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Not to be confused with File:Corptism.png Corporatism.
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Corporatocracy, also called Corpocracy, File:CronyCap.png Crony Capitalism, Monopoly Capitalism, File:Lemonsoc.png Lemon Socialism, File:Crony.png Cronyism, File:Soupcap.gif Supercapitalism, as well as File:SocCap.png Socialism for the Rich, is an economic system in which the state intervenes within the economy for the benefit of the profit of a select number for corporations, especially in the context of squashing competition.
Market structure
[edit]Corporatocracy & Oligopsony
[edit]In a corporatocracy, a few large corporations hold a monopoly over the economy and political systems, which can lead to oligopistic practices.
For instance, a few enterprises might dominate the labour market, functioning as the exclusive purchasers of labour (employers). These large-scale firms can depress wages and exploit workers by imposing terms that primarily benefit their interests, akin to the behaviour in an oligopsony, where a limited number of buyers control the market. Additionally, such firms can also dictate prices to smaller suppliers or service providers, acting as the dominant buyers in the market. This concentration of power enables them to impose their terms, drive prices down, and extract value from smaller businesses or workers, further entrenching their market control.
Emergence Of Planned Economies
[edit]When corporations are deeply entrenched in economies, it results in the emergence of what resembles a centralised planned economy. Moreover, prices are set not by market forces, but by the decisions of a few dominant firms. Just as a centrally planned economy might dictate prices and wages, oligopolistic firms in a corporatocracy can fix prices, limit production, and engage in collusion to prevent competition. As a result, consumers have limited choice, and market dynamics are stifled, creating a rigid and predictable economic environment that mirrors that of planned economies.
History
[edit]Corporatocracy-like economic policies could have been said to have started with the process of enclosure in England. The enclosure was a process in England practised since the 13th century by which the English State took communally owned rural land by force and gave it to private owners. When Mercantilism became popularised, governments began to create monopoly corporations in certain trades and industries. Some of these firms, such as the East India Company and the Hudson Bay Company, became so powerful that they effectively ruled over the territory. During the Gilded Age, with the rise of industrial capitalism, monopolies and other corporations began to gain more influence in the government, with corruption being rampant. However, during the Progressive era, corruption and the influence of corporations in government declined. Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, many say the United States has been experiencing a constant shift towards Corporatocracy due to more favourable policies given to corporations, corporate influence in government (File:Lobbyer.png lobbying, which is legalised File:Klep.png bribery), rising income inequality, and the dominance of the workplace by corporations.
File:Shellism.png Shellism
[edit]Shellism, or more appropriately, Shell Neo-Imperialism, is based on the Shell PLC (formerly Royal Dutch Shell PLC), a super-major oil giant, and its subjugation of File:Cball-Nigeria.png Nigeria. The basis of its beliefs would involve securing hegemony over a country through constant bribery towards its government and national military, controlling and operating the oil via its oil extraction infrastructure and distribution networks, and spreading propaganda to pacify the population and sway public opinion to hide the several atrocities committed there, including the aforementioned corruption and bribery, bribed military operations to suppress anyone there from spreading awareness and fighting for genuine change, and the several thousand oil spills resulting in the poisoning of Nigeria's water supply and environment that were denied responsibility of shell and were instead blamed on terrorists.
File:Amazon.png Bezosism/Amazonism
[edit]Bezosism, Amazonism or Amazonization, is based on the relationship between Jeff Bezos and his company File:Amazon.png Amazon, with the
American government. It is the driest form of Corporatocracy, preaching that the only state interference in the economy is to give subsidies and forgive some deregulation of private companies, among others.
File:Sisolak.png Sisolakism
[edit]Sisolakism believes that local governments should be run by tech companies. He believes that by letting tech companies do local governance, economic development and advances in technology would accelerate.
