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lifecare is a large
corporation that operates in all market segments, from food production to healthcare to entertainment to retail and so forth. Access to a lifecare's products and services typically requires membership, which also comes with employment at the lifecare. Membership is normally permanent and exclusive, meaning that one may only be a member of a single lifecare. Children of members often become members themselves. In the eastern United States, there are six in existence: the
Meta Group, the
Coast Capital Company,
Time/Atlantic,
Universal Holdings, the
American Group, and
Allied Holdings.
I belong to the Meta Group.
Lifecares sometimes cooperate with one another to fill temporary gaps in production. Relationships between them can be serene and mutually beneficial, but in other cases can be openly or covertly hostile. Members of rival lifecares are often explicitly forbidden from contact. People who do not belong to a lifecare are called unaffiliated. The unaffiliated may find it a struggle to find employment, products and services.
Lifecares can be considered kulto.