Observed annually on March 14th, Founder's Debt Day commemorates the 2189 signing of the Meridian Compact, the legal instrument by which HelixCore Consolidated, Nakamura-Voss Infrastructure, and the Pelletier Group jointly incorporated the Great Lakes Corridor into what became GLMZ. Corponation employees are required to attend mandatory 'gratitude assemblies' at their workplace hubs, during which productivity metrics from the previous fiscal year are displayed publicly alongside corporate benevolence tallies — subsidized meals provided, medical debts forgiven, housing vouchers distributed. The holiday's official name references the concept that citizens owe their safety and opportunity to the founding corponations, a framing that street culture has long rebranded with open contempt.