Speculation on Contemporary Global Activities, 2077

''2077: A vague, private assessment of global state of affairs. Author unknown, acquired by an anonymous Netrunner in same year. Information amended over subsequent additions.''

It is without a doubt to say that the twenty-first century is the Japanese Century, and the twentieth century the American Century. There is a dispute to be had regarding what constitutes the period of dominance by one great power in favor of another, or by which one supersedes another.

But since the 1990s has it become clear that the era of nation-states, defined by the American republic, was on it's way out. The Japanese nation of Nippon is the last true superpower through its economic and technological dominion of the Pacific Rim, and yet, it seems that through the turmoil of the Corporate Wars that it may give way to a new form of power.

One described increasingly as the "Corporate-State."