Power does not fall. It settles.

The world of Terra: Evolved is post-democratic — not by revolution, but by institutional drift. Democratic systems did not collapse. They became procedurally irrelevant as corporate structures absorbed their functions, one competency at a time.

Technology is present everywhere and questioned nowhere. Neural augmentation, private military contracting, underground parallel economies — none of it is remarkable. It is infrastructure. The people living inside it do not think of themselves as living in a broken world. They think of themselves as practical.

That is the condition the series examines: what human nature does when the systems around it have optimized for everything except it.