After years of existing in relative stability, the United Future Coalition fell apart. A myriad of governmental abuses divided not only the people, but the very foundations of the Coalition, The church maintained a protected status and arguably heavily influenced the state, the combined Military/police enforcement often created the concern of military rule, the Caesar abused his lifelong position and wealth to become effectively immortal with the use of cybernetics and genetic modification. The difficulty of creating new parties increased radically as time went on and old money dictated the state.

Civil war engulfed the country, and after several decades of infighting the nation’s resources depleted to the point of a tentative peace. The Free Cities of Alterius stood in the UFC’s place.

Alterius exists, for the most part, as a anarchic set of city-states. While they organize warfare and logistics together through a federal council in times of war, almost every other aspect is handled independently. While they typically portray this as a peaceful separation, the truth is that power-struggles and small skirmishes are not uncommon, especially between the ideologically extreme cities. The only upside of those frequent conflicts is that the difficulty of managing several different militaries is counterbalanced by the fact that all employed doctrines, equipments, and recruits are all battle-tested to the extreme.

In truth, the federal government has no power to enforce their will, there is no national politics, they are not right or left, or libertarian or authoritarian, they simply do not have the ability to enforce a standard. For every political ideology, however, there is a city for you, for better or worse.