by Jezabelle Sherlock » Wed Jun 17, 2015 5:27 am
"Eh, I'm not gonna lie, there's good and bad. Class structure is based on your abilities and powers rather than how much money you have, there's a lot of nepotism too. There's lots of good social programs, you know, socialized medicine and the like. But if you have an ability that makes you more adept at a certain field, you're pretty much forced to work that. If I'm a healer but I want to be an artist? Well I can make art on my down time, they want me in a hospital tending to the sick and injured. Anything else would be 'selfish' and 'squandering my gift'. Jez made little air quotes as she talked.
"We're safe from hate crimes, but there's still some persecution... there always will be wherever you go though, so I guess that's nothing new. There's some state censorship, we're not allowed to demonstrate or protest, but they claim it's until we can get the country fully up and running with the Western world. Right now it's a developing nation, one time they'd have called second world.
"I make it sound worse than it is. Have you ever been to a place like Costa Rica? The people are poor, importing makes things cost more, but the people are happy. They have a home, it's easy to grow food and provide for a family, and for a lot of us it's way safer than being anywhere else."
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