 How has planetary leadership evolved since the 20th century?
A launching catapult for the last space ships built by the gods in exodus, perhaps it was—half a million years ago. Glacial ages, war, decadence, disease, and a final scattering of those ultimate superhumans to newer worlds in other solar systems, had done that. Man, it seemed, had a successor, as ruler of the Earth. Loy Chuk had flown his geological expedition out from the far lowlands to the east, out from the city of Kar-Rah. Not the star-conquering demi-gods, but the ancestral stock that had built the first machines on Earth, and in the early Twenty-first Century, the first interplanetary rockets. A strange accident, happening in a legendary antiquity, had aided them in their quest for knowledge.
 Authority is more vested in the knowledge and expertise of technologists and researchers
 Authority is more vested in the knowledge and expertise of technologists and researchers  The entire planet has adopted democracy as a means for ensuring liberty to all species  The Kar-Rah have combined the most humane principles from authoritarian regimes and constitutional democracies  Earth has eliminated all government in the name of autonomy and free will