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	The party is the reaction to the Biesellite Free Market Party that has dominated the Republic’s politics since its independence. To this day and despite being banned, it campaigns for the immediate nationalisation of [[megacorporations\|megacorporate]] holdings, the expansion of worker’s rights, and then ultimately the dissolution of the [[Republic of Biesel]] after the promotion of worker’s unions to the point they can replace the Republic. However, being the only socialist party to have ever gained significant traction, it often attracts those with their own ideas of syndicalism, or those who aren’t syndicalist at all and instead some other flavour of socialist, so it has forever been uncertain as to whether they would be as extreme in their actions as they say they are — or, if these campaign messages are [[Republic_Security_&_Law_Enforcement#Biesel_Intelligence_Service\|fabricated]].		The party is the reaction to the Biesellite Free Market Party that has dominated the Republic’s politics since its independence. To this day and despite being banned, it campaigns for the immediate nationalisation of [[megacorporations\|megacorporate]] holdings, the expansion of worker’s rights, and then ultimately the dissolution of the [[Republic of Biesel]] after the promotion of worker’s unions to the point they can replace the Republic. However, being the only socialist party to have ever gained significant traction, it often attracts those with their own ideas of syndicalism, or those who aren’t syndicalist at all and instead some other flavour of socialist, so it has forever been uncertain as to whether they would be as extreme in their actions as they say they are — or, if these campaign messages are [[Republic_Security_&_Law_Enforcement#Biesel_Intelligence_Service\|fabricated]].

	Obtaining membership or associating with the SUL is a potentially criminal offence, one that is guaranteed to ~~result~~ in [[Republic_Security_&_Law_Enforcement#Biesel_Security_Services_Bureau\|~~Biesel Security Service Bureau~~]] or CCIA investigation ~~even if no charges or regulatory infractions are raised~~. Higher echelon members or those responsible for organising party events or membership drives are at risk of serious indictments, up to terrorism. '''You are at greater risk of losing your character should you play an SUL-affiliated person; discretion is advised.'''		Obtaining membership or associating with the SUL is a potentially criminal offence, one that is guaranteed to put someone on a watchlist (''and so must be noted in Security Records, if a character is an open member''), increasing the chance of a [[Republic_Security_&_Law_Enforcement#Biesel_Security_Services_Bureau\|BSSB]] or CCIA investigation and stricter punishments. Higher echelon members or those responsible for organising party events or membership drives are at risk of serious indictments, up to terrorism. '''You are at greater risk of losing your character should you play an SUL-affiliated person; discretion is advised.'''

	== Economics ==		== Economics ==

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	The party endeavours to implement a series of policies that will regulate the Republic of Biesel’s economy, implement some anti-trust laws, and increase taxes targeting megacorporations and the wealthy so as to level the playing field in the Republic’s markets and to establish a welfare state. It has explicitly set out to break the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]] and constituent companies monopolies and party messaging often claims they have been allowed to progress too far, which has seen it gain the ire of the megacorporations. The CSDF has also advocated for significantly increasing public education and health & social care funding, allowing public schools and health & social care services to better compete alongside private services. The party should not be mistaken for left wing or socialist though, and their vision only sees the megacorporations regulated enough to allow competition with local corporations, services, and public bodies.		The party endeavours to implement a series of policies that will regulate the Republic of Biesel’s economy, implement some anti-trust laws, and increase taxes targeting megacorporations and the wealthy so as to level the playing field in the Republic’s markets and to establish a welfare state. It has explicitly set out to break the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]] and constituent companies monopolies and party messaging often claims they have been allowed to progress too far, which has seen it gain the ire of the megacorporations. The CSDF has also advocated for significantly increasing public education and health & social care funding, allowing public schools and health & social care services to better compete alongside private services. The party should not be mistaken for left wing or socialist though, and their vision only sees the megacorporations regulated enough to allow competition with local corporations, services, and public bodies.

