(thing) by corum Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:10:27
An inter-galaxy corporation which controls a vast proportion of the Imperial economy in Frank Herbert's Dune Cycle.

All the Great Houses own shares in CHOAM.
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(thing) by Pseudo_Intellectual Mon Jan 24 2000 at 3:13:52

The Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles. Difficult to define beyond this - an economic organization run (minority) by the Emperor and (majority) the Landsraad, dictating the particulars of interstellar and interplanetary trade with the Spacing Guild.

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