The South Korea Model refers to the political and economic system that emerged in the Republic of Korea after the Korean War, particularly from the 1960s onward. It is closely associated with rapid industrialization, centralized state planning, and the rise of large family-controlled conglomerates known as chaebol, including companies such as Samsung and Hyundai. The model developed under conditions of poverty, security threats from North Korea, and strong anti-communist alignment during the Cold War. Its early institutional framework was shaped by authoritarian presidential rule, strong executive power, and a developmental bureaucracy that prioritized national survival and economic growth above liberal pluralism.
Historically, the system was grounded in File:Unitary.pngcentralism, File:MilKorean.pngmilitarism, and strict File:Anticommunism.pnganti-communism, especially during the administrations of leaders such as Park Chung Hee. The state directed credit, controlled strategic industries, and disciplined labor in pursuit of export-led industrialization. This approach rejected libertarian minimal-state principles, reflecting a clear File:AntiLibertarian.pnganti-libertarian stance in practice. Political life during this period was highly centralized, with limited opposition and strong presidential authority, embedding File:Prez.pngpresidentialism as a structural norm. At the same time, ideological influences such as File:Ilminism.pngIlminism—which emphasized national unity and collective identity—played a role in shaping early national doctrine, though its influence later diminished.
The economic structure revolved around File:Captrans.pngtechno-capitalism and what became known as a File:STATECAPITALISMICON.pngTiger Economy, referring to South Korea’s rapid transformation into a high-growth industrial power. Heavy investment in technology, shipbuilding, automobiles, and electronics created a model emphasizing dense urban-industrial concentration and export competitiveness. Over time, elements of File:Neoliberal-icon.pngneoliberalism were introduced, especially after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, when deregulation, privatization, and global financial integration accelerated. Yet the state retained deep informal ties with chaebol leadership, leading critics to accuse the system of tendencies toward File:Klep.pngkleptocracy, particularly during corruption scandals involving political and corporate elites.
Politically, South Korea transitioned into File:Liberal Democracy.pngliberal democracy in the late 1980s, institutionalizing competitive elections and civil liberties. A stable File:Twoparti.pngtwo-party system gradually emerged, though polarization remained intense. Despite democratization, strong nationalist narratives continued to shape public discourse, including File:Cultural Nationalism.pngcultural nationalism, File:Modnat.pngpatriotism, and periodic File:Antijap.pnganti-Japanese sentiment, rooted in memories of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). These sentiments have influenced foreign policy debates, defense policy, and historical memory.
The model also reflects strands of File:Necon.pngneoconservatism, particularly in its hawkish security posture and alliance with the United States, alongside rhetoric of File:Pan-Koreanism.pngPan-Koreanism, which frames reunification with North Korea as a long-term national aspiration.
Overall, the South Korea Model represents a hybrid system: authoritarian developmental origins evolving into electoral democracy; state-guided capitalism transitioning into globalized markets; and strong nationalism coexisting with liberal institutions. Its defining characteristic is disciplined coordination between state and conglomerates, pursued in the name of national survival, modernization, and global competitiveness.
Variants
[edit]File:Leftcorp.png Left-Corporatocracy
[edit]Left-Corporatocracy refers to a political-economic framework in which large corporate structures operate within a nominally left-wing system. It blends state oversight, social welfare rhetoric, and centralized economic planning with powerful corporate actors that remain deeply embedded in governance. The model presents itself as socially conscious while relying on concentrated institutional power.
Economically, it overlaps with File:Marketsoc.pngmarket socialism, where markets exist but major sectors are controlled or heavily directed by the state. However, unlike traditional socialist planning, corporate entities retain managerial autonomy and profit incentives, creating a hybrid structure. This sometimes evolves into what critics call File:Neoliberalsoc.pngneoliberal socialism—a system that maintains welfare policies and progressive branding while embracing financialization, privatization in selective sectors, and global capital flows.
