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*Nods, taking in the scene*
Fascinating indeed. You said this is a meaningful civilization to you?
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Of course.  Socialist, but degenerated enough from its prior ideals that, in some places, it's a kleptocracy with a red coat of paint.  Everyone skims a little off the top and treats their sons and daughters like royalty; you stay in line and you get your pork, same as the rest of 'em.  Princelings, I think they were called in the old People's Republic of China.

*I smirk.*

I ought to find myself a princeling or two to live off.