While Rufus still has the Turks by his side and has wealth and influence of his own, the Shinra Electric Power Company is pretty much gone. The Remnant: Following the events of VII, Shinra barely exists anymore - its executive board are all dead aside from Reeve (who founds his own group, the World Regenesis Organization) and Palmer ( who is never mentioned in media after the game), they've lost their base of operations and most of their military forces and resources, and people are grateful to the planet for saving them from Meteor, so they refuse to use mako anymore.They also have a dominating influence over the rest of the world, since most towns use mako reactors to sustain themselves and Shinra has the military might to conquer them by force if anyone felt like trying to rise against them. One Nation Under Copyright: They rule Midgar in practice but not name, since the city actually has a mayor, who lampshades he's powerless and Shinra is the one running things.Megacorp: They're a power company that runs Midgar, builds and maintains their own personal army, and manufactures numerous consumer products.Meaningful Name: According to Yoshinori Kitase, the word "Shinra" derives from the word "myth" in Japanese (神話, shinwa) tying into how Shinra, and many people associated with them, were all about becoming gods and controlling everything.The Man Behind the Monsters: Every antagonist in the Final Fantasy VII universe can be linked back to them, as it was their discovery of Jenova that allowed scientists like Hojo and Hollander to create beings like Sephiroth and Genesis, and their mako reactors are the reason the planet is in such a miserable state due to draining the lifestream to refine into energy.Evil Tower of Ominousness: Their headquarters is a 70-story skyscraper towering over Midgar.Evil, Inc.: Very few moral people work within Shinra's walls, and the few that do tend to end up leaving the company, like Gast and Lucrecia.
Corporate Warfare: Shinra has a private army consisting of various types of military troopers, genetically-augmented SOLDIER members, and a wide array of robots and mecha.Arc Villain: They act as the initial antagonists of Final Fantasy VII within Midgar, until Sephiroth puts a sword through President Shinra's gut and the narrative turns attention to his schemes and the party leaves Midgar to pursue him.Their headquarters is Midgar, an advanced metropolis in the middle of a wasteland thanks to their mako reactors draining the life from the region. A Megacorp that effectively controls the planet due to their monopoly of mako, a highly efficient energy source that allowed them to corner the power market and expand their power and influence.