Sobekh Corporation

In the years prior to the collapse, Sobekh Corporation was the largest freshwater utilities and waste disposal company in North America. Additionally, Sobekh had large stakes in food and water processing industries, and had significant control over the drinkable water supply of the Midwest and much of the irrigation runoff for the Midwest's agribusinesses. Prior to their expansion into freshwater and waste management, Sobekh was known as Appalachian Shale Energy Corporation, which was heavily invested in the Great Lakes area's hydraulic fracturing industry, as well as Appalachian coal mining. Notably, Sobekh Corp's subsidiary, Sobekh Waste Disposal Authority, Ltd., was commissioned to build the Nova York - Atlantis Civil Waste Consolidation Network, which in the aftermath of the pandemic became the home to Venice of the Sewers. Sobekh Corp was a major player in the Great Lakes city-states of Chicago and Neo-Detroit, due to their purchasing of exclusive rights to the use of all five Great Lakes. Sobekh's virtual monopoly over the Midwest's largest freshwater supply led to their ascendancy as one of the most powerful megacorps in the continental United States.

Management of Sobekh's vast real estate in the Great Lakes is conducted by the organization known as the Great Lakes Ecological Maintenance Authority, an entity which Sobekh used for many years to defend against tort disputes resulting from its dubious business practices.