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 After flubbing her attempt at soapboxing in the Shouting Quarter, Bella gets into a tussle with a member of the political party the E'ton Shadowlords, creatures of such unbelievable privilege that they're born with these ethereal mutations and incredible prospects. 

 There's a reason I depict the hyper wealthy as snakes or lizards or ethereal marble creatures. You might think it more poignant that these guys should be human because it highlights human greed or whatever. 

 Nah nah, the reason (and this is one of my core political beliefs as an older liberal fella, AND one of the major points of the game) is that wealth inequality in the UK is WAY MORE IMPORTANT than any of other stuff liberal folks talk about.  Solve that shit and solve the world. 

 Not to mention the fact that the UK is responsible for 40% of the hiding of global assets from taxation. $32 trillion has gone through the City and out into overseas (non-independent) territories. Next is the Netherlands, 7%.  Our politicians are a literal blight on the world. 

 If that point is contentious to you I would recommend not buying the game beeeeecause Bella's gonna drive you up the wall with her modest and sensible opinion of "I should be able to afford to live a human life by working five days a week". 

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I like your sentiments and agree, though Annexian or "Murican" as your fic calls it. I like a UK guy "David Icke". Some call him nutty but he'd have to have BIG stones to believe as he does and say what he says. I think you need some element of 'de-humanization' or at least 'alienation' to turn it into "Good guys vs bad guys" if you want a social change message. There was a thing in a classic scifi "The Men in the Jungle" by Norman Spinrad where the elites had public pageants for their atrocities to give the impression they were merely "Luckier" rather than the monsters (totally human) that they were.