[ He will never tell because he is like the last person to talk about occasionally messing up your goal by a long shot, it's okay Freya. ]

Shinra was the one to discover mako technology. There's hardly a place in the world the company didn't touch. Outside of Midgar and Junon it wasn't as extreme, but a lot of small towns relied on Shinra as well. Mako's much more efficient than steam or coal, so nearly everyone turned to using it. And Shinra used that money to buy power: a city the company controlled, the news everyone watched...[ weapons and a private army, but that goes unsaid. ] Things like that.