The governing style often leans toward File:Socauth.pngsocial authoritarianism, where civil order and economic coordination justify expanded executive or bureaucratic authority. The state positions itself as guardian of social stability, regulating labor, media, and industry while framing such control as necessary for equality or national development. This dynamic can slide into File:SocStateCap.pngsocial state capitalism, in which the government holds dominant stakes in strategic industries but operates them with profit-driven logic similar to private corporations.
Culturally and politically, accusations of File:Champagne Socialism.pngchampagne socialism arise when political elites advocate redistribution or worker solidarity while benefiting from corporate wealth and influence. This perception fuels skepticism about authenticity and class alignment. The system’s strategic flexibility is sometimes described as File:MachSoc.pngMachiavellian, emphasizing pragmatism over ideological purity as alliances shift, rhetoric adapts, but centralized authority and elite coordination remain constant.
In practice, Left-Corporatocracy represents a tension. It promises social equity and worker protection. Yet it consolidates power within state-backed corporate networks. The key question becomes: who truly governs—the public, or an alliance between bureaucrats and executives?
File:Lemonsoc.png Lemon Socialism
[edit]Lemon Socialism emerged as a pejorative term for an economic system based on: a government that offers subsidies to weak, bad or bankrupt companies so that they don't end up and remain in the market.
File:MegaCorp.png Mega Corporatocracy
[edit]Mega Corporatocracy is an ideology that wants one corporation to control all aspects of human life, and force everyone to only work and consume. There is only one world government that has a monopoly on everything. An example of Mega Corporatocracy is the BNL from the 2008 Pixar film, Wall-E.
File:Soupcap.gif Supercapitalism
[edit]Supercapitalism was a concept created by fascist dictator File:Mussolini.png Benito Mussolini. This theoretical variant of corporatocracy would intervene in society so that it was fully standardised, so that companies could know what customers want, and customers would consume infinitely. This variant is similar to File:Ford.png Fordism, the fictional ideology of "Brave New World".
Personality
[edit]Corporatocracy as a character cares a hell of a lot about getting the maximum amount of money possible, and unlike certain other people with this trait, corp is very much willing to use organised violence to achieve this goal. Corp loves government policies that favour the wealthy to an insane extent, and he is often seen worshipping concepts such as Intellectual Property as a deity. Because of his love of these policies, he hates the public domain. Corp is extremely Sociopathic and, like in the first paragraph, will do quite literally ANYTHING for a quick buck, including: murder, mass environmental destruction, brainwashing, and persuading governments to turn a blind eye on it all. He would rather let the world burn and cause a mass extinction than lose money, because of this, he is pretty sympathetic to anti-environmentalist and psychotic governments that almost any other person would hate. Since he thinks the state must be run by a single powerful business or a group of them, he is one of the few ideologies that openly believes that File:Lobbyer.png corporate lobbying is a good thing - an idea that even many other capitalist ideologies see as unjust.
How to Draw
[edit]- Draw a ball with eyes
- Fill it with very light cyan
- In the middle, draw a white circle
- In the circle, draw a Big "C" in the middle, in the same shade of cyan.
- Vertically through the C, put a line in the same colour.
Thou art done!
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Cyan | #76D7C4 | rgb(118, 215, 196) | |
| White | #FFFFFF | rgb(255, 255, 255) | |
Relationships
[edit]Shareholders
[edit]- File:Plutocrat.png Plutocracy - Thanks for everything, Dad. I'll make the family company greater than ever.
Authoritarian Capitalism - Love you, Dad, your conglomerate way more.- File:Oligarchy.png Oligarchy - Excellent way of praxis.
- File:Regulationism.png Regulationism - Someone managed to make a better quality service than me, and is destined to overthrow my greedy ways? BAM! Now it's illegal because of regulations!
What, you expect me to follow the regulations too? Take some lobby money and see if your opinion changes. - File:Merc.png Mercantilism - Thank you for creating the stock market, setting high tariffs on competitors, and creating charter companies with private armies! In some aspects, you are better than capitalism, even if some of your beliefs and policies are a bit outdated.
