Philip

Due to unusual tax shelters, Philip is port to a small population of highly wealthy individuals who are never there. Their estates are managed by intelligent, self-aware androids, known colloquially as “artificials”. In the early part of the century, they were brought in as indentured servants working to pay-off sometimes impossible debts for their eventual freedom. Although cultural awareness and moral rights have drastically improved the conditions under which artificials are educated and employed, a suppressed tension still remains in the undertones of social structure.

Coming out of The War, humans began importing and “rewarding” their artificials with Canned Dreams, programs that generated “pleasurable” dreams and made their servants docile. The trade of this product therefore continues to be a staple of economy on Philip, even though activists have tried many years to lobby for heavy restrictions against it.

History
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