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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fallen Seraph" data-source="post: 4865429" data-attributes="member: 57894">Some ways I have ran it:Taxes and Technology: To keep up the upkeep of the means of performing ressurections the population is taxed. The means too of resurrection is very controlled, and government run. It is done by having one "scanned" and their essentially being translated into a book of punch cards that run through a Difference Engine can recreate you. Now obviously doing such gives the government a perfect record of who you are. So many underground and criminal organizations do not have their members scanned. Instead they either go without, or have underground sources do it (though god forbid if either the punch cards or engine is faulty). Also those who cannot pay the taxes are not allowed to be resurrected (and this is many). This has created a upper-class of near immortals, with a lower class that only through subterfuge and crime can also reach a similar state. To assassinate one of those with punch cards one must steal and/or destroy all punch card records.Necromancy: While not resurrection per-normal, in a setting of mine necro-tech is quite abundant. This has reached the point that births and deaths are viewed almost as non-entities, they very rarely occur with births generally being done only to foster spare parts, or as a eccentric hobby.This has helped lead to a perpetual endless war in one country, with a Great War style trench warfare with both sides throwing quite literally endless amounts of troops into the fray. It has also lead to the training of many snipers (destroying the brain is the only true way to kill someone).Crime is also different with many taking the form of a person being resurrected into a specific task. Their brain placed inside a tank, or inside the body of body-phone conductor, etc. To get rid of this, they must do this task till their time is up.Also, the idea of "ones body" has been utterly destroyed. Random killings, hunting of people, willingly being killed, selling your body, twisting and changing your body all these things occur and are viewed as common things. You may have someone decide to kill of their one body and put their brain inside a dead horse to see what it is like to move around as a horse, or shot themselves in the heart, or kill someone, etc.</blockquote>

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