I think I have most of the setting laid out now. If we get this started there may be some minimal changes but what you see under setting details covers the core aspects of the game. I realize it is long, but I quite frankly can not believe in a world that can be explained in a few clumsy paragraphs. No such worlds exist outside 16 bit video games. 

Players need not read everything, only the subjects pertaining to their own character's knowledge.