Confederal Trade Organization

The Confederal Trade Organization (CTO) was a giant corporation that does business in a multitude of areas. The CTO was 51% owned by the Solar Confederation's National Department of State Corporations, which was fully controlled by the Executive Department of Commerce.

The CTO was headed by the CTO Director, also known as "the CEO", who also had the position of National Department of State Corporations Director and the Chairman of the Comittee of CND (Commerce National Departments) Chiefs. The CTO director historically had strong ties with the Secretary and Executive Minister and had great influence in the Executive Government of the Solar Confederation.

Subsidiaries
The CTO had many, many subsidiaries that dealt in a multitude of businesses, from airports to clothing manufacturers. The combined CTO had always been the most valuable corporation in the world, mostly just because of its immense size. James Steele became rich because his company was bought by the CTO, which led to him later becoming the CEO and eventually gathering a great wealth in stocks (0,17%, worth about 2 billion credits when he left).

Worth
Its total stock worth peaked in 2562, when 100% of the shares were worth 2,445,000,000,000 credits (or 2.5 trillion). James Steele owned 20% of it at the time. He then announced selling over 10% of it and as a result it then crashed and the price went down by about 75% and never got back up to that level. The corporation was irreversably crippled because of the crash and Steele losing faith. The CTO was disbanded in 2704, with a worth of about 120 billion in total.

Directors

 * James Steele
 * Rachel Wootton