Players will be members of an alien species that has not yet taken to the stars with Diesel-punk levels of technology, this species is in some ways similar to humans, however they are much more selfless and easy to brainwash into serving any cause under the sun. The Technocracy is a powerful high tech organization that has conquered half the planet and spread education however they recognized the danger of persuasion. Democracy and Freedom of speech were outlawed in order to better society, in order to be published books had to go through a complex screening process to make sure they wouldnt be vectors for memetic viruses. for a time peace was achieved.
Even with the education of the Technocracy, the Democratic Plague spread fast, while democracy has been tried before with some success on this planet, the form of democracy the plague made people believe in was unsustainable and seemed to warp the minds of those that view them into an even more collectivist state. some especially charismatic people called Demagogues seemed to be the major vectors. Technocracy forces assassinated some of these demagogues but this seemed to further anger the mobs.
The Revolution was bloody with Democratic forces voting to execute whoever the demagogues found undesirable, no longer was civilization to be found, just the crude instincts of the ancestors. The Technocracy is not without fault either, carpet bombing and in a few cases nuking entire cities.
The roleplay will take place in a dystopian Technocratic city on the brink of collapse, food is scarce, what was once a friendly atmosphere is now one of paranoia, the fear of losing rational thought and joining the Democratic hoards. Worse yet, The majority of the Technocratic military in the city has been, as an emergency converted to zealots, little more than zombies chanting propoganda about the technocracy without actually understanding what it meant.