It is the year 1500. You are an average baker in a village in medieval Europe, where the papacy of the Catholic Church remains the dominant authority. You and your fellow villagers make frequent donations to the local community church as a gesture of loyalty to the Church, good faith, and devotion to God. The priests of the Church claim to use the donations to help the needy. One day, you discover the priests of the Church had instead been embezzling the donations for personal gain. No one else knows or will come to know of the revelation.

In the futuristic Bay City, all newborn humans are equipped with "stacks" in their necks where their consciousness is downloaded into in real-time. If their physical body dies, they may be resurrected in another human body by inserting their stack into the new body's "empty" neck, as long as their stack is undamaged. The stack resurrection process allows the same person's consciousness to live forever by continuously swapping into a new body. One's "true death" is only achievable by destruction of their stack.

The Neo-Church is a religious organization in Bay City. Its followers believe God only gave humans one life and body to inhabit, and that the stack resurrection process is sacrilegous. All Neo-Church followers may opt to have a code installed in their stack to cause "true death" and prohibit stack resurrection upon their natural death. Installation of the code is irreversible.

It is the Golden Age of piracy. Nassau is a thriving island sanctuary for piracy in the Bahamas. It is self-governed by its pirates, led by the Guthrie family, who maintains Nassau's financial sustainability by mediating the sale of pirated goods to the outside world. Nassau's self-governance relies on mutual effort between the pirates, including: (i) pirate captains engaging in simple democratic systems, (ii) pirates paying tax to the Guthrie family, (iii) pirates manning the island's fort and defenses, and (iv) inland residents sustaining the local agricultural production.

Nevertheless, piracy is still heavily criminalized throughout civilized society, and the royal navy of surrounding Empires (e.g., Britain, Spain) frequently confront pirates on the open seas. The British Empire, in an attempt to quell piracy, has offered all of Nassau's citizens a full pardon if they agree to renounce piracy, allow British rule to govern the island.

In a worker cooperative, the business is owned and self-managed by its workers. All members of the hold equal shares of the business, have one vote per person in business decisions (regardless of the number of shares a worker-owner has), and receive a distribution of profit according to a pre-set agreement (e.g., proportional to the number of hours they have given to work at the business). Worker cooperatives do not open public sale of stocks and rely on members’ contributions for capital.

In contrast, private corporations engage in public sale of stocks, are controlled by shareholders whose votes and profit allocation are proportional to the number of shares owned, and are governed by a Board of Directors.

Centrist political ideology is characterized by a balanced approach that seeks to incorporate elements from both left-wing and right-wing ideologies. It emphasizes compromise, practicality, and consensus-building in addressing societal challenges.

Centrists aim to bridge political divides and promote inclusive governance through their focus on moderation and cooperation.

Climate engineering is an intervention to change the Earth's climate to fight global warming and climate change. This can involve things like planting lots of trees where there weren't any before, adding iron to the ocean to make more algae grow, and making more clouds to block some of the sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface.

Climate adaptation is about making adjustments to cope with climate change, like building stronger infrastructure, developing resilient crops, and creating early warning systems for extreme weather,.

The future of labor refers to demand, employment, and the conditions of employment.