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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The Jovian Republic is commonly given this treatment. Tyrannical assholes who [[Putting on the Reich|Put On The Reich]] to keep their people down and kill anyone who doesn't agree to their creed, or the defenders of humanity and the only voice of reason in a world of nanotechnology and genetic engineering gone mad?
* [[Author Tract]]: The authors really seem to dislike organized religion. The last surviving diocese of the Catholic Church is a willing part of the ruling oligarchy that forms the totalitarian, backward, and racist and everything-else-ist Jovian 'Republic'. The only mention of Judaism is as one surviving reclusive space colony (and falls into the trap of assuming all Jews are ultra-orthodox Hassidic besides). ''Any'' mention of religion elsewhere is in the context of 'idolated Jonestown style cult colony of a handful of whackos on some isolated rock somewhere'. Further supplements revealed that the general [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]] of the Eclipse Phase future was because 'organized religions were too hidebound to organize themselves effectively after the Fall' -- and this in a setting where ubiquitous wireless data networking and social media technology are so advanced that the single largest investment bank in the solar system ''doesn't even have a physical headquarters'', because it functions entirely well as a crowdsourced group of salespeople (for the talking-to-clients side) and a purely virtual-reality central office staffed by telecommuters (for the administration side).
** For bonus Did Not Do The Research points, the highest surviving Catholic official named is a Cardinal. Apparently the authors did not do so much as a five-minute Wikipedia search on the Catholic Church's organizational structure before deciding to write it into their setting.<ref>Because, of course, if that guy is the last surviving bishop of the Church after the Apocalypse, then he is now the new Pope -- and if he's not, then he and his fellow surviving bishops get to ''elect'' the new Pope.</ref>
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Lots of this.
* [[Game Breaker]]: Infolife hackers can be, in effect, up to nearly 200 Rez points ahead of their compatriots.
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