Jack of Harts

The vast majority of people in the Socialist Republic of Juneau never achieved Zero Balance on their Life Debt, but that does not mean they had horrible lives. Those with the highest Life Debts often did perform the worst of the jobs, and could only spend their ration cards in the lowest of the markets. But the lower your Life Debt was, the better the places that you could go to were. Fresh fruit or bread was not an uncommon sight in the higher class markets, and day-old bread sent down from the Zero Balance markets was always available for those who worked well and had high social awareness. They could even choose their service to Juneau from the available openings, and few who gained that amount of comfort and control over their own lives would do anything to risk it. They were the stable middle class of Juneau, and the public face they broadcast to the world of the standard of living their better and more caring society could build for everyone.