The Pargold Mining Corporation was a government with the structure of a corporation that controlled much of the surface of The Station.
Origins
It was started by a young ambitious entrepreneur and philanthropist named Michael Pargold with the purpose of strip-mining the uninhabitable planet Pargold (which was named after him). However, the corporation soon ballooned into a having a much larger role when they expanded into construction, and then started providing protection for the citizens who resided in their areas of The Station.
Becoming a Government
After the fall of The Malthin Criminal Network, this protection expanded into a form of government when the corporation started making laws and offered shares of the company to all property holders in their territories. At this point, the founder Michael Pargold decided that the company would need a new structure to keep up with this growing demand for a government to fill the power void. Along with the existing board of the company and representatives from the citizens, he drafted a new charter for the corporation that made its goal the wellbeing of the actively working families living on The Station.