Everything within Xu Yang's field of vision belonged to corporations: floor tiles, windows, walls, domes, lighting fixtures, billboards, containers, vehicles, and of course, merchandise.
In the past, he had wondered whether the bodies of corporate employees belonged to the company. After consulting the employee handbook, Xu Yang confirmed that bodies were indeed corporate property, usually used for experiments.
It was all written in the thick employment agreements. If there was a second choice, no one would want to sign, but people must work.
A witch named Sharon Brown, who studied social morphology in New Taixi State, pointed out that the world had entered an era of corporations after the Witch Era, lacking an important "nation-state era" that should have happened in the normal course of historical evolution.