The game explores the impact of technological changes, addressing genetic modification of humans, artificial intelligence, and non-hierarchical political models (i.e., anarchism). “These sort of decentralized, self-empowered social models are going to be crucial for our species going forward, unless we want to suffer under the induced-scarcity yoke of life-extended capitalists or techno-fascists and their killer robots and eventually destroy ourselves,” said Boyle. “I mean, we have functional real-life anarchist structures right now, such as the autonomous region of Rojava in what used to be Syria, proving that these alternatives work, so let’s figure out how to extend that potential.”