Nabory

The nabory (from Luziycan nabor, "collection") was an early modern form of company and corporation in West Borea which began developing in the late 17th century, and played a prominent role during West Borea's industrialization. The nabory was a specific form of asset organization within the larger framework of economic sualny; it did not exist as a legal term, and originally referred to any sizeable enterprise with its primary factors of production under possession not being land.

Policy-wise however the emergence of the nabory as commonly discussed depended on an important development, which was a redesigned legal treatment of companies in the sualnic framework in West Borea that began in the 1650s, induced in the context of the transoceanic trade in Esquarium in a time where West Borea, Nordania, and Conitia interacted increasingly. This was the separation of the sualnic feudatory from the liege which had granted them the resources; as sualny considered the process of fief-granting only a transfer of the resources that the recipient had righfully earned through virtuous character, thinkers of the day chose to dissociate the feudatory from the liege entirely, thus rulers dealing with different feudatories will no longer consider them as parts of the feudatory's liege's domain, and rather as individuals possessing their property in their own right. The political suspicion that had underlied protectionism in West Borea, which viewed commerce between sualnic holdings in the context of the conflicts between each feudatory's lord, was largely removed with this change.

Although forming a company, still being an act of obtaining an estate, required recognition and allocation of resources (or rather, approval to use them) from the imperial state one was resident in, their status could now be respected across empires, and generally all types of fully sovereign polities. Thus, such sualnic estates could operate in multiple countries, owning factors of production in/of more than one country. Although expansions of operation across states was usually recognized only on a case-by-case basis, and a limit on ownership of land was imposed as a main condition, it was nonetheless enough for the development of extensive international corporate commercial activity. Land, in any case, was rendered a secondary factor of production by centralizing reforms across West Borea imposing strict restrictions on quantity owned to limit the size of noble estates, becoming one of the factors forcing enterprises to turn to more efficient production methods.

The most mobile of these assets and thus the most convenient to operate on for nabories were crafts, both their reproduceable knowledge and the artisans (the repertoires of which were known as 'collections' giving the nabory its name), which generally encountered little issues in passing customs, and thus crafts-based enterprises were the first to expand, setting up new workshops across West Borea. The setup of production and distribution facilities in foreign realms became a standard routine for transnational nabory enterprises, with land held in such processes typically lent from the host government rather than fully acquired. Following craft manufacturing, resource extraction, first of valuable bullion such as silver, and later of minerals and other raw materials in general, also evolved via the nabory to extend across political boundaries. This was followed by the spread of companies providing financial services. Nabories were able to integrate themselves into local markets without much trouble, but still remain in contact with their home country's economy as well.

The mobility of the nabory has been argued to be a major vector of the spread of industrialization during the West Borean industrial revolution. The expansion of nabories allowed the first industrialized areas of the continent, in coastal Luziyca and Dark Decades era Razaria, to access large new markets in other regions, whether those that provided demand such as heavily-populated Zesmynia, or provided supply of materials as in Kheratia; both required the development of industrial technology to meet these demands and process the influx of resources, while local presence of nabories provided initially exploited states with their own industry. Later, nabories expanded into Central Borea as part of colonialism, accessing markets in large, exploitation-prone states such as Hao Namor and Pasdan. Generally, nabories also assisted in the development of free trade and economic integration between West Borean states, although this trend was reversed by renewed protectionism amidst expansionist currents in the 19th century.

Legal definition

The legal definition of the nabory as used in West Borea today is remarkably different; it refers to any conglomerate with a single person ultimately responsible, which often rests upon, but may not necessarily need, noble authority.

Nabories as defined as this form some of the largest companies in West Borea and even Esquarium as a whole.