Communist

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The world's economic system is communist in nature. All goods and all production are under the control of the state, and private trade tends to be minimal where it is not outright forbidden. On planets with very small populations, this communism tends to be of a crude variety expressed through familial obligations and a sense of shared labor for communities small enough to police their own members. Unlike ancient Terra, however, most worlds now lack the hyperintelligent AIs and precognitive economistpsychics that once made command economies practical on a planetary scale. As a consequence, most surviving large-scale communist worlds are gray places of calcified bureaucracy, populist rancor, or fresh-faced enthusiasm yet untempered by experience.

Leaders:
^{Who might be encountered while conducting business}

• Eager bureaucrat with a poor grasp on private property
• Cynical apparatchik who just wants his share
• Local factory manager desperate to make quota
• "Fixer" for the regime looking for vital spare parts

Enemies:
^{Who might be encountered who opposes the group}

Vengeful survivor of the former propertied class

"Enemy of the people" out to overthrow the government

Far trader with moral objections to dealing with communists

Aspiring tyrant seeking to seize control of the world

Complications:
^{How might the situation on the world be more complicated}

Stock of overproduced goods

Crude but tough equipment

Last cache of some underproduced product on the planet

Goods seized from capitalist roaders and wreckers

Things:
^{What items might be found on the world}

Stock of overproduced goods

Crude but tough equipment

Last cache of some underproduced product on the planet

Goods seized from capitalist roaders and wreckers

Things:
^{What regulations might complicate things}

Only state traders are allowed to buy and sell to offworlders

Offworlders must bring specific state-mandated goods to be allowed any trade

Only far traders with "good politics" are allowed to trade

Far traders must demonstrate their commitment to the revolution to be allowed to trade

Tags: Politics, Trade