Jack of Harts

The New England Federation is a secure and safe place to live. Orderly. Calm. Clean. The best medical care on Earth had eliminated most health problems long before the Peloran made Contact. While true immortality was a thing of science fiction, many Federation citizens who saw Contact had also lived through the Second Great Depression and the long War on Terror that preceded it. Most citizens who remained on Earth wished a calm and secure place to live, and the Federation provided that. Those who wanted excitement were encouraged to find it on other worlds. Some returned to Earth with a greater respect and wish for the security of life here, though most remained in the stars. This has kept the Terrestrial population a healthy size while also providing a steady stream of colonists for offworld holdings in need of more… interesting people.

The New England Federation rose out of an era of great strife. This was the plan. Decades of deficit spending on the part of the Federal government had pushed inflation to stress lower class economics. Increasingly stringent lockdowns during the string of Chinese pandemics destroyed small businesses throughout America. Fortified elections protected the Federal government from the fickle whims of the lower classes. Social networks censored political disagreement and silenced those who spoke out. Lower class Americans were constantly stressed and threatened by every day life in America. But benevolent charities created by the Great Families were always ready to help those in need. This was the plan. A better society, led by those ready to meet the future we all faced. The fundamental transformation of America. The great reset. The New England Federation.

The Great Families who built the New England Federation were firm believers in pursuing social justice and righting the wrongs of the past. They wished the Federation to grow into the future without all of the social baggage of racism, genderism, or the other sins of the past that were still practiced outside their borders. They promised the most basic of human rights, a restitution of everything stolen from the people of all classes and backgrounds. They even went into the major population centers that had been devastated by the social unrest of the Second Great Depression, including Chicago and Detroit, and rebuilt them into the major City-States they are now. As always, it was security and prosperity that they offered, and they delivered it everywhere that accepted their vision of the future. To Make America Better.