Advertising mega-corporations have replaced governments as the dominant power, with congressional seats allocated by company size. Citizens are manipulated through engineered addiction and relentless marketing into consuming ever more. Venus is being terraformed as a new market. The story satirizes consumerism, corporate power, and the commodification of everything, including people and planets.
Satirizes corporate competition taken to its logical extreme: relevant to executive compensation, hostile takeovers, and the violence inherent in 'competitive' economic language made literal.
Domains: Economics and Resource AllocationWarfare and Weapons TechnologyGovernance and Political SystemsSocial Engineering and PsychologySurveillance and Privacy
Scenario Types: Satire / Social commentaryWarning / Self-preventing prophecyCautionary taleThought experiment / What-if
Outcomes: DystopianCautionaryTransformative
Tags: corporate-combatvehicular-gladiatorcompetition-violencecorporate-gladiatorial-competitioncorporate-justicegladiatorial-lawcommodified-justicecorporate-gladiatorial-justiceadvertisingcorporate-powerconsumerismterraformingcorporate-ruled-consumerist-dystopiaprivate-securitystratificationcorporate-dystopiacorporate-bodyguard-societycorporate-colonialismspace-exploitationmilitary-contractorcorporate-space-exploitation