Key Factions:

  1. The Regime: A decaying oligarchy clinging to power through propaganda and brute force.
  2. The Rebels: Theme word for both is “Resist”
    • Traditionalists: Nostalgic for a mythic “golden age,” using religion/nationalism to justify violence.
    • Technocrats: Ruthlessly pragmatic, believing a “perfect” society requires purging dissent.
  3. The Community: A persecuted, non-violent group that models an alternative way of living—serving others, rejecting consumerism, and embracing disciplined inner growth.
  4. Lay people
    1. slave – wage slave class
    2. poor and foreigner
    3. merchant class – think themselves free but enslaved by market and consumption
    4. uber wealthy – enslaved by passions and fear of losing wealth / power