Do you know the word 'Dystopia'?

Recently, the self-styled Reformist Faction criticized the unchanging nobility system, asserting the highest priority of a strong nation was to replace that system with an equal society with the Imperial family at the top. They say this is the utopia that the empire and all Imperial citizens should strive for.

The opposing Noble Faction tends to place importance on respecting traditions, which is difficult to call a logical argument, causing them to lose ground to the Reformist Faction. This author doesn't totally support the system of nobility, but after seeing the situation of politics these last few years, I can't help but agree with the nobles.

Typical of this are the words and policies of Chancellor Giliath Osborne, representative of the Imperial government. Of common birth, he is known as the leader of the Reformist Faction. Though he received a title when taking the office of chancellor, he spoke out against the discriminatory class system and worked hard against it. This obviously triggered conflict with noble powers but wasn't the core of the problem.

He's stressed countless times in his speeches that these are 'turbulent times.' Indeed, the Orbal Revolution sped up many things, and fighting not only over territory, but now in the economic field has exploded inside and outside the empire. His urgings seem to be on the mark. Looking closely at the situation, however, should clue one in to the fact that many of these confrontations and upheavals come from the Imperial government's strong and adroit interventions and the result of the work of the Intelligence Division that the chancellor himself built.

The annexation of the city-state of Jurai six years ago. The Four Great Houses' increasing hostility to explicit tax reform. The citizens that were victims of the expansion of the railway system. All of this fanned the flames that threaten to swallow us, even adding the fuel of hatred to grow those flames even larger. This is the scene painted by these events.

If so, then what waits on the other side is not a utopia, but a time of tumult--a dystopia where offerings are made to monsters. A world where morals have fallen away, ruled by war. If a wildfire like that swallowed the empire, or the entire continent...

I don't mind if you laugh this off as an absurd delusion or if this is considered slanderous. I decided to put my career as a philosopher and statesman on the line by writing this piece. I pray that these words reach at least one person.

July 7th, 5.1202. Imperial Academy Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy

- Michael Gideon