Egap ended up divided, of course, between the three empires. The Rotanios took the lion’s share, the Bamos took the northwest, and the old empire of the Ikamon took the southeast. After the Big War, the Ikamon Empire ended up destroyed and vanished. The Rotanios and the Bamos weakened each other, while the Amians emerged and Egaps claimed their independence. Three Egap nations emerged in the north, the middle, and the south. Knowing they had everything in common, they created the League of the Three Nations. After that, and within the same generation, they decided to merge and unite their nations to become one as they shared the same language and traditions. Even if the old empires tried desperately to divide them, the bonds and the uniqueness of the tribes were too strong and too obvious to deny. They kept the name of “The League” to remember how divided and weak they used to be.
The population was still 85-percent women; that didn't change much. Later, some theories appeared that gave only a few explanations, as the whole subject is still a mystery. The big “why nature favors women” on that continent was still a subject of debate, but scientists agreed that the main triggers could be a combination of the special weather with the very unique flora. As Konu said ironically, “Just like the old charlatans said.”
He did mention this book on our trip to The League. He told me, “Dismar, a curious man like you will have to wait centuries, perhaps eternities, to see any scientist nowadays willing to venture into The League’s wildness again, like the old masters did centuries ago. They could use our new technology to live there, study the species properly, and explain to the world the real reasons for the unnatural balance. From there, maybe everything would connect. Maybe through understanding The League’s nature, everything would click to produce a “big theory of life.” The theory that will enlighten us and make us understand ourselves and how to live happily, content, and in equilibrium, like the gods, where life will finally cease to be only suffering. But no, this will never happen in this world, as the scientists close themselves in small dark rooms, watching their AI on small screens 18 hours a day. They dream about codes that can create consciousness to replace us, or let’s say to retire us. So, we could close ourselves in miserable dark rooms just like them, watching TV and playing games while eating a free sandwich.”
He continued his diatribe about the league, and I was forced to listen. He said that in the book, some hidden facts hadn’t been discovered by the author, who was a simple historian trying to assemble all the parts from only academic sources.
Konu was on a very strong THC dose that he was buying from a special AI alchemist’s start-up, arguing that it doesn’t work for him, but he could talk for hours under the drops’ effects. The final masterpiece of the AI, in my opinion, is that it gives you a mix of the perfect delusion that makes you think that you are not part of it.
“Oh, before I forget, write or record your memoirs in case we will not make it out alive this time. But also as a therapy for your mind, since when you project your thoughts on a physical medium, it does filter the extra stress, suffering, and sometimes madness, that are wrapped around the beautiful ideas. Those wraps are only the result of the mind and do not exist in the real world. Therefore, you will not find them in the medium.
“That’s an order.” …of course.
He kept talking about The League, as he explained to me that The League’s political and economic systems were unique. Each district votes on a representative. The elected person, instead of governing its own district, (he or she, but mainly a she, of course), governs another district on a rotating basis. By doing that, the population of the first district, in a way, can say that we gave you the best of us. And by that unusual system also, regionalism and nationalism are almost non-existent. The League’s governance system is a marvel. There are 11 districts supervised by 11 representatives. Their high dedication and sincerity in serving have never been seen in any other nation before.
A very open economy has helped that too. The League’s currency is one of the freest currencies in the world, a must for the main service The League was offering to the rest of the world – genome modification. When the whole world was focusing on the AI, The League chose another direction as unfortunately, they could never attract the best scientists in the AI field. This was not because of the lack of trying or the political will, but sadly, the top scientists and engineers decided to emigrate, work, and research at the Amian confederation.
The Amian society is built with emigrants, unlike The League which is a closed nation with a very different and unique language and way of life. The cultural gap is too big for any top talent to feel comfortable living in The League. In other words, even if the Amian society looks chaotic, it did succeed in attracting the top talent in every field, mainly because the image it projected to the rest if the world, an image of integration, and shared responsibilities, as the civility at the Amians can be acquired.
That part was never intended to be sold freely by The League. The population’s pride and shared past with a strong tradition, were without a doubt the main obstacles. But I have to give them credit in a way. Even if their society is not amazingly advanced, it is close to utopian, a kind of slowdown mixed with a sense of security
