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* TotalitarianUtilitarian: UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}} is ruled by the terrifying Sergei Zarubayev, who uses a vaguely plausible but very totalitarian philosophy to justify the creation of a surveillance state in which the secret police use advanced technology to play with the minds and perceptions of anyone they choose.
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** UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}} is ruled by the terrifying Sergei Zarubayev, who uses a vaguely plausible but very totalitarian philosophy to justify the creation of a surveillance state in which the secret police use advanced technology to play with the minds and perceptions of anyone theychoose.choose.
** Fountain-1 adheres to the philosophy of Posthuman Fitness, where all residents are assigned to tasks fitting their mental capabilities, and given psychosurgical and memetic treatments to adjust them to their roles. [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul All of their people are happy with their jobs]], and they claim that they treat bioroids the same as the rest of their citizens...[[FalseReassurance which is completely true]]. They also advertise rehabilitation for other colonies' violent criminals, [[PenalColony who are their main source of immigrants]]. Unsurprisingly, they are an ally of Kazakstan, since Zarubayev wants their slave technology.
** UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}} is ruled by the terrifying Sergei Zarubayev, who uses a vaguely plausible but very totalitarian philosophy to justify the creation of a surveillance state in which the secret police use advanced technology to play with the minds and perceptions of anyone they
** Fountain-1 adheres to the philosophy of Posthuman Fitness, where all residents are assigned to tasks fitting their mental capabilities, and given psychosurgical and memetic treatments to adjust them to their roles. [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul All of their people are happy with their jobs]], and they claim that they treat bioroids the same as the rest of their citizens...[[FalseReassurance which is completely true]]. They also advertise rehabilitation for other colonies' violent criminals, [[PenalColony who are their main source of immigrants]]. Unsurprisingly, they are an ally of Kazakstan, since Zarubayev wants their slave technology.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: On Luna, there's two separate movements for a Lunar nation. The Lunar Democratic Congress are the ordinary "let's set up our own democracy" activists, while the Lunar Preservationist Party ("Red Rabbits") want to nationalize all Lunar resources for the future of the Moon. The Red Rabbits have spawned the Regulators, a RadicalSplinterFaction who spend an inordinate amount of effort roughing up LDC activists.
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* LifeInZeroG: The Tennin parahuman was designed by the Duncanites after they got kicked off Mars and fled to the Belt, with many advantages designed to make life easier in microgravity. There's also a variant used by the Wimmin's Pantropic Collective of Margaret Station at L5 that can reproduce by parthenogenesis.
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* BrainUploading: Two kinds; ''"Ghosts"'' where the brain is destroyed in the process, and ''"Shadows"'', where the brain survives but the AI simulation is an unreliable model at best.
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* BrainUploading: Two kinds; ''"Ghosts"'' where the "Ghosts" are personality uploads produced by disassembling and scanning a human brain is destroyed in at the process, molecular level. They contrast with "shadows," which are non-destructively uploaded (or are the products of partially failed destructive upload attempts) but which are imperfect simulations, and ''"Shadows"'', where the "eidolons," which aren't even made with a brain survives but the AI simulation is an unreliable model at best.scan -- they are just fakes made from stock footage and biographical databases.
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* ChummyCommies: The infosocialist opposition in Europe and India are mostly firmly democratic socialist in orientation, seeing freedom of information as a path to greater human prosperity. In Europe, they tend to be mostly disaffected college students, but India has a serious infosocialist party who have a shot at winning an election and shaking the world order.
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* ChummyCommies: The infosocialist opposition in Europe and India are mostly firmly democratic socialist in orientation, seeing freedom of information as a path to greater human prosperity. In Europe, they tend to be mostly disaffected college students, but India has a serious infosocialist party who have a shot at winning an election and shaking the world order. Meanwhile, countries like Bangladesh and El Salvador maintain democratic nanosocialist governments committed to lifting their people out of poverty.
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* CureYourGays: While sexual orientation in adults can't be altered by current memetic engineering, it can be largely controlled through genetic engineering of embryos, and China's Yousheng parahumans were genetically engineered for heterosexuality. Meanwhile, [[InvertedTrope the Wimmin's Pantropic Collective on Margaret Station and other Ariadne communities try to engineer their transhuman daughters for lesbianism]]. It isn't universally successful, but exclusively heterosexual Ariadnes are pretty rare.
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* SillyReasonForWar: The dispute between the two Sons and Daughters of the King churches (which worship Elvis Presley) started when the then-leader of the Church decreed that only the pictures of the King from his early years should be used, while a splinter faction argued that the Elder Elvis showed the sins and suffering of the world. Soon the leader who'd issued the first decree was shot, churches were bombed and the SDK split into the SDK (Younger) and SDK (Elder).
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* HostileTerraforming: The reason why environmentalists are blocking the Green Duncanites' efforts to terraform Europa is because it would threaten the moon's indigenous microbes.