- File:Banana Republicanism.png Banana Republicanism - The agrarian version of me. We hang out a lot.
- File:Moncap.png Monarcho-Capitalism - King Leopold II of Belgium was based.
- File:Ford.png Fordism - Love your Soma product!
I’d like 50 of them! - File:Pinkcap.png Pink Capitalism - You're my best friend every February and June.
You're on thin ice after File:Conserv.png they start boycotting me. - File:Necon.png Neoconservatism - CRUSH THE ENEMIES OF FIAT! Your wars are making me big money as well.
- File:Klep.png Kleptocracy - You get me!
There's no corruption in the West, because it's called File:Lobbyer.png lobbying. - File:Statlib.png State Liberalism - Your policies are good for PR. The only downside is we can't market to conservatives anymore.
- File:Statlibevil.png File:LBubble.pngConservatives? I'm beheading them right now. Don't bother marketing to dead people.File:RBubble.png
- File:Mediastocracy flair.png Mediacracy - I give you ad money, and you do some positive PR for me, deal?
- File:PolState.png Police Statism - I love control! File:PrivPolice.png Private Police is great, File:Pinkerton.png Pinkertons are amazing, and the File:An Arbiter.png Arbiters are pretty based too.
- File:Captrans.png Capitalist Transhumanism - The companies in Cyberpunk are the good guys.
- File:Libfem.png Liberal Feminism - Roe v. Wade overturned? Don't worry, I'll pay for you to travel out of state for an abortion.
But that means a potential future customer dies... oh, well. You win some, you lose some. - File:Idiocracy.png Idiocracy - Brought to you by Carl's Jr. Also, thanks for that Grubhub ad.
- File:Optim.png Optimateism and File:Senat.png Senatorialism - Your ancient management tactics are great even now!
- File:Cybercr.png Cyberocracy - Eventually, we will completely replace our labour force with robots. Also, we are going to invest and use more AI so we don't have to pay those whiny so-called "underpaid" workers. Building 1 billion robots and using AI is BASED.[10] ...I know I'm paving the way for a technological singularity, and I'm proud of it. I wonder File:Cball-TheCity.png what'll happen after it though...😉
Also, my opinions on you is written with AI. - File:NeoEnl.png Neo-Enlightenment - BEST LIBERTARIAN IN THE WORLD!
- File:Timocracy.png Timocracy - Great idea, only those who have skin in the game should have power (Now, let us make the poor own nothing.)
- File:Neoliberal-icon.png Neoliberalism - Thanks for those tax cuts!
- File:Consoomer.png Consumerism-Consume our goods!
- File:Obj.png Objectivism - "Businessmen are the symbol of a free society-the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilisation will perish. But if you wish to fight for freedom, you must begin by fighting for its unrewarded, unrecognised, unacknowledged, yet best representatives - The American Businessman"
- File:Capcom.png Capitalist Communism - Now selling Das Kapital and File:Champagne Socialism.png Champagne!
- File:AmericanModel 1.png American Model - Citizens United was based...
- File:Helv.png Helvetic Model - And Nestle is based.
Customers
[edit]- File:Statist.png Statism - Yeah, yeah, now shut up and take my lobby money.
- File:Neocam.png Neocameralism - A state-run like a company is a great idea, but what about a corporation running a state?
- File:Statecap.png State Capitalism - The state should serve the interests of corporations, not the other way around. But File:Cball-South Korea.png South Korea and File:Cball-China.png China are based.
- File:Welf.png Welfarism - Only good when it's for my business.
- File:Protect.png Protectionism - Removes foreign competitors but prevents my expansion abroad.
- File:Nazcap-Hat.png National Capitalism - When will you understand that racism and homophobia are both bad for business?
- File:Envi.png Environmentalism - Why do you hate me? I care about the environment so much that I even made eco-friendly electric cars
which, instead of burning fossil fuels directly inside them, burn them up in the power plant that produces the electricity they use! - File:Whitesup.png White Nationalism - You were a useful idiot during the colonial era who justified the Congo Free State and company rule in India, but now you're bad for PR, so I will pretend to hate you.
