Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170909002936

"The Alliance of the Conglomerations of The Americas, Sino-Federation, Eurasian Union, and the Pan African Republic are the foundations of our great democracy. From these nations arose our goals, our culture, and our dreams. They gave us your mission: To spread our democracy and our was across the stars and to convert those foolish enough or blind enough to follow any other way."

- The First Hegemon.

The Hegemony is a massive interstellar power ruling over vast portions of the Milky Way and it's satellites and even seeping into Andromeda. Within it's ranks are trillions of souls of both natural and created fashion (will explain this difference later). The Hegemony has made it it's mission to both united all of humanity and it's distant cousins and bring a Golden Age to the known universe by any means necessary. As a culture they are tolerant of most human cultures or accepted Xenos, but are highly xenophobic against ideas or cultures that don't fit their norm.

As a society it is a mess, a large stinking mess. They have elements of all human cultures thrown into their mix. It is also rather hierarchical with all sorts of ranks, positions, and what not that have grown around the Hegemony as it has aged and expanded. Now the basic ranks can be listed as such:

- Barons are either elected nobility (The governors and so on elected by the people who are then elevated to nobility), rich merchants and business men, or high ranking members of the party. They are the elite of the Hegemony's society and live in both the nice houses and generally the upper spires of Hegemony worlds.

- Citizens are the middle class of the Hegemony. They are middle ranking officials, artisans, and other more 'skilled labor'. They tend to live in the upper layers of the cities in rather nice apartments and large houses.

- Proles are the lower class doing more menial work like office clerks, desk jobs, and managers of factories and so on.

- Skids are those who live in the slums, are illegal residents, criminals, runaways, or other dregs. They tend to live outside of the cities or beneath them within the Hegemony and are deemed either 'savage' or 'beyond repair' and are left to scavenge around in the left overs from the cities. At times the State will impress some Skids into service (this actually happens many times) and will eventually promote them to Proles.

- Synths/Servants/Slaves are artificially created beings, indentured Proles, and exotic slaves all deemed the property of their owners. The Synths are the most important by far as they are the basic building block of the Hegemony as they do the labor deemed to 'cruel' or 'dangerous' for human hands work such as factory workers, miners, builders, and so on. They are created on a industrial scale and can also be sold for private use.

The Hegemony is built around creating a functioning society in which most people are provided for and live a good life. In this system all are expected to work in some shape or fashion for the state (although private businesses and enterprises are still a large part of society) everyone is expected to pitch in (through taxes) to the communal effort things like health care, education, and public funds are all provided for the community by the community. These funds are not allowed to be touched for any private affairs and such affairs must be financed out of pocket (although some loop holes exist). Now the state is also expected to provide the basic needs to it's people, things like: Housing, food, water, and other necessities as well as the materials needed to create them. Instead of having the citizens toil away for days only to watch others gain the Synths are used to do such work while everyone else enjoys the benefits of the Hegemony.

Government wise the Hegemony is a large dictatorship mixed with a republic with the overall leadership trusted into the hands of one individual: The Hegemon. Under the Hegemon fall the ministers, governors, and consuls elected by the people (through manged democracy) to represent or govern them. The Government tends to be tolerant to most ideas, complaints, and groups, but anything they deem illegal or unacceptable will be dealt with by force. This has given the Hegemony the image of a brutal dictatorship (which can be said to be rather unfounded). They also employ a whole host of police forces that either monitor the populace, hunt down fugitives, or drag out crimes form a individuals very mind. All of this is, of course, to keep a well ordered society running and to keep such dissidents and terrorists at bay.

Thoughts? 