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* BIOCOM of ''[[Broken Saints]]'' fame fits the bill.

* ''[[Open Blue]]'' has Remillia, essentially a nation whose main political parties are basically competing Mega Corps.

* G-Corp from ''[[Gaia Online]]''. Founded by death-fearing megalomaniac Johnny Gambino, and [[Badass Grandpa]] Edmund, G-Corp was responsible for a majority of Gaia's technological, scientific, and medical advances. Unfortunately, when Edmund left the company, things took a turn for the worse. Now everything G-Corp makes (from pet dinosaurs to hair growth formulas) has a penchant to [[Gone Horribly Wrong|go horribly, horribly wrong]]. (To put this in perspective, G-Corp has caused the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] ''twice''. In fact, zombies seem to be their chief product). Ironically, G-Corp is actually the ''good'' company. {{spoiler|1=The evil company is NeXus, run by [[Big Bad|Labtech X]]. NeXus's sole purpose is to provide X with the means to take over the world. Their most famous achievement is using [[Applied Phlebotinum|G'hi]] to create a self-replicating, almost invincible army of [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Animated]]. They also build a cool [[Underwater Base]], a [[Humongous Mecha]], and a [[Scarf of Asskicking]].}} G-Corp also has a copy in S-Corp, which consists of "Elftechs," and is owned by the Claus family.

* The Triptych Corporation in [[Strange Little Band]] is an example of one of these.

** Some have classified the [[wikipedia:Sea Org|Sea Org]] as a paramilitary organization, keep that in mind.

* [[Disney]] maintains self-government over the large chunk of land in and immediately surrounding the Walt Disney World Resort (a.k.a. the "Reedy Creek Improvement District") in Florida. According to [[wikipedia:Megacorporation|that other Wiki]], "Within this district, the Disney corporation has the legal authority to establish its own building codes, power plants and utilities, fire departments, and to seize land outside the district under eminent domain." They do, however, still lack anything comparable to a standing army. ''Yet.''

* The Hudson's Bay Company owned the vast majority of the land now known as western Canada up until the late 19th century. It acted as the de facto government for the area, issuing its own currency and enforcing a monopoly on trade. The company survives into the present day, though it's no longer the Mega Corp it once was, being best known as the owner of several Canadian department store chains. It lost its independence after being bought out by the Zucker family in 2006, having lasted for more than ''three hundred and thirty years''.

* Inco, subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale, can sometimes look like an evil Mega Corporation right out of a Cyberpunk story. Richer than whole countries, it buys and takes lands away from their people to mine metals (mostly nickel), bribing politicians to pay the least possible amount in taxes and fees. Once on their land, the union and employment laws of the country do not even apply anymore, and things have sometimes gone so far that the company was removed from the FTSE 4 GOOD index for failing to meet their human rights criteria. It also created a lot of problem for the environment, for example their plan to let go of their acidic waste directly in the Unesco classed lagoon in new caledonia (a "coincidence" when the Unesco decided to enter the coral barrer reef on the World Heritage List means that the part where their waste pipeline leads is one of the few not under the protection of the List).