	With a notable [[skrell]] influence, as is expected for a party out of [[New Gibson]] and one led by a [[New_Gibson#Xoikku\|Xoikku]] skrell, the party has advocated for a [[Nralakk_Federation#Social_Compatibility_Index\|Social Compatibility Index]]-like system to be implemented in the Republic, with a scaling universal income based on one’s degree of impoverishment and contribution to the Republic of Biesel. The party has also taken an anti-synthetic stance, seeking to halt any further emancipation or support of owned or non-citizen [[IPC\|IPCs]], null the First Amendment that emancipated free IPCs and entitled them to citizenship and the rights thereof, bring back external IPC tagging at a national level, criminalise IPCs who do not clearly identify as such, and to decommission advanced AIs such as [[~~Notable_Synthetic~~#Huginn\|Huginn]] and [[~~Notable_Synthetic~~#Aura\|Aura]]. For all other species though, sans [[vaurca]] which they have remained silent on, the CSDF strongly advocates for equality, and putting in place strong anti-hate laws that prevent speech and actions that threaten the Republic’s diverse and multicultural environment.		With a notable [[skrell]] influence, as is expected for a party out of [[New Gibson]] and one led by a [[New_Gibson#Xoikku\|Xoikku]] skrell, the party has advocated for a [[Nralakk_Federation#Social_Compatibility_Index\|Social Compatibility Index]]-like system to be implemented in the Republic, with a scaling universal income based on one’s degree of impoverishment and contribution to the Republic of Biesel. The party has also taken an anti-synthetic stance, seeking to halt any further emancipation or support of owned or non-citizen [[IPC\|IPCs]], null the First Amendment that emancipated free IPCs and entitled them to citizenship and the rights thereof, bring back external IPC tagging at a national level, criminalise IPCs who do not clearly identify as such, and to decommission advanced AIs such as [[Notable_Synthetics#Huginn\|Huginn]] and [[Notable_Synthetics#Aura\|Aura]]. For all other species though, sans [[vaurca]] which they have remained silent on, the CSDF strongly advocates for equality, and putting in place strong anti-hate laws that prevent speech and actions that threaten the Republic’s diverse and multicultural environment.

	Despite its progressive stances, the CSDF takes an anti-immigration stance. The party has stated that temporarily halting citizenship and asylum applications or severely toughening up the application process is necessary for the Republic to effectively handle the strain on its systems which now are exaggerated by the [[Republic_of_Biesel#The_Effects_of_the_Phoron_Scarcity\|Phoron Scarcity]]. It is adamant that said anti-immigration stance is not a result of xenophobia.		Despite its progressive stances, the CSDF takes an anti-immigration stance. The party has stated that temporarily halting citizenship and asylum applications or severely toughening up the application process is necessary for the Republic to effectively handle the strain on its systems which now are exaggerated by the [[Republic_of_Biesel#The_Effects_of_the_Phoron_Scarcity\|Phoron Scarcity]]. It is adamant that said anti-immigration stance is not a result of xenophobia.

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	====Minor Parties====		====Minor Parties====
	'''Hadiist Party of Tau Ceti'''		'''Hadiist Party of Tau Ceti'''

	The Hadiist Party of Tau Ceti is a Biesellite Hadiist party that seeks to apply [[Notable_Tajara#President_Njadrasanukii_Hadii\|President Njadrasanukii Hadii]]’s teachings to the Republic of Biesel and its problems.		The Hadiist Party of Tau Ceti is a Biesellite Hadiist party that seeks to apply [[Notable_Tajara#President_Njadrasanukii_Hadii\|President Njadrasanukii Hadii]]’s teachings to the Republic of Biesel and its problems.

