[quote=@ClocktowerEchos]
I honestly feel bad for any alien race studying the humans.

"Okay, so most of them are communists?"
"Sorta, some are more communists than others."
"But they all hate each other despite being communists?"
"To be fair, one of them is based on some old civilization they had way back when, Ramens or something."
"So we have ancient noodles and communists who hate each other, I think I sorta understand now?"
"Oh yeah, they also have space furries."
"..."
"What?"
"Fuck this, go find someone else to be the diplomat to them. Sounds like their race as a whole has multiple personality disorder."
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A big point of contention with the Neo-Soviets....are they are VERY cautious about technology-cybernetics, genetic modification being abused. So they regulate the hell out of them through their CentralGov-they use them, but it's all standard, safe, practiced methods. Genetic modification? Faster. Stronger. Longer. Nothing "frivolous". Same for cybernetics. And they are TERRIFIED of AI, outlawed it. So the Stepfords...

Well.

Triggered as fuck.

It makes sense when you realize their string of colonies was initially ruled/conquered by a shipboard adviser AI who went full HAL. And had....a far too astute understanding of human nature and how to play them against each other. Imagine....an "aristocracy" of collaberators, prison guards, to watch the rest. Spoiled and decadent-lemme put it this way, genetically modified, conditioned "pain slaves" were a thing they got pleasure from-and of course, the armies of genetically modified slave-soldiers....

Yeah.

They have alot of issues with the "frivolous" use of genetic modification after that *hell*.

Ironically, a certain religious lady from the best video game ever sums up their attitudes quite well:

[quote][i]"Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind."
— Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We must Dissent" (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project "Self-Aware Colony")

"Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our material resources, over to these... things... these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need for us?"
— Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We must Dissent" (Accompanies discovery of the "Industrial Nanorobotics" tech)[/i][/quote]