Justicio School Textbook – 4th Grade Excerpt: “Why Do We Have Laws on Social Classes and Citizen Statuses?”

Social classes and citizen statuses were established to divide the remaining human population.

In the early phases of the Modern Era, this separation was limited to biological distinctions. Designed by Hades and his two associates, the primary goal was to differentiate Immortals and Androgynes from ordinary humans.

However, once the project became public and the circle of founders expanded to include investors, a new form of division emerged—this time among those with standard biology. The new system introduced divisions based on wealth, with a barely concealed intent: to take advantage of the world's transformation in order to solidify and secure the investors’ social standing.

The original thinkers allowed this development to continue—on the surface—to maintain good relations with the financial backers. But once those investors began to reach the natural limits of human aging, they were quietly pushed aside under the pretext of cognitive instability. Their successors quickly understood the veiled threat hidden beneath this supposed act of compassion. Choosing self-preservation, they accepted the privileges granted by the Immortals in exchange for silence, in hopes of long-term inclusion and security.

The Capitalist Incident served as a crucial turning point. It demonstrated that humans, left unchecked, inevitably produce dominant figures seeking to oppress others. In response, the true founders introduced the first version of the current system. It featured four distinct classes—Immortals, Androgynes, Military, and Freemen—intended to balance power and limit how much any one group could accumulate.

(See: Laws on Purchasing Power – Why? to learn more about the incident’s impact on modern trade.)

Over the course of the first millennium, a fifth class emerged: the Reduced. These were the descendants of criminals assigned to menial and degrading tasks. Many of them refused to conform to the official reproduction system and instead raised their offspring in secret. These children inherited their parents’ marginal status and, as a result, were rendered impossible to integrate into the established class structure.

Finally, the rare few who chose to flee the cities became known as the Others—the most recent and only class completely outside the System to this day.