Change my mind
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There is literally a character named The Senate.
also the story literally is modeled after multiple governments including the Roman Republic and Nazi Germany
One might note that they had a slave race of robots, FTL, and apparently limitless energy for 25k years and yet there's still rampant poverty.
Something seems wrong with an economic system that would create those circumstances and enable the corruption of the political leadership despite literal divine guidance from a galactic gestalt consciousness, I wonder what?
Artificial scarcity is a hell of a drug.