Interdimensional Society#
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Article contains spoilers: Bk7
Governments#
There are many challenges that come with running a reality-spanning empire. Different races have different moral values, different worlds have different environments. It’s a complicated affair, which sees a few archetypal forms of government emerge as the most successful.
Proxy Governments#
Proxy governments are the most common type found in interdimensional society, and usually in large-scale enclaves. Many other governmental systems have this in some form. These function by having multiple levels of government that get more specific in accordance to their scale. The top level will administer general rules and manage interactions with other groups, while a reality-sized level may have specific country-style laws in accordance to the needs of their population.
This system accommodates all species needs while still maintaining the society as a unified groups.
Asomatous Governments#
An asomatous government is based on another power structure but maintains little large-scale presence. They generally have large backers, such as an ancestral founder off gallivanting across the cosmos — but still conveniently able to bash some unworthy heads when needed.
This powerful backing entity replaces all but the menial tasks of the top level, representing the society in negotiations and showing up to reinforce the decision makers when needed. The amount of these backing entities increases according to the scale of the state.
Authoritarian Governments#
These governments rule with an iron fist. Absolute power over people however, still requires genuine absolute power. Most of these are small scale enclaves, as such power is hard to maintain when you’re stretched too thin. Large scale autocracies are always backed by some higher power, whether a Great Immortal, a legendary group of extremely powerful people, or even the Narrator.
Hive Governments#
In societies spanning millions of realities, it’s incredibly difficult to make sure every voice is heard. Some (very few) societies have attempted to make this possible using massive councils and hive mind technology. This has worked on the smaller end of the interdimensional society spectrum, and is a slowly emerging phenomenon in higher circles.
Interdimensional Law#
Organizing laws between reality spanning organizations is predictably tricky. There are very few actual, written laws that concern all groups, and most simply follow the lead of the Amirlithic Union in civilized voidspace. The Great Immortals can also somewhat be considered a governing authority, but mostly float in the background if there aren’t any massive issues. They concern themselves with performing regular revaluations and keeping the balance between physical and metaphysical. That said, there are some few formal pacts.
Void Wilds Pact#
The Void Wilds Pact states (in a highly paraphrased form) that realities previously unseasoned with other worlds must be left untampered until they bring themselves into the fold. No interdimensional group can maintain presence in wild voidspace that contains these unexposed realities.
Personal Power Dynamics#
Survival in the cosmos requires power, not just in your group but in yourself. Many interdimensional citizens possess power that can level what a baseline human sees as a city. There are many ways of obtaining this kind of power. The basic principle is using metaphysical energies to enhance your body beyond its physical baseline.
All worlds have native magic systems that allow their inhabitants to collect this energy naturally over time, ensuring a slow and steady progression to interdimensional power levels for those who are happy to work for it.
Few worlds lack such a system and all of these usually come with some sort of environmental twist – a potent natural resource, per example – that allows the ingenuity of technology to do the work instead.
Some beings, usually artificial, are born with such power levels, though this is quite rare due to the scruples of creating artificial life and the likelihood of them getting out of control.