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** Antoine Cohen's press team can be seen as a cross-gender BeautyBrainsAndBrawn, with Antoine (TheChick can be male and smart in this setting), Ludwig Braun (TheBigGuy), and Tamara Chuikova (TheSmartGal).
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** Antoine Cohen's press team can be seen as a cross-gender BeautyBrainsAndBrawn, with Antoine (TheChick (the Beauty can be male and smart in this setting), Ludwig Braun (TheBigGuy), and Tamara Chuikova (TheSmartGal).
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* AIIsACrapshoot: ''Transhuman Space'' mostly averts the trope in that A.I.s are carefully programmed to be law-abiding, and the programming works. However, there are a few uncontrolled rogues, and a very few deadly problem cases -- though those mostly seem to be old military systems that were designed for lethality and self-preservation, and preserve those tendencies while running out of control.
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* JobStealingRobot: Automation has eliminated most unskilled jobs, putting anyone without a university degree (or a creative job and an audience) out of work. In the developed world, governments compensate for this with a welfare system that makes work a choice rather than a necessity, and only about 30% of the population actually work full-time. Poorer countries can't support this kind of social security; many try to make up for it by mandating that factories employ a certain number of people in makework jobs.
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* JobStealingRobot: Automation has eliminated most unskilled jobs, putting anyone without a university degree (or a creative job and an audience) out of work. In the developed world, governments compensate for this with a welfare system that makes work a choice rather than a necessity, and only about 30% of the population actually work full-time. Poorer countries can't support this kind of social security; many try to make up for it by mandating that factories employ a certain number of people in makework jobs. Others simply tax automated factories to pay for welfare programs; this is called the "Libyan Tax" after Libya, who were the country to introduce the idea.
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* FreeLoveFuture: In Fifth Wave nations, with access to easy, reliable contraception and STDImmunity and with DesignerBabies being the normal way to make children, sex has become a purely recreational activity and "till death do us part" marriages are seen as kinda weird. Some people marry for fixed-duration contracts, others don't even bother with that kind of formality, same-sex marriage is entirely unremarkable, and various forms of group and interspecies marriage are available. Some places try to throttle this back; the US and Latin America have more conservative marital jurisprudence, Italy used to have strict laws against reproductive technology until the rift between their government and the Catholic Church, and the Islamic Caliphate obviously insists on traditional marriage (just ''how'' traditional varies by country).
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* FreeLoveFuture: In Fifth Wave nations, with access to easy, reliable contraception and STDImmunity and with DesignerBabies being the normal way to make children, sex has become a purely recreational activity and "till death do us part" marriages are seen as kinda weird. Some people marry for fixed-duration contracts, others don't even bother with that kind of formality, same-sex marriage is entirely unremarkable, and various forms of group and interspecies marriage are available. Some places try to throttle this back; the US and Latin America have more conservative marital jurisprudence, Italy used to have strict laws against reproductive technology until the rift between their government and the Catholic Church, and the Islamic Caliphate obviously insists on traditional marriage (just ''how'' traditional varies by country).country, and the Caliph also approved technology that would reduce but not eliminate the possibility of pregnancy).
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At least, "good" according to the government. Criminals can receive psychiatric therapy to help them get over their criminal tendencies and become productive citizens of society. This is particularly common practice with [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil copyright violators]], because the WTO is well aware that a lot of people believe that DigitalPiracyIsOkay (particularly in the developing world), so they encourage governments to ''make'' violators change their minds.
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* JobStealingRobot: Automation has eliminated most unskilled jobs, putting anyone without a university degree (or a creative job and an audience) out of work. In the developed world, governments compensate for this with a welfare system that makes work a choice rather than a necessity, and only about 30% of the population actually work full-time. Poorer countries can't support this kind of social security; many try to make up for it by mandating that factories employ a certain number of people in makework jobs.
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* FreeLoveFuture: In Fifth Wave nations, with access to easy, reliable contraception and STDImmunity and with DesignerBabies being the normal way to make children, sex has become a purely recreational activity and "till death do us part" marriages are seen as kinda weird. Some people marry for fixed-duration contracts, others don't even bother with that kind of formality, same-sex marriage is entirely unremarkable, and various forms of group and interspecies marriage are available. Some places try to throttle this back; the US and Latin America have more conservative marital jurisprudence, Italy used to have strict laws against reproductive technology until the rift between their government and the Catholic Church, and the Islamic Caliphate obviously insists on traditional marriage (just ''how'' traditional varies by country).
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: One micro-vignette in ''Fifth Wave'' explains the issues of sorting out the inheritance of a wealthy man with three registered domestic partners, two children (one an OppositeSexClone), the household AI and the family cat all claiming shares of his estate. Sorting out affairs like that can be complicated in a world where the twentieth-century nuclear family isn't the standard anymore.
