>>6339087>>6341853>>6338760>>6346714BananasQM asked for some feedback on his worldbuilding so I will give my honest opinion. First of all, I commend BananasQM approach he is one of the few QMs here who addresses real world geopolitical and socioeconomic themes, his vision is imbued with THE MORAL PURPOSE I really appreciate this and am always enthused as I believe the conjunction between fantasy and NONFICTIONAL ROLEPLAYING is the most fertile and underexplored frontier of the imagination, the more nonfictional borrowing and real world / historical, political cultural economic detail you infuse into your games, the more believable they become.
That said, I personally would not have gone with "The Italian Mafia" in his worldbuilding setting. I actually liked BananasQM idea of a MASLOW HIERARCHY of Needs ARCOLOGY with the strictly segmented levels and citizens rights and incomes etc. But here is how I would have done it:
Have you heard of this technomonarchist highly stratified society. They were once pirates raiding along the TRUCIAN COAST until a colonial megacorporation came along and completely re-engineered their entire state
This fantasy land is called THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and their city, Dubai, is 51% Indian, 16% Pakistani, perhaps 10% or so Bangladeshi, Filipinos, maybe only 10%-15% native Arab Emiratis. (Does the intended direction of this engineered labour demographic sound familiar??) The UAE is incidentally part of both the Abraham Accords and the US Artemis Accords Moon Project lol, so maybe they will take this ideal stratified labour / worker income composition into future cities in space hehe
Meanwhile, the UAE is allegedly orchestrating resource wars with Hemedti / RSF janjaweed in Sudan, over control of agriculture, banking and naval port chokepoints (see el-Fasher siege and city massacre, mostly unreported)
>Future stratified technomonarchist city state>50-80% low income workforce Indian, Bangladeshi, Filipino>native population proportion reduced to 10%>ruled by desert tribal CEO techno-KingThis is the Peter Thiel a16z Andreessen, Yarvin technomonarchist vision (lol just need the Prometheus statue
>>6341052 ) I would use UAE, Dubai, or say Saudi Arabia NEOM, as models for a future techno city state arcology. As tech people endlessly repeat and re-paraphrase the old William Gibson refrain, the future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed
