'Really Existing Magocracy' in the Sorcerers Axis by CastleGreifenghast, literature
Literature
'Really Existing Magocracy' in the Sorcerers Axis
The economics of the Sorcerous Axis exists in two mutually contradictory states. Firstly, there is the economy as it ideologically and legally exists in state regulations. Secondly, there is the economy as it actually exists and functions. According to state propaganda, the Sorcerers’ Axis is a utopian world of plenty that has abolished scarcity and greed alike through the universalisation of magic. Suspicious-minded observers would note that this propaganda very closely corresponds to the Prophecy that led to the creation of the Axis in the first place, while bearing almost no reality to how the Sorcerous state actually works. A problem faced after the Magical Revolution was that the Prophecy didn’t actually provide terribly much in the way of concrete details as to how a fully magical economy was meant to work; the Prophecy ‘proved’ that it would work, but the revolutionaries didn’t know how it would exactly work. The vision was essentially a cornucopia endlessly giving forth plenty;