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	'''Syndicated Union of Labourers (Banned)'''		'''Syndicated Union of Labourers (Banned)'''

	The '''Syndicated Union of Labourers (SUL)''' is a radical syndicalist party that seeks to revolutionise the Republic of Biesel into a system of worker’s unions, as seen on [[Himeo]].		The '''Syndicated Union of Labourers (SUL)''' is a radical syndicalist party that seeks to revolutionise the Republic of Biesel into a system of worker’s unions, as seen on [[Himeo]].

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	In the core worlds of Humanity’s power, built upon a center of [[phoron]] deposits and trade, the '''Federal Republic of Biesel''' is an independent state and considered the economic and social centre of the [[Orion Spur]]. The young Republic as it is known today came to be in 2452, and since its independence it has only grown stronger, its population flourishing, ignorant or uncaring as [[NanoTrasen]] maintained a vice grip over the Republic not only economically, but politically and socially as well.		In the core worlds of Humanity’s power, built upon a center of [[phoron]] deposits and trade, the '''Federal Republic of Biesel''' is an independent state and considered the economic and social centre of the [[Orion Spur]]. The young Republic as it is known today came to be in 2452, and since its independence it has only grown stronger, its population flourishing, ignorant or uncaring as [[NanoTrasen]] maintained a vice grip over the Republic not only economically, but politically and socially as well.

	However, in recent years, that is changing. The ~~‘’’Phoron Scarcity’’’~~ has shaken the very foundations of the republic, not only in regards to NanoTrasen’s monopoly, but also the role it plays on the wider stage of the Orion Spur. Once only holding territory in Tau Ceti, today the Republic of Biesel extends across much of the formerly Solarian Middle and Outer Ring, reaching the new border of the massive [[Coalition of Colonies]], creating the [[Corporate Reconstruction Zone]]. The Republic of Biesel's expansion into former Solarian territories was met with both applause and total rejection from its populace Combined with the mounting issues of the Phoron Scarcity, the CRZ would prove the final nail in the coffin for the Republic’s political establishment, which was shaken drastically in 2462. However, Tau Ceti remains one of the most populated systems in Human space, and easily the richest in the galaxy thanks to NanoTrasen, and now the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]].		However, in recent years, that is changing. The '''Phoron Scarcity''' has shaken the very foundations of the republic, not only in regards to NanoTrasen’s monopoly, but also the role it plays on the wider stage of the Orion Spur. Once only holding territory in Tau Ceti, today the Republic of Biesel extends across much of the formerly Solarian Middle and Outer Ring, reaching the new border of the massive [[Coalition of Colonies]], creating the [[Corporate Reconstruction Zone]]. The Republic of Biesel's expansion into former Solarian territories was met with both applause and total rejection from its populace Combined with the mounting issues of the Phoron Scarcity, the CRZ would prove the final nail in the coffin for the Republic’s political establishment, which was shaken drastically in 2462. However, Tau Ceti remains one of the most populated systems in Human space, and easily the richest in the galaxy thanks to NanoTrasen, and now the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]].

	== The Effects of the Phoron Scarcity ==		== The Effects of the Phoron Scarcity ==

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	'''Anomalies Studies:''' The Republic's other greatest scientific advancement is the study of the anomalous properties of bluespace. Xenoarchaeology and the study of Alden-Saraspova activity within the Romanovich Cloud is a well-established field in Tau Ceti, and many aspiring anomalists and bluespace researchers venture into Tau Ceti to study the high amount of anomalous items and artifacts that are unearthed within the Romanovich Cloud. Strangely, the rates of anomalous activity emanating from the Romanovich Cloud have steadily increased as phoron has been mined.		'''Anomalies Studies:''' The Republic's other greatest scientific advancement is the study of the anomalous properties of bluespace. Xenoarchaeology and the study of Alden-Saraspova activity within the Romanovich Cloud is a well-established field in Tau Ceti, and many aspiring anomalists and bluespace researchers venture into Tau Ceti to study the high amount of anomalous items and artifacts that are unearthed within the Romanovich Cloud. Strangely, the rates of anomalous activity emanating from the Romanovich Cloud have steadily increased as phoron has been mined.

