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A MIDIAN CITY NOTECARD
"World History"
August 2009
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN WHICH MIDIAN IS SET
The last thing the men behind the curtain wanted was a
conscious, informed public capable of critical thinking. They
sought to keep people in a distracted, naive bubble. And they
did a damn good job of it. An arrangement between Canada, Mexico
and the United States was made. This arrangement, unannounced to
the public, unregulated by Congress, merged the United States,
Mexico and Canada into one entity, erasing all borders. It was
called the North American Union. This wasn't some trade
agreement. It was a total removal of sovereignty from those
countries which results in a completely new currency called the
Amero. Because of this agreement, the American Constitution
eventually became obsolete by default.
The people behind the movement were the same people behind the
mainstream media and people were not told what they were not
supposed to know. The North American Union was the same concept
as the European Union, the African Union and the Asian Union.
The same people were behind all of them. When the time was right
the North American, the European Union the African Union and the
Asian Union merged together forming the final stages of the plan
– A One World Government.
In the end everyone was locked into a monetary control grip
where every single action they performed was documented. If
someone got out of line, their chip could just be turned off,
for at that point in, time every single aspect of society
revolved around interactions with the chips. A centralized one
world economy where everyone's moves and everyone's transactions
are tracked and monitored, all rights removed. The most
incredible aspect of all: these totalitarian elements were not
be forced upon the people, the people demanded them. The social
manipulation of society through the generations of fear and
division had completely detached humans from their sense of
power and reality. The process, which had been going on for
centuries, if not millennia, (religion, patriotism, race,
wealth, class and every other form of arbitrary separatist
identification thus conceived) had served to create a controlled
population utterly malleable in the hands of the few. Divide and
conquer was the motto, and as long as people continued to see
themselves as separate from everything else they lent themselves
to being completely enslaved.
The Last Great war was an illusion created by the Union. The
purpose of this illusion was to act as a smoke screen to what
was really happening. As a magician distracts his audience with
smoke and mirrors, the unions distracted their people with war.
Bills and Acts were secretly signed while the populace fixated
on the war. The forming of the One World Government was the
greatest sleight of hand trick ever conceived.
The One World Government was controlled eventually by the
wealthiest company of the time. The Union Aerospace Corporation.
This corporation was the entity responsible for terra forming
Mars and other off world projects. It was also ironically the
company responsible for the design and manufacture of the "ID
Chip" which everyone was implanted with at birth. Union
Aerospace Corporation manufactured everything, from food, to
medicines, to genetically engineered animal hybrid "pets" to
artificial labor and service machines.
PRESENT 50 years in the future.
Union Aerospace Corporation IS the One World Government. It is
the banks, it is the corporation, it is the army, it is the law.
The entire balance of power rests solely in their hands. The
world is in a state of perpetual war. Everyday the media streams
that are broadcast talk of terrorist attacks. Everyday pictures
of public enemies are flashed across the video screens to remind
people that their sacrificed liberties are not in vain.
What really is happening in the places beyond the control of UAC
is unknown. Some skeptics said that the war was a pure
invention. These skeptics of course have their chips cut off.
With no money, these people are forced into the streets. Many
make their way to "free towns", where it is still possible to
live with out the "ID Chip".
Free towns had little to no strategic worth to the UAC: They
lacked the resource or ability to manufacture or export any
products that the UAC found useful. These cities were abandoned
eventually, the citizens that remained there became second class
citizens of the One World Government. As a result, many a
criminal or outcast would try to make their way to these
freetowns to escape the all seeing eye of the UAC: Freetowns
have become a byword for corruption, filth, squalor and chaos.
In the vacuum that is created by the absence of government,
independent players can quickly rise to the top if they have the
means to keep the town functioning. As any other, a freetown
such as Midian City has many needs.
Public utilities, policing, transportation infrastructures,
communication networks, supply shipments, healthcare. All of
these needs require providers and a means to pay them. Quickly
independent companies saw their chances to grab a piece of
control in the freetowns, and so names such as Globosec, Oceanic
Imports, Ashagi Labs, Metrokab and Trans Global rose to the top.
To keep their level of influence, all of the above companies act
highly competitive and some such as Oceanic Imports even went to
extremes as forming their own private army "Blackstar" to keep
their monopoly on the freetown import and export. Having ensured
to control what enters and leaves a city, Oceanic Imports is a
fast rising contractor and it's army "Blackstar" is often
available for private hire. Another notch in Oceanic Imports
belt.
As many citizens living in freetowns are cut off from the world
banking system, an independent currency came into existence:
this currency is made and supplied by the UAC and tradable for
world banking equivalent at a greatly reduced exchange rate.
This currency is known as "Freetown Union Credits" often
referred to a "free money, unicreds, creds, fucs, or cashy
money". The creation and distribution of these credits is the
only service the UAC provides to freetowns, but supply of these
credits is closely monitored. Though citizens of the lawless
freetowns soon found there are other things tradable for world
banking credits - human body parts, slaves, gold, drugs, sex.
To keep the service providers satisfied, a freetown's mayor
balances the ways to ensure their payment: Rentals, tax, selling
off parts of the city to wealthy mainland investors are amongst
the most common. So this is what also happened in Midian City,
when the park was purchased by mainland investors and literally
become an independent state within the Freetown. It is worth
reporting that over the last few years a large number of
freetowns were reported to have sold their greenspaces to
wealthy masked figures who insisted in paying in gold...
With the criminals being usually the highest tax payers the
mayors of freetowns are reluctant to punish them too much, so
policing providers such as Globosec ((MPD)) generally only exist
to reduce chances of property damage, mass looting and rioting.
Crimes against individuals are seldom punished, but on the flip
side to ensure that the "good, clean, living folk" pay their
taxes, a token effort at crime prevention and punishment is
made. Though both the mayor and the private security force
realize that if all crime in freetowns ended, their economy
would suffer greatly. And if that happens, they would be unable
to pay the providers for it's services - and more chaos was
predictable.
Midian City and its old part, by most citizens known as
Apocalypse, are typical examples of freetowns - a complete
contrast to Leviathan, which is a typical example of the
totalitarian UAC controlled mainland.
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