Business Recognition Accords
The lynchpin of the world. They are the tools of our oppression and perhaps the most critical thing keeping the world from dissolving into total chaos. Civilization would likely shatter without them, but the elimination of the Accords is likely necessary to move to a world that is not our current hell. Sound dramatic enough? Good, because these things deserve all the seriousness you can muster. The basics of this Faustian bargain are simple enough. By signing the Accords (or the BRA, as it’s usually called), governments essentially sell their sovereignty in exchange of billions of nuyen in tax revenue annually. They grant extraterritoriality (see separate entry) and let corps issue their own currency, and they support the Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank’s control of the nuyen. In return, they get some small degree of authority on the corps, primarily restrictions on what corps can sell outside their corporate borders (e.g., no ultra-hot simsense, restrictions on some of the more addictive drugs, that sort of thing).
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