I made some progress on Chapter 17 of CeleKing1, but honestly, I spent more time on the peripheral materials outlining the details of citizenship and how it differs from the New Earth Empire proper. (Remember that the Hua Dynasty of Erdi springs from a line of pretenders and styles itself as the legitimate ruler of the Empire even though their domain doesn’t extend beyond a single planet.) While life isn’t easy for Infernals, it’s in some ways preferable to life in the Empire at large because the Celestials don’t have anywhere near as tight of control on the populace. For instance, as a Class 5 citizen, which most Infernals are, you aren’t officially recognized as having employment and have no property rights or enfranchisement, but the Celestials aren’t actually going to bother enforcing this and local officials tend to be either sympathetic to the average person or too powerless to enforce policy. Now, you might be asking what this has to do with the story itself and, honestly, the answer is not much. Just the sort of worldbuilding I do, even if you never see any of it in the stories themselves. Well, I think that’s it for now. More to come. Stay tuned.

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