The Augmentation Rights Coalition is a political advocacy organization of approximately 15,000 members that campaigns for the legal right to augment one's own body without corporate approval, licensing, or surveillance. In GLMZ, augmentation is technically legal but practically controlled — the corponations that manufacture augmentations also control the licensing, firmware, and maintenance systems, meaning that putting technology in your body means submitting that body to corporate oversight. ARC argues this is a fundamental violation of bodily autonomy.

ARC's campaigns target specific legal and regulatory issues: the right to install unlicensed augmentations, the right to modify corporate firmware on augmentations you've purchased, the right to refuse augmentation telemetry data collection, and the right to have augmentations maintained by non-corporate technicians. These are not radical demands — they are the augmentation equivalent of the right to repair your own car — but in a corporate-sovereign city where augmentation monopolies generate billions of Φ in recurring revenue, they are treated as existential threats.

The Coalition operates through legal challenges, public advocacy, and political lobbying, maintaining a deliberately respectable image that contrasts with the more radical movements in GLMZ's political landscape. ARC's members include lawyers, doctors, engineers, and other professionals who have the resources and social capital to fight corporate power through institutional channels.