Commercial Enterprise (Ordrey)

Commercial Enterprises in Ordrey, officially known as Fontari are, often community-owned legal entities engaged in some variety of economic activity, such as production, distribution, the provision of services, or any other economic operation. Enterprises are generally thought to be similar to the concept of the "" in nations. Enterprises and production units engaged in activities that are generally undertaken by business-enterprises in capitalist systems, including the design, production, manufacture and distribution of producer and consumer goods and services. In contrast to companies, enterprises do not generally engage in business-related activities related to marketing.

These organizations are generally composed of sub-units called Associate Compartments, officially called Críui which typically engage in one part of the supply chain of a given enterprise or production process. These are often equated to individual factories or specific locations as opposed to the larger Enterprise which it is organized under.

History
While not an explicitly Ordrish innovation, the idea of a business entity that was owned and operated collectively by its workers has a long and storied history in the nation prior to the 1975 Revolution. In many ways, this can be attributed to Ordrey's place as one of the origin points of industrialization in the late 18th Century, and the societal upheaval resulting from the decline of the pre-industrial agrarian, communalistic societies which preceded the acceleration of urbanization and the factory. The earliest experiments seen in Ordrey came from the movements of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, with figures such as Estes Wórich and Talis Besson making some of the first published writings on workers' rights and modern organized labor in the context of the Industrial Revolution, inspiring the formation of a number of industrial and agrarian cooperatives and "model towns" which were new settlements built around the concept of worker self-management. Besson himself would participate in the formation of the town of Nynomas, having previously used his fortune gained through the cotton trade to engage in philanthropy based in the improvement of access to education for working class families and improving the safety of textile mills. The concept of a dedicated planned community based around the ideals of worker self-management had been engaged in a number of times the world over, most of which failed to achieve a serious degree of longevity. It would instead be the implementation of these ideas organically from the working class itself, especially in the form of agricultural and consumer cooperatives (primarily during the processes of rural ) that would achieve the greatest successes in Ordrey in the centuries to come leading up to the 1975 Revolution.

During the Ordrish Revolution
During the Ordrish Revolution, the primary means of upholding economic stability in SRNO-controlled territories was the Community Welfare Council (CWC), a system built upon the ideals of and. One of the biggest changes was the adoption of the idea of based in the municipality, where economic activities became indistinguishable from the functions of local government. Agricultural cooperatives, some of the most robust and longstanding of these economic systems, often provided the model for the much broader-in-scope CWC to build upon. Since infrastructure, as well as supply lines in general, were often in disarray, SRNO placed an emphasis on "local solutions for local struggles", hoping to form redundancy measures to prevent risk of loss due to centralization of strategic resources during wartime. The CWC effectively oversaw all economic activity during the Revolution and during Reconstruction, and generally sought to minimize waste of materials above other concerns. This would be maintained until the establishment of Bonwenat in 1979, when most vital infrastructure had been restored in the country and supply lines between Provinces were again reliable.

Today
From the 1980s through to the modern day, the general trend has been of greater decentralization of the economy, marrying the ideas of the "local solutions" ethos with addressing concerns around inefficiencies that are no longer necessary in the survival and quality of life of individual communities. True nationally-owned operations are rare, and typically only exist for the purposes of consistency and/or convenience in delivery of either "economically vital" resources or services, with the vast majority of goods produced domestically being arranged through provincial or municipal planning organs with considerable input from individual Associate Compartments.

Types of enterprises
Enterprises in Ordrey are classified along lines of the scale at which a given Enterprise operates, as well as the degree of oversight by Bonwenat, the nation's economic coordiating authority. As of the current economic phase, the classifications of Enterprises are as follows:
 * Household-scale (Class-1): Informal and/or personal activities which generally operate without any registration or oversight. Small-scale enterprises that make below 10,000 Gonds annually operated by a single individual, family, or household fall into this category.
 * Individual and household enterprises
 * Community-scale (Class-2)
 * Agricultural cooperatives
 * Consumer cooperatives
 * Coastal and Freshwater Fishing cooperatives
 * Food processing enterprises
 * Light Manufacturing enterprises
 * Mechanics' cooperatives
 * Retail enterprises
 * Province-scale (Class-3)
 * Automotive enterprises
 * Construction enterprises
 * Consumer Goods enterprises
 * Electronics manufacturing enterprises
 * Forestry and lumber cooperatives
 * Heavy Manufacturing enterprises
 * Domestic logistics and shipping cooperatives
 * National-scale (Class-4): These enterprises are typically and thus have a domestic monopoly due to their importance to the national economy as a whole. As such, while Bonwenat is not a true central planning authority, it holds considerable influence on the day-to-day and macro-scale operations of the firms which operate them.
 * Aviation enterprises (Organized under the General Aviation Group)
 * Blue-Water Fishing cooperatives (Organized under the Sedic Sea Fishing Cooperative)
 * Domestic finance cooperatives (Organized under Tytoth)
 * International Logistics and Shipping enterprises
 * Mineral resource enterprises
 * Petrochemical enterprises
 * Shipbuilding enterprises
 * Telecommunications enterprises