- File:Imp.png Imperialism - You can be profitable, but you also dismantled the Dutch/British East India Companies.
- File:Bidenism.png Bidenism - No, don't increase the corporate tax! Thanks for your subsidies, though.
- File:Libertarian.png Libertarianism - You hate the idea that corporations should do as they please? You know that's just how the free market works, right?
- File:Nordmodel.png Nordic Model - Filthy p**r-loving lefto- oh wait, Denmark is one of the most business-friendly places.
- File:Nrx.png Neoreactionaryism - I like some of your economic ideas, but this whole far-right thing is a PR nightmare and "formalising" everything can be bad for me in the long term. I will be bankrupt!
- File:Illum.png Illuminatism - What happens in boardrooms, stays in boardrooms. But then again, sometimes corporate power is overt.
- File:Karl Marx.png Marxism - Your supporters might not like me, but I'm the one who sells the Communist Manifesto... with a 20% discount if you use the promo code "Engels" at checkout.
Marxism-Leninism - Heh, I broke your camps with Pepsi and Coca-Cola feud... Yet I also have some friendships with all your leaders... Didn't I?- File:Dengf.png Dengism - You were way more based in the past, but I suppose we can still do business.
- File:Avar.png Avaritionism - You always try to attack me or do something against me to steal my money and even my business, but at least you would make a good mercenary, besides the world of File:Shlurp.png Cruelty Squad is extremely based
even though it is strange even to me.
Competitors
[edit]- File:Corptism.png Corporatism - WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME!!! You want the boss to work with his workers and the government to achieve set goals, while I want the bosses to have control over both the workers and the government.
- File:Ispop.png Islamic Populism (Western Companies at least) - NOOOO STOP BOYCOTTING ME IN ARAB COUNTRIES!!!
- File:NatProg.png Bull Moose Progressivism - STOP BUSTING MY TRUSTS!
- File:Long.png Longism - STOP SHARING THE WEALTH! COMMIE!
- File:Conservative Posadism.png MacArthurism - I will never forgive and forget dissolving the Zaibatsus in Japan.
- File:Distributist.png Distributism - You are not touching me and my multi-million dollar corporation under any circumstances. Deploy the private militias!
- File:Synd.png Syndicalism - Worker strikes get dealt with by private militias.
- File:Lpop.png Left-Wing Populism - STOP PROTESTING! PLEB! AND ALSO STOP BOYCOTTING ME!
Social Democracy - STAY AWAY FROM MY PROFITS! COMMIE! But JB Pritzker is based, though. And like you're going to punish me.- File:Civlibert.png Civil Libertarianism - I will collect your private information as I please.
- File:Dsa.png Democratic Socialism & File:Liberalsoc.png Liberal Socialism - wheeze.mp3.
I do like Luis Inacio Lula da Silva though.
Anarcho-Syndicalism - Yeah, almost my opposite.
Anarcho-Communism - The above, but even worse.- File:InsGun.png Insurrectionary Anarchism - HEY, DON'T STEAL THAT GUN, IT'S NOT EVEN ON SALE- *gets shot with it*
- File:Anpostleft.png Post-Leftism - Sorry, but we don't give stuff for free. You know - no pain, no gain.
Gamification of work is kinda effective for attracting unproductive persons like him. - File:Anego.png Anarcho-Egoism - My ads are not spooks, start looking at them!
- File:Socgeo.png Social Georgism - Shut up and let me monopolise land!
- File:European Federalism.png European Federalism - *screeching* repeal Articles 101 and 102!!!
- File:Eurocom.png Eurocommunism - The above, but even worse since you're a commie.
- File:Agorismf.png Agorism - Wants to end copyright. There were no original ideas before 1710.
