The Tubular Corporation is an Italian megacorporation that was active in the 20th and 21st centuries. They are a front for arms dealers and speculators such as Lavigne and Venson, who are major shareholders in the company. In the year 2000, the city of Venice was polluted by the company from an underground complex they ran beneath the city, to manipulate prices for real estate. In the process, the city was evacuated and the complex was overrun by their own creations, and the complex's employees were killed or transformed into machines.