Principle Corporations

This is a list of corporations that operate in Anthony Ryan's Draconis Memoria series. Following the rise of the Ironship Trading Syndicate, most nations were dissolved and instead replaced with corporations. The only nation to resist doing so is the Corvantine Empire, which maintains a fierce rivalry with their corporatized enemies.

Ironship Trading Syndicate

 * 3,000 shareholders
 * 8 million employees
 * 3 million contractors
 * 2,500 ships

Principal Interests:

 * Ship Building
 * Heavy Manufacturing
 * Maritime Trade
 * Product Harvesting.

Company Army:
‘The Ironship Protectorate’, strength: 175,000

South Seas Maritime Conglomerate

 * 1,800 shareholders
 * 3 million employees
 * 1 million contractors
 * 2,200 ships

Principal Interests:

 * Maritime Trade
 * Ship Building
 * Blue Harvesting.

Company Army:
‘South Seas Marines’, strength: 45,000

Alebond Commodities

 * 1,200 shareholders
 * 4 million employees
 * 1.5 million contractors
 * 1500 ships

Principal Interests

 * Consumer Product
 * Manufacture and Sale
 * Maritime Trade.

Company Army:
‘The Alebond Safeguard’, strength: 20,000

Briteshore Minerals

 * 2,000 shareholders
 * 2 million employees
 * 500,000 contractors
 * 600 ships

Principal Interests:

 * Mining
 * Maritime Trade

Company Army:
‘The Briteshore Militia’, strength: 60,000

Consolidated Research Company

 * 500 shareholders
 * 200,000 employees
 * 10,000 contractors
 * 200 ships

Principal Interests:

 * Scientific and Technological Research
 * Geographical Exploration.

Company Army:
None. But maintains an armed ‘Expeditioneers’ contingent, strength: 2,000