It all began in 2051 when the stock markets crashed and global inflation ran wild, heralding the "Great Collapse". Unemployment skyrocketed to over 75% as common goods were out of reach for all but the wealthiest of individuals and crime skyrocketed. People waited in bread lines for hours and shelters had reservation lists with many dozens if not hundreds waiting. The number of homeless rose dramatically as the streets became clogged with desperate people begging and whoring themselves out just for scraps of food or money. Protests in the streets turned into violent riots as governments found themselves unable to run as society descended into chaos and nations big and small collapsed on themselves.

In the power vacuum left behind in the Great Collapse, corporations found themselves free of the regulations which bound them and quickly took the place of governments as de facto leaderships as they grew into massive, powerful, multinational megacorporations with no one to oppose them but each other. Some simply use the name of old nations as a front and play games with government and democracy while others feel no need to hide behind dead husksSome have christened the rise of these megacorporation-nations as "the return of order and the apex goal of the free-market", others have called this new era the rise of "Capitalism Incarnate" and do not believe that any good can come from those who care only for their bottom line. Regardless, the one point everyone agrees on is that megacorporations run things very, very differently than former governments.

Welcome to INCORPORATED, a RP that takes cues from the show of the same name and various other similar media like Bioshock, 1984 and 3%. This RP will be revolving around business or more specifically, megacorporations if you couldn't tell. If you're looking at this and thinking "Wait, a business-based RP? That means number crunching doesn't?" I am going to tell you that will not be the case; this RP will be freeform with some simple traits, I don't expect nor want you to figure at what price to sell product X to get Y percent profits while taking into account tax rate Z. Which means on the flip side, if you wanted to number crunch or you actually know business/economics and are very serious about it, I'm sorry but this RP might not for you. If you are also a very, very hardline believer in that the free market is the best thing ever, well you might get triggered by this RP.

The overall feel for this RP would be something of futuristic dystopian setting. Players would be attempting to expand their influence and increase their profits and me as the GM would be sprinkling in some events. Maybe one industry is doing well or maybe some event has caused an increase in the demand in one type or good or one university seems to be putting out high quality peoples or there's stock market fuckery. You can do anything to try and get an edge (so long you run your devious scheme by me first) but consequentially you must be willing to get played as well; no risk, no reward. (Although there are ways you can keep playing even if you go under or get assimilated into another company like trying to find a way to break free).

One major difference I would like to point is that while this will be based on NRPs, it will not strictly follow NRP guidelines. First off, its obviously more character-based as most of the action will be done through CEO/leaders and their group of helpers, secretaries, mistresses, researchers, and managers and whatever other employees you can think of, even can have posts form the view of a normal pencil pusher who don't know jackshit of what going on up top. Second, there will be less a focus on military strength and more on influence and guile as having your "security force" storm a city isn't good PR. Third, you're playing a company not a government, your priorities should be making money and using said money for whatever the hell you want (so yes, expect mature/dark themes in this shitck) since who said business couldn't include fun and games; the only rules that are left are the ones you make and enforce yourself and ethical morals tend to get in the way of profits. That said, you could try and be a saint, just remember that you are first and foremost a business, not a charity.

This is where the NS/CS guide would go. Provided that there's some decent interesting, I'll put it here. It would be preferable that everyone is a fictional company too just putting that out there. What I will say is that it will contain modified if not unique sections for a CS, one of them being your "Industries". While all megacorporations have a hand in just about everything, some are better at some things than others and of course, they all started in one area at first; Industries will be a handful of areas which your company excels at and will have some sort of related bonus to correspond with with the areas that is considered you company's "origins" being what you are the best at. Companies specializing in entertainment of publishing can calm and control their populations better while those good at Information can more easily spy. Fun stuff right?

So yeah, this is a bit of an experiment but lets see if this goes anywhere or crashes, should be an interesting ride along the way regardless.