Libra story
In the year 2003, a libertarian space colony develops a game changing form of solar power that could solve Earth's energy crisis, but will the world government get in the way of its deployment?
18 total · 4 choice · 7 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| free market utopia | choice | Libra was a free market utopia in space. |
| free market vs. regulated market | choice | A utopian space colony unfettered by government regulation was contraposed with a world that was stagnating under the inept control of an international planning commission. |
| government regulation in society | choice | The Libra colonists were discouraged over how the Earth government was stifling new development with all their centralized policies, tariffs, taxes, over-regulation, and nationalization. |
| overregulated dystopia | choice | The Earth government was not totalitarian and probably not even autocratic, yet somehow there was a perpetual "international planning commission" that could impose onerous, self-serving, and corrupt regulations on the rest of society to such an extent that people had to live with rolling blackouts. |
| capitalism | major | The Libra space colony was a celebration of capitalism. |
| energy crisis in society | major | The Earth government had an "international planning commission" that could impose onerous, self-serving, and corrupt regulations on the rest of society to such an extent that people had to live with rolling blackouts. |
| order vs. freedom | major | The people on Libra advocated individual freedom whereas the international planners on Earth invoked the need for order to justify the imposition of their onerous regulations. |
| rotating space habitat | major | The Libra colonists lived on the inside of what was most likely an O'Neill cylinder in space. |
| space colonization | major | Libra was a solar powered O'Neill cylinder colony. |
| space-based solar power | major | The Libra colonists developed a game changing form of space-based solar power that could solve a global energy crisis on Earth, if only the world government would not get in the way with its pesky regulations. |