Megacorps? Yeah. Zone 17 is replete with megacorps. And as you expect, they run the walled cities throughout the Zone. Some critics hold the opinion that corporations make terrible governments. Of course they do. That said, every government has always been a corporation. Heh. As a great power collapsed, modern princes leveraged unconscionable wealth to fill the power vacuum and build a new society. Scary stuff? Our future?

Of course, international corporations devoted to making numbers go up don’t make for a very stable basis for society. Your average megacity consists of a few islands of clean, orderly corporate enclaves surrounded by urban decay and threatened by plots by rival corporations, interference from nation-states, criminal gangs, revolutionary cells, and terrorist organizations. All of which are fighting between each other for influence and control. Which makes the Zone a terrible place to live, but a great place to find work as a mercenary.