The general idea of a global spanning network of intelligence and freedom of speech does not enquire within the world of the 19th century. Despite the numerous advancements in technology and long distance, wired or wireless, data transfer has greatly improved the likes of economy and national security, the use for such services is only limited to the aforementioned – only to the government. As for every governing body’s concern, the people cannot be given power such as freedom or knowledge. And as such, almost every country on the map does not allow their citizens to orchestrate treason in the form of spreading information; they blacklist, interrogate, and process them to be more “cooperative”.

Although much of the advanced technology is exclusive to the higher bodies, there are some exceptions. Almost every household has a computer which is connected to the local cloud. With cyber security as their utmost priority, national IT engineers and counterespionage agents make sure to protect the cloud of leakage. Not all the nations have such high-tech household, though, as for China, they have fully public digitalized libraries, all open to any ordinary pleb, but they do not authorize the use of personal computers in any capacity, nor they commend the news from outside country – every country has their own bubble, all apart from one another.

The new age ushered in the likes of many inventors. But the number of the ones who gained fame are far less than the people who had potential. With a tragedy or a plain bad luck, people who could be someone influential does not become the people they wanted or needed to be. Instead, they make do with what they had and compromise. But unpredictable variables are not the only thing that prevents them from becoming powerful. Like playing God, higher-ups of great nations limit the growth of their people. With only one system to measure prominence, society shun the ones who have less mana than the average.

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“Compensation is always given to those who are unfortunate”. In the likes of those who are unfortunate, the underground is the best plan of action. Along with being unnoticed, they get jobs tailored for their situation; whether it is manual labor, assembly worker or plain terrorism, people at least get to get revenge on those who ridiculed them one form or another. With hefty limitations on their survivability, those without mana have more than rational compensation for their inability to make anything possible. The harsh environment they grew made them develop tactics and mind to aid their livelihood, in a sense, they are foxes hunting among wolves.

As the governments across the world do not like the weak, which makes the country look weak, they hunt, detain, and even exterminate the manaless lineages. As mana capacity correlates to one’s heritage and experience, the people who have less, or no mana at all, face their end as well as their bloodline’s. And in almost every part of the world there is this kind of racism, the people different cannot flee anywhere except the underground.

Although, The Human Right’s existence prohibits unnecessary extermination, or extermination, the great powers does not abide by it. “The right and the wrong is decided by the victorious”, is the only rule every single entity follow. The only thing keeping the powers from going total war is the caution of their defeat – in war, numeral advantage is the salvation. As of the last global scale war, the 7 Years’ War, human rights are ignored with no regards to civilian casualty and damage, the invading power does not have any restrictions. But, as almost every government demand partisan force training, most enemy advances are halted by them, rendering invasion obsolete.