Each pavilion was also presided over (and largely funded) by a corporate sponsor who maintained and updated the pavilion’s contents in exchange for advertising and the opportunity to interact more authentically with potential customers. Each pavilion was focused on one single element of science or industry with a pavilion containing multiple shows, attractions, rides, and restaurants related to that overarching theme. Like the World’s Fairs of the decades earlier, Future World featured – at its height – nine fully self-contained pavilions. In the northern end of the park beyond the main entrance was Future World. All of the pavilions were sponsored by private companies with affiliations to the represented countries, and in turn were staffed primarily by actual citizens of the countries working through a J-1 visa agreement.
Eventually, World Showcase would play host to eleven country’s pavilions situated around a massive circular lagoon, each recreated with immense detail and offering attractions, restaurants, craftsmen, shops, and entertainment meant to bring a small piece of the country to the United States. There, detailed pavilions set out to recreate the corners of the globe. The southern end of the park was World Showcase, a tremendous display of international cooperation. When Epcot opened in 1982, it dispensed entirely with fantasy themed "lands" and instead contained two more concrete realms.
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