Get to Know the Titans of Industry

1. Elon Musk (Calivegas)

Famously eccentric billionaire Elon Musk was the star of the high-tech manufacturing show in America’s arid southwest until he fled the political pressures of Earth for a quiet, relaxing retirement as King of Mars.

Musk’s sudden absence has allowed the Kid to make his move, seizing the unused production capacity before it gets noticed.

2. The Bozeman (Oregonington)

Operating out of the Pacific Northwest, billionaire and richest-man-still-on-Earth The Bozeman is Elon Musk’s chief rival. The Kid doesn’t care too much about either man, but perhaps that rivalry an be exploited for gain….

3. Calvin Tigerking (Yukon)

The Tigerking is no one to mess with. He might have a baby face and an “Aw, shucks!” attitude, but he’ll see through every lie, and you’d better believe he’s running scams of his own.

Also, it’s not clear if he has a murderous Bengal tiger for a bodyguard or if that’s just his paranoid delusion. Either way, best be careful approaching him alone.

4. The Lumberjack (French Quebec)

He’s okay! He sleeps all night, and he works all day.

Probably best to raid his lumberyard at night, then. “Canadian nice” will only get you so far.

5. Justin Hairdo (Mandarin Quebec)

In the more metropolitan parts of the Great White North, there’s no Canadian nice left at all–only the mean faces and tough choices that drive world politics. You’d better step up to the plate if you want to play ball with a Prime Minister.

6. Sausage King of Chicago (North Flyoverton)

I know, I know! Detroit is dead. They’ve got bears gentrifying their abandoned suburbs.

But that doesn’t mean there’s no manufacturing left in the Midwest! Look no further than Chicago’s own Sausage King factories.

Of course, to gain access to them, you’ll have to win over the Sausage King himself.

Good luck.

7. Mark Twain (South Flyoverton)

Take a steamboat south along that lazy Mississippi and you’ll find the master of those waters playing high-stakes poker with a little too much moonshine in him. Find him, beat him, get the map to his old stills. They’ll make a fine refinery.

8. Texas (Texans)

Don’t mess with Texas.

The old T.I. factory might be worth renting out. They had some good tech. NASA and Starbase, too.

Still, be careful….

Don’t mess with Texas.

9. El Capitan (Enchilada)

District 9 (the “Dark Continent”) has been overrun by monsters. They crash-landed from space back in 2014, and only journalists go there now.

But we’ve just received a telegram about an infamous gang leader who can get us access to an old textiles factory. The Kid is going to have to fly in on a Tubman 601.

10. Florida Man (The Cubogeorgian Coast)

Florida Man is crazy, man! He’s crazy! He’ll do anything. He once built a twin-fuel rocket ship in his backyard that exploded when a CO leak from the Diet Coke canister impinged on the Mentos compartment.

These days he’s running a junkyard rich with high-tech scrap. Gotta win him over somehow.

11. Belichiknikov (Massachusetts)

District 11 poses as a fun-loving all-American manufacturing-district-next-door, but don’t let ’em fool you. For as long as anyone can remember, the whole district has been run by Belichiknikov, a do-what-it-takes, take-no-prisoners bully determined not only to win, but to crush his foes along the way.

Should be a fun challenge.

12. The Federalis (Real America)

Somewhere east of the Mississippi but west of the coasts, all along old Appalachia, there are freedom-loving citizens happily 3D-printing homemade firearms that would be almost untraceable. There’s an opportunity there.

Only problem is the roaming bands of Federalis determined to interfere in Americans’ god-given right to engage in illegal weapons manufacturing.

13. Chairman Me (The Brussels Benevolent Protectorate)

Of course, the Federalis are only a proxy militia of some much more powerful force.

Enter Chairman Me of the Brussels Benevolent Protectorate! Operating Proconsul of the United Nations Select Committee for the Underecolonizing of America, he has full operational authority throughout the five Burroughs and L. A.

If you want to take over the world, Brussels stands in your way. Beat Chairman Me, and the world is yours.