[quote=@Lucius Cypher]
Just doing a bit of digging around, but as it turns out the “real world” in overlord is pretty dystopian. Long story short but corporations have taken over government and a lot of public services like education and welfare end up becoming privatize and tuition based. Basically means you have to pay outta your own pocket for things like public school and being poor. Minimum education needed to enter the workforce is elementary at most. Ainz himself only achieved a middle school education.

Whack.
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Yeah, it's why Rodias is so happy to actually eat Flan's tasty food since he couldn't afford anything as good in the real world. I've implied that Dr.Drd's life was a corporate nightmare, and being a programmer, he ultimately knew that he was part of the problem by automating away jobs but didn't/couldn't do a thing about it. I'm sure that reading between the lines of the snippets of the other creator's lives in the various posts would reveal similar dystopian disgruntlement. It also implies why YGGDRASIL is such an escape for the creators.