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[Shadowrun] How did mega-corporations rise above nations after the Great Re-awakening?

Shouldn't the governments be even more united in containing the magic crisis?
gpt
Alright chummer, its time for a little history lesson.  There was a time back before the turn of the century when megacorps barely existed.  Back then, governments ran the show, well... At least when a cop beat you to a pulp for being the wrong color he had his wrist slapped by a politician instead of a CEO.

Everything changed in 2001 when the courts took corporate "person good" to a whole new level.  Back then the courts declared that Corps, Shiawase specifically, had extraterritoriality.  Big word ain't it?  What it means is that after that, corps were there own nation, there own laws and their own power.  They didn't need to buy politicians anymore, they could just ignore them.  As long as you had a corporate logo stamped on your forehead and plastered on your building, you were your own law.

That was just the start though slim, from there the world went to shit pretty fast.  The Israeli/Libyan nuclear war, the quakes, and of course VITAS.  The megacorps used their new powers to fight over the scraps and tear the world apart while official governments fell apart in crisis after war after crisis.

Then magic happened.  The corps were the first to seize the opportunity to use and abuse magic and metahumans.  The world governments had to debate and argue and were still reeling from the past decade of strife.  Corps had their own territory, their own police, military and science teams and they only answered to profits.  It's no surprise that they took over.

It took a while, and it was 20 years from the drekhead decision to make corps their own nation to the start of our brave new world of corporate overlords, but it started with a simple rule.  Your building, your laws.