This was a nation led by a great being, basking in the radiance of that great being!
It was a great nation with a clear class structure, yet sheltered by a great being and free from extreme oppression. Its resources were abundant, with no famine or deadly diseases, and all living things coexisted in harmony!
As long as you had legal Empire citizenship and didn't break the Empire's laws, you could live happily in the Empire. Even if you did nothing but loaf around, spending your days eating, sleeping, and playing games, you could laze about in the Empire until you died of old age.
Of course, that was assuming there was no war!
The humans produced by the Empire's standard human-production machines looked like mass-produced goods rolling off an assembly line, seemingly the kind of people who could be sacrificed like cannon fodder. But that was only how it looked.
Compared to the savages outside the city—the lowly savages born naturally—these machine-produced humans were incomparably more noble. From the moment they were born, they had legal Empire citizenship and received a standard Imperial education. They might look mass-produced, but they all had legitimate rights.
They weren't cannon fodder or clones. Each person had their own unique thoughts. These people were the Empire's core, the ones it truly valued and cherished.
"Then... do those... sa-savages outside still have a chance? Are they really going to live out in the wilderness for the rest of their lives?"
After hearing the escort robot's explanation of the Empire, Yui Ikari was astonished. She felt that producing a human in just twenty-four hours was a little too inhumane. It felt as if humans were being objectified and manufactured like ordinary goods, as though a human being were nothing more than a product on an