Li John's sudden rise had left the Federation's high-level officials deeply dissatisfied! The Federation had become what it was today precisely because its high-level officials had deliberately made it so! Don't be fooled by the various warlords within the Federation, fighting each other today and tomorrow.
Yet there had always been a group of people controlling everything in the Federation.
They used proxies, bought shares, and employed all sorts of methods.
As for the wars between those warlords, they were merely tools these people used to eliminate dissidents!
Class stratification in the Federation was bloodier than in the other two nations.
Any newly rising force in the Federation would be steadily wiped out through repeated conflicts!
The Alliance maintained class stratification through financial and political means!
The Empire maintained class stratification through its nobles' monopoly over resources! Comparatively speaking, the methods used by those two nations were gentler, and many people at the bottom could not feel just how dangerous they were.
For instance, if someone in the Alliance developed some new technology, those major corporations and great families would use every possible means to buy stakes in it, steadily diluting your shares. Meanwhile, you would have to keep developing new technology, or else you would be saddled with enormous debts!
They would use financial means to force you to keep generating greater profits for them! The powerful figures in the Empire, meanwhile, monopolized resources and existing technologies. Yet they would not provide you with any resources to support your technology. If you wanted to monetize that technology, you had to join those nobles and become their slave.
Compared with the Alliance, the Empire's methods were somewhat crude.
But in the Federation, if someone mastered a new technology, they would directly deploy armed forces to rob and kidnap them, turning