- File:FDF-Pirate.png Piratism - *This polcompball is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Corporatocracy Inc.*
- File:Illeg.png Illegalism - Stop breaking copyright, stealing my money and products and trying to kill bosses! Time to call the Pinkertons!
- File:Soul.png Soulism - HOW did this person get our products freely without paying anything? Stealing? Not likely - our security guards and video cameras never caught this person.
- File:Christsoc.png Christian Socialism - *Hissing after being sprayed with holy water*
- File:Hmind.png Hive-Mind Collectivism - "I fear no man... But that thing... It scares me."
But your File:Hmind cap.png capitalist brother is perfect. - File:Reactsoc.png Reactionary Socialism - Religious, socialist, and the fact that you act like a moderate version of the above swarm? Awful stuff.
Anarcho-Capitalism, File:Austrobert.png Austrian School, and File:Hoppef.png Hoppeanism - I am not a Capitalist?! But providing work for the rich is based.File:Lemonsoc.png
Almost everyone else - Thinks lobbying is bad!
Further Information
[edit]File:Book.png Literature
[edit]- The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Wealth Inequality (Buy) (Google Preview) by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles
- People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Read Online) (Google Preview) (Buy) by Jacobin Leigh Philips and Michał Rozworski
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
File:Mediastocracy flair.png Articles
[edit]- The salt mines, "hell on earth" for the disabled in South Korea
- The islands of abuse: Inside South Korea's slave farms for the disabled
File:Wikipedia.png Wikipedia
[edit]- File:Corp.png Corporatocracy
- File:MegaCorp.png Megacorporation
- File:EconStat.png Monopoly
- File:CropRep.png Corporate republic
- File:Antisynd.png Union busting
- Company town
- Robber baron
- Corporate trust
- File:CronyCap.png Crony capitalism
- File:Lemonsoc.png Lemon socialism
- "Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor"
- Chartered Company
- Corporate welfare
- File:Soupcap.gif Supercapitalism
- File:Banana Republicanism.png Banana republic
- File:CorpManagerialism.png Managerial state
- File:Intel property.png Copyright
- "Too big to fail"
- File:Amazon.png Amazon company
- The VOC
- East India Company
- File:Cball-CongoFreeState.png Congo Free State
- Business Plot
- Standard Oil
- File:Banana Republicanism.png United Fruit Company
- File:Cball-South Korea.png Chaebol
- File:Cball-Japan.png Keiretsu
- File:Cball-Japan.png Zaibatsu
File:TVTropes.png TV Tropes
[edit]File:YouTube.png Videos
[edit]- The One Political Issue That Unites All of Us by File:Mrbeat.png Mr Beat
- Why Some Capitalists are the Worst Enemies of Capitalism by File:Libertarian Capitalism.png John Stossel
- Freeloaders: The Wealthy by File:Libertarian Capitalism.png John Stossel
- The Banana Republics by Sam O'Nella Academy
- The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation by Tad Lumpkin and Harold Uhl
- The Age Of Trillion Dollar Mega-Corporations by Economics explained
- When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company by Business Casual
- Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video
- Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video (LONG VERSION)
- The Moment Twitter Ruined Society by File:YouTuber Moon.png Moon
- Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea by Wendover Productions
- Forms of government used by corporations by File:J.J. McCullough.png J.J. McCullough
Games
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ http://vote.duma.gov.ru/vote/123408
- ↑ [1], Youtube.com.
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Warren Buffett is asked about John Maynard Keynes, the famous depression-era economist. He discusses the importance of a chapter in Keynes' "General Theory".
- ↑ Khodorkovsky has financed various opposition parties, including the CPRF.
- ↑ https://x.com/nasdaily/status/1942206755351540215?t=VjO1QvkgX7HGVPdq6e8_Tw&s=33
- ↑ My Israel And Palestine, Explained
- ↑ The Most Powerful Village In The World!
- ↑ See "Der Fuhrer's Face" or "Education for Death"
- ↑ Elon Musk expects 1 billion humanoid robots by 2040s
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