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	In the core worlds of Humanity’s power, built upon a center of [[phoron]] deposits and trade, the '''Federal Republic of Biesel''' is an independent state and considered the economic and social centre of the [[Orion Spur]]. The young Republic as it is known today came to be in 2452, and since its independence it has only grown stronger, its population flourishing, ignorant or uncaring as [[NanoTrasen]] maintained a vice grip over the Republic not only economically, but politically and socially as well.		In the core worlds of Humanity’s power, built upon a center of [[phoron]] deposits and trade, the '''Federal Republic of Biesel''' is an independent state and considered the economic and social centre of the [[Orion Spur]]. The young Republic as it is known today came to be in 2452, and since its independence it has only grown stronger, its population flourishing, ignorant or uncaring as [[NanoTrasen]] maintained a vice grip over the Republic not only economically, but politically and socially as well.

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	[[Notable_Humans#President_Ake_Torvald\|President Torvald]] has enacted policies attempting to limit the damage of the situation, keeping the economy afloat. Interest rates have dropped to near zero, bills have been signed into law that give substantial subsidies to new facilities built that supply alternatives to phoron — a boon to [[Einstein Engines]] — but it’s only barely keeping the flood wall from breaking. More extremely, the Republic and its [[megacorporations]] have officially begun to ration phoron, with much of the phoron and its components reserved in the state’s strategic stockpiles. While this rationing has relieved the stress of the scarcity from many people, it has done so by transferring it onto others, due to its unequal nature. Less affluent neighbourhoods find their infrastructure allowed to age and fall apart, becoming unreliable; hardware stores and clinics supply older, non-phoronic wares that are a notable downgrade. More affluent neighbourhoods continue to have phoronic infrastructure maintained, if at much greater cost and sparingly where possible and, while still supplied with phoronic hardware, medicines, etc., the prices have soared.		[[Notable_Humans#President_Ake_Torvald\|President Torvald]] has enacted policies attempting to limit the damage of the situation, keeping the economy afloat. Interest rates have dropped to near zero, bills have been signed into law that give substantial subsidies to new facilities built that supply alternatives to phoron — a boon to [[Einstein Engines]] — but it’s only barely keeping the flood wall from breaking. More extremely, the Republic and its [[megacorporations]] have officially begun to ration phoron, with much of the phoron and its components reserved in the state’s strategic stockpiles. While this rationing has relieved the stress of the scarcity from many people, it has done so by transferring it onto others, due to its unequal nature. Less affluent neighbourhoods find their infrastructure allowed to age and fall apart, becoming unreliable; hardware stores and clinics supply older, non-phoronic wares that are a notable downgrade. More affluent neighbourhoods continue to have phoronic infrastructure maintained, if at much greater cost and sparingly where possible and, while still supplied with phoronic hardware, medicines, etc., the prices have soared.
	Due to the unstable state of the Spur, the [[Tau Ceti Armed Forces]] remains very high on the priority list for phoron allocations. [[Zavodskoi_Interstellar\|Arms factories]] and [[Reade\|military shipbuilding docks]] rarely have shortages; the fleets always have enough fluidic [[phoron]] for their [[Interstellar_Travel#Bluespace_Travel\|bluespace drives]], and those within the enlisted ranks of the [[TCAF]] find themselves in as good a position as the middle class (one of the top reasons enlistment rates haven’t plummeted since the [[Peacekeeper Mandate]] saw TCAF ~~opinions plummet~~). President Torvald has promised these are temporary measures but, for now, there are no signs this will change.		Due to the unstable state of the Spur, the [[Tau Ceti Armed Forces]] remains very high on the priority list for phoron allocations. [[Zavodskoi_Interstellar\|Arms factories]] and [[Reade\|military shipbuilding docks]] rarely have shortages; the fleets always have enough fluidic [[phoron]] for their [[Interstellar_Travel#Bluespace_Travel\|bluespace drives]], and those within the enlisted ranks of the [[TCAF]] find themselves in as good a position as the middle class (one of the top reasons enlistment rates haven’t plummeted since the [[Peacekeeper Mandate]] saw opinions on the TCAF nosedive). President Torvald has promised these are temporary measures but, for now, there are no signs this will change.

