Compcracy

Note: This post is more to make you think about possibilities that might happen in the future.. not saying I think it might be a good idea.. but the narrator obviously, was born in that system, and seems to like it, as people do things they were born into.

Protests going on in some country again…. “Why are they so stuck on trying to use a system that has been proven not to work?” I wondered to myself.

We read in history that democracy had once been a popular system of governance. In fact, most of the countries where it still existed as a system were those where it had brought prosperity, long, long ago.

The current system of employment nations seems so much simpler to me. Smaller units to manage, no obsolete, separate body for governance. This system did have its seeds in democracy though.

It started with big corporations, outsourcing, and government taxation. Interesting combination. Large corporations, back in the late 1900′s/early 2000′s, had begun to build employee bases in countries where skilled workforces were cheaper to hire. They still had to pay tax in their home countries though, and were bound by its laws. This did work well for quite a while.

However, economies go up and down all the time, and with economies under toll, taxation increases, as do various restrictions.

India and China were some of the initial countries where outsourcing occured. Skilled workforces were abundant in these countries. However, as these countries also grew in economic status, companies were looking for other places to hire from.

It was then that Megalion, a software development company based in california, had a philanthropic idea that seemed to be beneficial for their target country, as well as to themselves. They decided to invest in higher education in a few third world countries with very poor infrastructures. The company was doing quite well, and it began building the infrastructure of the countries in their capital cities, contributing to better communication, transportation, and education. While it all seemed very philanthropic, Megalion was also hoping that it would have access to a very skilled workforce in the country in the next 10 years.

Many scholarships were offered: the company could easily afford to maintain a university with the current exchange rate. The scholarships also carried with them a contract to work for the company for the next 2 years, but that was actually an advantage– it offerred job security in a local market that was not very strong. Megalion’s contributions were beneficial in other ways too, reducing the tax it had to pay back home. It was of course, a very positive public image booster as well.

Tahirimba was one of the first countries Megalion had started contributing to. The youth of Tahirimba who got a chance to study there were exposed to so much more than their peers, and they could see the effects of corruption in their countries, the opportunities being lost, the potential for development, much more clearly. They grew to despise the country’s existing political system, which was a hybrid of democracy and corruption. The corruption also necessitiated public relations staff in the local body of the company to be able to properly oil the government mechanism, which would still cause problems at times, despite all the oiling.

The proposal had come out of the blue. Out of the blue for the rest of the world, those who had not been in Tahirimba of course. For the people there, it had something that had become more and more evident as the years had gone by, that this was going to happen. The first government acquisition of the company.

There were no longer any layers to deal with… the company itself managed the country, and the people felt much happier under a system that provided instead of trying to take from them. It was a risky deal– companies are for profit, and that would mean that the resources of the country, the local culture, every aspect of life, was under risk. It was one thing to have a beneficial company, another to have a ruling company.

However, the first of the companies acquire governments, Megalion, was truly philanthropic, and had no intention to misuse its power. The investment in education had come as a philanthropic move as well, one that would help the company, but would also do good for the company.

The acquisition gave Megalion enough reason to move its base from california to Tahirimba. It’s staff were also happy, working in a company where the company was the government meant no taxation, and that was good news. Of course, in other countries, government employees were taxed as well, but Megalion had other means of income.

Megalion was smart enough to realize that there would be other companies looking to acquire governments as well, after the success of their acquisition. There were many countries who had economies that would do well from acquisitions like those, and might actually look forward to them.

However, not all companies would be as thoughtful as Megalion regarding the well-being of the people and the resources of the country itself. That was why it formed the CGO — the company government organization. In a sense, it was somewhat similar to the United Nations alliance… though the companies that were members did not necessarily have to already have acquired governments. This organization layed down a set of rules that would always ensure the well-being of the country that was being acquired, and of its people.

I do not know much about the technical aspects. I know there were all sorts of debates, that there was much media coverage. The first acquisition had somehow escaped much media attention, perhaps because it was of a country not many knew about, but the formation of the CGO was hot news, and sparked debates, protests, and support rallies all over the world.

The rest is history. What started as one government acquisition by one company eventually led to government acquisitions by other companies as well, and depending on size, some companies acquired cities rather than entire countries. The countries acquired were not that large either. There was a set of rules to make sure that everything was in order. And somewhere in the middle of all this history, a new government system had already popped up: Compracy.

There were still many countries which believed democracy was the way to go. They were worried about the well-being of people in compcracies… and they would try to stop the movement. However, I find the system of moving from one region of the globe to another without hindrance, the facility of living in a place where the only variable is the company itself, not the various local and national government systems (as the company itself is all of it), a convenient one. Perhaps, I did not see the better days of democracy, and am just not impressed by what I see now. Perhaps, if I had lived in those days, and had thought about monarchy, I would have had a similar reaction, and would simply not have seen the better days of monarchy. To me, this system simply feels like there it is based on so much less whim.

Oh, I need to head out now– got carried away writing thoughts down and forgot to look at the clock… need to get to work soon, more later, perhaps.