Governments

Government has undergone serious changes since the period before the Inundation and the Fall of the West. While many nations continue to operate on what is fundamentally a 20th century level, experimental forms of government are taking root in communities in space and under the sea, alongside radical reworkings of traditional theories of economics. Governments are best understood as an expression of how power is exercised throughout a society, and will have a very clear and real effect upon the happiness and prosperity of citizens, both on Earth and offworld. In addition, nations also have an ideology, spanning the gamut from Reactionary, Conservative, Liberal, to Radical. These ideologies can best be understood as expressing the desire for change in global society, with Reactionary ideology wishing a return to a glorified past, Conservative wishing change to come slowly if at all, Liberal allowing moderate amounts of change, and Radical wishing to sweep the slate clean and write human history anew.