes, and this right forms a core principle of our constitution.
If so, how many are there? Approximately 20
What sectors do they serve? Mostly services such as banking, groceries and insurance. Northern Banking Group, for example, provides financial services for those living in the sparsely-populated Erewhon region.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? 3%

[-Terrapacis-]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name The Socialist Federation of Terrapacis
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Decentralized market socialism
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes, and voluntary worker cooperatives both dominate and are the entire basis of our nation's economic system.
If so, how many are there? Too many to count, as all multi-person enterprises (excepting for branches of foreign-owned corporations operating in our nation) are organized as cooperatives.
What sectors do they serve? Cooperatives operate in nearly all sectors, due to their dominance in our nation.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? As of 2022, worker cooperatives contributed 86.3% to the Terrapacisian GDP.

[Nova Atlanti]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name pre-title optional Nova Atlanti
What is the economic model/system of your nation? i.e. capitalism, mixed-market, socialism... Socialism
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes
If so, how many are there? All organizations are required to be formed as coops.
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... All
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? 100%

[Illuminarium]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Illuminarium
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Scientific material planning
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Cooperatives, in the sense of collectively owned enterprises, are prohibited alongside any other form of enterprise. Of course, if people want to come together to achieve a common goal in a non-commercial, non-monetary manner, they are free to do so.
If so, how many are there? In the enterprise sense, none. Voluntary associations are plentiful, and the number is of course constantly shifting.
What sectors do they serve? Again in the enterprise sense, none.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? 0%, in the enterprise sense.

(I must say that 'voluntary association of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal' is a very vague definition that could refer to a lot of other things)

[TURTLESHROOM II]

Your nation's name: Holy and Incorruptible Tsardom of the Exhaustive Realms of the Confederate Turtles, Mushrooms, and Men of TurtleShroom.

What is the economic model/system of your nation? Capitalism with mercantilist characteristics. The only real regulations are liability for injuries and death, banning work on Sundays.

Are co-ops permitted in your nation? Yes, corporations have no restrictions in how they organize. Corporate governance is limited only by the owners' imaginations.

If so, how many are there?

Member cooperatives are present in utilities like water and electricity, insurance, healthcare, and more. TurtleShroomian law defines a cooperative organization as a corporation in which all who hold shares or invest in it (plus employees) have a single vote. Each voter has a single vote, and they elect from among themselves the board of directors. Member cooperatives are considered particularly ethical and honorable, even if they aren't non-profit. Member cooperatives, interestingly enough, are structured very similarly to congregationalist churches.

What sectors do they serve?

Member cooperatives dominate finance. For-profit, non-cooperative banks (outside of the religious John bankers) are viewed with suspicion and are often fronts for rich foreigners to park their funds in a place their government can't find it.

What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? They encompass almost all aspects of domestic finance and make up most of the lion's share of insurance.

[Bilancorn]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name pre-title optional Bilancorn
What is the economic model/system of your nation? i.e. capitalism, mixed-market, socialism... Ordoliberalism/Corporativism with mixed market on energy and socialism on healthcare and education
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes
If so, how many are there? plenty of them, in many sectors
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... banking, manufactory, farming, gambling, transports, energy, fishery, weapon industry, security and travel/tourism are the mains.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? a great amount, since we try to be as much indipendent from foreign countries as possible.

[Terra Magnifica Gloria]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name Terra Magnifica Gloria
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Corporatism
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Not voluntary, mandatory guilds
If so, how many are there? 12
What sectors do they serve? The guilds are: Agriculture, Industry, Mining, Finance, Medicine, Diplomacy, Education, Science, Police, Army, Navy, Air Force,
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? 100%

[Hussija]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name The People's Republic of Hussija
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Market Socialism
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes, in fact they are present in many sectors of the economy, especially in agriculture.
If so, how many are there? Around 17,000
What sectors do they serve? Most sectors have some sort of cooperatives, but the sectors where they are most present are agriculture (the largest by far), manufacturing, local transportation, green energy, insurance, tourism
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Cooperatives contributed to around 7.5% of Hussijan GDP in 2023 (~$24.152 billion).

[Grand Meridian]

Coop Survey!
Your nation's name pre-title optional Incorporated States of Grand Meridian
What is the economic model/system of your nation? Free market capitalism
Are coops (voluntary associations of individuals wanting to achieve a common goal) permitted in your nation? Yes. Freedom of Association is constitutionally guaranteed. There is no such thing as a "Cooperative" in the eyes of the law - all cooperatives are governed under Corporations Law.
If so, how many are there? Unknown.
What sectors do they serve? i.e. banking, insurance, farming, groceries... Just about every sector known to man.
What percentage do they contribute to the national economy? Unknown.