The Ashagi Umbrella falls into the gray area between company and nation-state: It controls vast amounts of territory and people, is subject to few World Union laws, and keeps a standing army that places it on the first tier of world powers. The corporation itself does little, instead functioning through its innumerable subsidiary firms, responsible for everything from nuclear reactors to common foodstuffs. As a result, it is very difficult to assign responsibility for damage caused by the corporation. This near-impenetrable legal shield helped the firm reach its current level of impunity, a level it cemented with it's recent cooperations with the United Aerospace Corporation.