The Tetrarchy

Petrenko, "The Tzar", a former party official who was in charge of ...anti-corruption. Coup attempts, failed assassinations, two, three civil-wars, none of these events could knock him down. Great Russia? National Bolsheviks? Communist Revolutionary Army? Crushed, crushed, and crushed. Ground-up by Poles, Ukrainians, Russians... even the Yankees got some airstrikes in.

In this new environment, if you wanted to stay rich and powerful, or be rich and powerful...You had to "buy-in". You had to bend the knee, pay lip service, kiss the ring, put money in the war chest, ect ect. If you did all of these things, you would be allowed to continue, because some of the oligarchs were going to be allowed to continue or would be allowed to be so. It wasn't possible for democracy or Petrenko, or any organization to keep all of the oligarchs down. At least a third of them were going to make a killing, the rest could have their assets seized and handed out to whoever, but a third were going to make a killing.

Nezavisimaya Energiya, Independent Energy. The largest corporation based on revenue in the world, and one of the first "Mega Corporations" to be formed. Eastern Europe's oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy. The largest source of Russian/Ukrainian government revenues, the largest source of massive economic growth for Russia in the 2000s, when people of Europa far and wide depended on Russia increasingly to meet their energy needs.

The Conglomerate, Raytheon, FN Herstal, Kalashnikov Concern, IWI, H&K, Hornady, Nammo. All of the "Gucci" weapons designers, manufacturers, and distributors. The first "Mega Corporation" according to many, because even though it was founded in secret, and its revenues weren't as big, it was one of the most powerful. As the decades passed one by one, the UK, France, and US were using weapons made by H&K or FN Herstal. Any serious competition had gotten "sloppy" and so sections of the Conglomerate competed amongst themselves for contracts. Only Boeing could properly compete, and in one single market of military equipment.

The "Investors", the people who "wouldn't piss on the International Monetary Fund if it was on fire". The people who talked in secluded rooms about "Secular Stagnation", "The Middle Income Trap", and the "low growth of first world economies". The people who always seemed to be there when peacekeepers were deployed to Africa, when some person was holding a Noble Peace Prize, when tribes or political factions were shaking hands in front of cameras, when Slavic special forces were training this or that political faction during a civil war, when they were decided they should tip the scales this or that way.