	Unemployment is at an all-time high, with sustainable jobs exceedingly rare and, as crime has skyrocketed, less affluent neighborhoods have changed massively over the past five years. More ghettos are cropping up, and places such as [[Mendell City]]’s [[Mendell City#District_6\|District 6]], [[Mendell City#District_11\|District 11]], and [[Mendell City#District_12\|District 12]] look more run down than ever, deprioritised of phoronic infrastructure maintenance. Brownouts and blackouts are of frequent occurrences, as their phoronics based infrastructure (such as phoronic superconductive cabling) falls into disrepair or is unfitted for use elsewhere. It has a cruel similarity to the Alliance's abandonment of their outer worlds during the [[Sol_Alliance_History#2462-65:_The_Solarian_Civil_War\|Collapse]]. Criminal organizations have filled in the vacuum, allowed to run the districts as they see fit, and be largely unbothered by law enforcement, who only interfere when any violence within these areas spills out into other, less dilapidated parts of the city; in which case the standard response has been to violently bludgeon it back into containment.		Unemployment is at an all-time high, with sustainable jobs exceedingly rare and, as crime has skyrocketed, less affluent neighborhoods have changed massively over the past five years. More ghettos are cropping up, and places such as [[Mendell City]]’s [[Mendell City#District_6\|District 6]], [[Mendell City#District_11\|District 11]], and [[Mendell City#District_12\|District 12]] look more run down than ever, deprioritised of phoronic infrastructure maintenance. Brownouts and blackouts are of frequent occurrences, as their phoronics based infrastructure (such as phoronic superconductive cabling) falls into disrepair or is unfitted for use elsewhere. It has a cruel similarity to the Alliance's abandonment of their outer worlds during the [[Sol_Alliance_History#2462-65:_The_Solarian_Civil_War\|Collapse]]. Criminal organizations have filled in the vacuum, allowed to run the districts as they see fit, and be largely unbothered by law enforcement, who only interfere when any violence within these areas spills out into other, less dilapidated parts of the city; in which case the standard response has been to violently bludgeon it back into containment.

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	Unemployment is at an all-time high, with sustainable jobs exceedingly rare and, as crime has skyrocketed, less affluent neighborhoods have changed massively over the past five years. More ghettos are cropping up, and places such as [[Mendell City]]’s [[Mendell City#District_6\|District 6]], [[Mendell City#District_11\|District 11]], and [[Mendell City#District_12\|District 12]] look more run down than ever, deprioritised of phoronic infrastructure maintenance. Brownouts and blackouts are of frequent occurrences, as their phoronics based infrastructure (such as phoronic superconductive cabling) falls into disrepair or is unfitted for use elsewhere. It has a cruel similarity to the Alliance's abandonment of their outer worlds during the [[Sol_Alliance_History#2462-65:_The_Solarian_Civil_War\|Collapse]]. Criminal organizations have filled in the vacuum, allowed to run the districts as they see fit, and be largely unbothered by law enforcement, who only interfere when any violence within these areas spills out into other, less dilapidated parts of the city; in which case the standard response has been to violently bludgeon it back into containment.		Unemployment is at an all-time high, with sustainable jobs exceedingly rare and, as crime has skyrocketed, less affluent neighborhoods have changed massively over the past five years. More ghettos are cropping up, and places such as [[Mendell City]]’s [[Mendell City#District_6\|District 6]], [[Mendell City#District_11\|District 11]], and [[Mendell City#District_12\|District 12]] look more run down than ever, deprioritised of phoronic infrastructure maintenance. Brownouts and blackouts are of frequent occurrences, as their phoronics based infrastructure (such as phoronic superconductive cabling) falls into disrepair or is unfitted for use elsewhere. It has a cruel similarity to the Alliance's abandonment of their outer worlds during the [[Sol_Alliance_History#2462-65:_The_Solarian_Civil_War\|Collapse]]. Criminal organizations have filled in the vacuum, allowed to run the districts as they see fit, and be largely unbothered by law enforcement, who only interfere when any violence within these areas spills out into other, less dilapidated parts of the city; in which case the standard response has been to violently bludgeon it back into containment.

