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In 2055, the last governmental holdout was folded into the fledgling, ascendant United Earth Hegemony. It was an exciting new experiment, a socialist government led not by the old, fallible politicians, but by a new, greater, wiser species of humanity, Homo Hieronyma. The first members of this new Hominina species were painstakingly engineered by European and American genetic scientists at the very beginning, before the United Earth Hegemony had even been officially signed into existence. These now-legendary statespeople, the four Founders, were "born" in 2031, a year to the day before the formal founding of the United Earth Hegemony on July 16, 2032. They reached maturity quickly, and were taught everything they needed even faster. The decades following '55 were genuinely some of the best in human history. The four Founders, the first Hegemonists, soon were joined by a score and some change of Bureaucrats, who managed the smaller matters. These individuals, in a totality almost completely beyond argument, were wise, just, and empathetic leaders to Homo Saipens. But it took too long for occult scientists to redesign the old techniques, and that generation, save barely half a dozen very elderly hold-outs, had to be replaced by a second generation. These have not been so strong of character as their elders.

Some saw what the past members of their people accomplished, and it went to their heads. They became of the conviction that they are above the masses of mere humans not just in power but in everything. These few bad fruits soured the entire oligarchy as those convictions spread. Soon, only those left of the first generation were left. One Hegemonist and three Bureaucrats.

This new generation instituted a new order of things; they said to the common citizens 'If we really are better than you in every way, which we of course are, wouldn't it make more sense if you were only working for our benefit?' For the most part, the common people agreed.

That, in short, is the story of how Man's Golden Age ended, and just as suddenly as it had started.

But soon, in what little rebellion free-minded humans could find, the first Inter-Solar Banking Group was convened. They worked to establish new, underground markets, learning from the mistakes of both the Hegemony and it's capitalist predecessors. These immortal Bankers resolved that themselves and whatever successors they might have, would always endeavor to ensure fair play in the markets; there would be no monopolizing, no big conglomerates. It would be a market of many individuals, all encouraged to work for and with one another, not against.

It isn't perfect, but it's at the very least equal.

The setting of Totally Not is heavily cyberpunk, with augmented people and synthetically grown adults making up about 30% of the world population. Propaganda is everywhere within cities and, due to the sheer amount of bright neon signs that decorate the streets and buildings, night is no longer a thing. That isn't to say that there is no night, but it is always illuminated outside by something. The only way to see a starry sky is to take a ship over the ocean, or into space.

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