hmm, a bit over the top. Okay, I dropped it to 10% and 2% of the population, respectively.. perhaps 20-30% more of the industry in africa have been part of the APC and one time, but was released and sold to bisnisses outside the APC to promote economic stability.
Yes, I intended to have them economically control Africa from the start, and have heavy influence on the African governments. I originally had them employing 60%, but that would be to much of a stretch. to easily to economically collapse, and to big of a threat to outside powers.
they Are a Mega-corp style entity. they are meant to have significant power.
OOC: I think you continue to underestimate the situation. Africa currently has about 900,000,000 people, and South America has about 370,000,000. Assuming a very conservative growth rate of 1%, that is a multiplier of 2.5x by 2100, or 2.25 billion for Africa and 925 million for South America. Even if this is dismissed as "extreme" for some reason and those numbers are
halved, that still leaves you with a company with 121,750,000 employees. Put another way: slightly less than the entire population of modern day Japan.
That's not a Megacorp. That's a damn country. Walmart, today's largest private employer, has 1.9 million employees.
Even assuming the existence of a Megacorp, its basis is in economic power, not in people. There is no reasonable justification for a Megacorp having such a large employee base as all that does is increase cost overhead. Ideally it would have as
few people as possible.
Secondly, the existence of an entity that powerful defies logic and common sense in this setting. Nation-states are not weak. In fact, a select few of them are stronger than ever. The existence of Megacorps relies upon the decay of the power-structure of nation-states, and they do not exist alone in vacuums. Where there is one, there must be several, as otherwise there is absolutely nothing to prevent nation-states from attacking the sole Megacorp for economic reasons and on economic terms, let alone through the mechanisms of organizations such as the World Trade Organization and localized trading blocs.
Even if your corporation were scaled down to a
tenth of its current size, and even if
all of these regulatory trade organizations had been for some reason dismantled, unless the world was for some unfathomable reason exercising total laissez-faire economics, in exercising the kind of influence you imagine it would have it would be embroiled in every sort of legal battle imaginable in the courts of the superpowers against local companies and several that had no qualms at all about open protectionism of their domestic markets (the EU, USA, and PRC, to extrapolate modern trends) would probably have no issues at all whatsoever with freezing any assets you might have.
It's just unfeasible and illogical in this setting. This is a world of countries, not corporations. Maybe particularly strong ones will develop eventually, but for one able to go toe-to-toe with the major powers beneath the four supers to have just been idling around unnoticed until now is ridiculous.