	Phoron black markets and the smugglers who supply them have exploded within the Republic, and though they are not yet utilized by the population at large, their presence is steadily growing. Many have come to rely on them for everything from replacement [[Phoron#Applications_of_Phoron\|phone/PDA-use SMES cells, to superconductive cabling, to phoronic medications]] — often stolen. Smuggling routes into [[Tau Ceti]] all lead to the tradeport moon of [[Valkyrie]], a nexus for criminal activity. Valkyrie has been hit especially hard by the economic slowdown experienced across the [[Orion Spur]], and its many port workers struggle to make ends meet; it is no surprise that a great many of them now participate in this smuggling activity. With these black marketers paying well for phoronic goods, petty theft of phoron-based equipment from the workplace has reached the top three reasons why an employee contract is terminated within Biesel, despite the unemployment crisis all but ensuring the fired employee will be unable to find another job.		Phoron black markets and the smugglers who supply them have exploded within the Republic, and though they are not yet utilized by the population at large, their presence is steadily growing. Many have come to rely on them for everything from replacement [[Phoron#Applications_of_Phoron\|phone/PDA-use SMES cells, to superconductive cabling, to phoronic medications]] — often stolen. Smuggling routes into [[Tau Ceti]] all lead to the tradeport moon of [[Valkyrie]], a nexus for criminal activity. Valkyrie has been hit especially hard by the economic slowdown experienced across the [[Orion Spur]], and its many port workers struggle to make ends meet; it is no surprise that a great many of them now participate in this smuggling activity. With these black marketers paying well for phoronic goods, petty theft of phoron-based equipment from the workplace has reached the top three reasons why an employee contract is terminated within Biesel, despite the unemployment crisis all but ensuring the fired employee will be unable to find another job.

