Chapter 4 (Cont.)
On the other hand, any information, even the scantest, most fragile deduction on the fate of Middle America remains entirely inscrutable. I know that the situation will continue to remain so. I am a daughter of Neuronusk after all. I was born there in the year zero of nuclear apocalypse, five months after the ultimate climax of the third great war. Decades before that cursed event, after the civil-war and subsequent dissolution of United States of America, Middle America, my home, was striving towards something radically different from its neighbours. Unlike the hegemonic drives of Eastern America and the conservative isolationism of Southern America, Middle America was orchestrating a divergent form of utopia, unlike anything else in the history of the old world. My father, Matthew Granger, was one of the prime idealists behind its realisation. Middle America was not just chasing isolation, it was attempting knowledge for knowledge's sake. The idealists of Middle America had formulated a governance system based around intellectual merit and emotional depth. According to them, historical reading of mankind suggested that the major culprit behind human clashes were not the need to dominate others, not to exert chauvinistic claims of rights, not to gain strategic advantage, not to secure natural resources; according to them, it was primarily the failure to reconcile. Middle America's constitution had atheistic tendencies, even though it was completely tolerant of practising people. And even at its most secular, the national consciousness had drawn from the teachings of Abarhamic lineage: it was taught in schools— pride and envy are the bane of humanity. The idealists of Middle America also had realised that it is out of the bounds of feasibility that the humane reconciliation could be made to be the weapon instead of projectiles, in times of clashes. Their solution was to completely dissociate from the world they had perceived as morally inferior and opportunistic. Southern America too had such arrogant sense of moral superiority albeit it had manifested in total opposites: Middle America, particularly the capital Neuronusk, was fiercely dedicated to progress through ambition, peace through control. Another crucial aspect about their political and scientific approach was valuing sciences and arts as the vessel to traverse the ocean of curiosity with; even though Middle America had rapidly developed destructive weapons and other defensive and offensive technologies, they actively had discouraged its boarders from strapping the vessel with weaponry. Their approach was to keep its weapons hidden in the cabins, enclosed in a way that one could not reach them without the time of critical emergency. The vessel operated by the authority of Neuronusk, upon identifying threats and alliances alike on its radar would do everything in its power to avoid coming in contact with them. They sought total sovereignty and self-containment for according to them, the rest of the vessels and fleets on the ocean could neither sail on it like them, nor want to head in the similar direction. They said the ocean was vast enough to avoid coming in contact with or needing the association/warfare with other vessels.
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Nulls IV / System's Sun: Gleediot, Blatant; Summoned Orb: Expensive, Sleep-safe