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	[[Notable_Humans#President_Ake_Torvald\|President Torvald]] has enacted policies attempting to limit the damage of the situation, keeping the economy afloat. Interest rates have dropped to near zero, bills have been signed into law that give substantial subsidies to new facilities built that supply alternatives to phoron — a boon to [[Einstein Engines]] — but it’s only barely keeping the flood wall from breaking. More extremely, the Republic and its [[megacorporations]] have officially begun to ration phoron, with much of the phoron and its components reserved in the state’s strategic stockpiles. While this rationing has relieved the stress of the scarcity from many people, it has done so by transferring it onto others, due to its unequal nature. Less affluent neighbourhoods find their infrastructure allowed to age and fall apart, becoming unreliable; hardware stores and clinics supply older, non-phoronic wares that are a notable downgrade. More affluent neighbourhoods continue to have phoronic infrastructure maintained, if at much greater cost and sparingly where possible and, while still supplied with phoronic hardware, medicines, etc., the prices have soared.		[[Notable_Humans#President_Ake_Torvald\|President Torvald]] has enacted policies attempting to limit the damage of the situation, keeping the economy afloat. Interest rates have dropped to near zero, bills have been signed into law that give substantial subsidies to new facilities built that supply alternatives to phoron — a boon to [[Einstein Engines]] — but it’s only barely keeping the flood wall from breaking. More extremely, the Republic and its [[megacorporations]] have officially begun to ration phoron, with much of the phoron and its components reserved in the state’s strategic stockpiles. While this rationing has relieved the stress of the scarcity from many people, it has done so by transferring it onto others, due to its unequal nature. Less affluent neighbourhoods find their infrastructure allowed to age and fall apart, becoming unreliable; hardware stores and clinics supply older, non-phoronic wares that are a notable downgrade. More affluent neighbourhoods continue to have phoronic infrastructure maintained, if at much greater cost and sparingly where possible and, while still supplied with phoronic hardware, medicines, etc., the prices have soared.
	Due to the unstable state of the Spur, the [[Tau Ceti Armed Forces]] remains very high on the priority list for phoron allocations. [[Zavodskoi_Interstellar\|Arms factories]] and [[Reade\|military shipbuilding docks]] rarely have shortages; the fleets always have enough fluidic [[phoron]] for their [[Interstellar_Travel#Bluespace_Travel\|bluespace drives]], and those within the enlisted ranks of the [[TCAF]] find themselves in as good a position as the middle class (one of the top reasons enlistment rates haven’t plummeted since the [[Peacekeeper Mandate]] saw TCAF ~~opinions plummet~~). President Torvald has promised these are temporary measures but, for now, there are no signs this will change.		Due to the unstable state of the Spur, the [[Tau Ceti Armed Forces]] remains very high on the priority list for phoron allocations. [[Zavodskoi_Interstellar\|Arms factories]] and [[Reade\|military shipbuilding docks]] rarely have shortages; the fleets always have enough fluidic [[phoron]] for their [[Interstellar_Travel#Bluespace_Travel\|bluespace drives]], and those within the enlisted ranks of the [[TCAF]] find themselves in as good a position as the middle class (one of the top reasons enlistment rates haven’t plummeted since the [[Peacekeeper Mandate]] saw opinions on the TCAF nosedive). President Torvald has promised these are temporary measures but, for now, there are no signs this will change.

	Unemployment is at an all-time high, with sustainable jobs exceedingly rare and, as crime has skyrocketed, less affluent neighborhoods have changed massively over the past five years. More ghettos are cropping up, and places such as [[Mendell City]]’s [[Mendell City#District_6\|District 6]], [[Mendell City#District_11\|District 11]], and [[Mendell City#District_12\|District 12]] look more run down than ever, deprioritised of phoronic infrastructure maintenance. Brownouts and blackouts are of frequent occurrences, as their phoronics based infrastructure (such as phoronic superconductive cabling) falls into disrepair or is unfitted for use elsewhere. It has a cruel similarity to the Alliance's abandonment of their outer worlds during the [[Sol_Alliance_History#2462-65:_The_Solarian_Civil_War\|Collapse]]. Criminal organizations have filled in the vacuum, allowed to run the districts as they see fit, and be largely unbothered by law enforcement, who only interfere when any violence within these areas spills out into other, less dilapidated parts of the city; in which case the standard response has been to violently bludgeon it back into containment.		Unemployment is at an all-time high, with sustainable jobs exceedingly rare and, as crime has skyrocketed, less affluent neighborhoods have changed massively over the past five years. More ghettos are cropping up, and places such as [[Mendell City]]’s [[Mendell City#District_6\|District 6]], [[Mendell City#District_11\|District 11]], and [[Mendell City#District_12\|District 12]] look more run down than ever, deprioritised of phoronic infrastructure maintenance. Brownouts and blackouts are of frequent occurrences, as their phoronics based infrastructure (such as phoronic superconductive cabling) falls into disrepair or is unfitted for use elsewhere. It has a cruel similarity to the Alliance's abandonment of their outer worlds during the [[Sol_Alliance_History#2462-65:_The_Solarian_Civil_War\|Collapse]]. Criminal organizations have filled in the vacuum, allowed to run the districts as they see fit, and be largely unbothered by law enforcement, who only interfere when any violence within these areas spills out into other, less dilapidated parts of the city; in which case the standard response has been to violently bludgeon it back into containment.