Ramusian Isolated Social Experiment Worlds

The Ramusian Isolated Social Experiment Worlds is a single star system faction located in a remote, largely inaccessible region of the Perseus Arm located between the Heart and Soul Nebula and the Krizael Expanse. They were created by the Ramusian Socialist Republic, but the society was left to function on its own after the RSR collapsed. The RISEW is one of numerous lost Vaikan factions that appeared after the Perseus War.

Structure
The RISEW was created as a social experiment as a means of not only firsthand research into alternate forms of government, but to also provide a route for escapism for the common population as a means of getting them to forget about real world problems, specifically the Perseus War.

The RISEW is located across the terraformed moons of the gas giant Bustean as well as some nearby asteroids. On the actual moons, the inhabitants participate in a massive scale live action role playing modeled after a medieval fantasy setting. What the inhabitants know as magic is cleverly disguised as nanobots, NPCs are androids and the various magical creatures are actually genetically engineered beings. An artificial intelligence carefully manages resources, watching over the players and serving as the only means of government.

Players interact with one another, doing quests and exchanging goods with one another. The only catch is that death is permanent. Player versus player combat to the death is legal on some worlds, but not others. If a player is caught breaking the rules, then the artificial intelligence will send drones in to apprehend the player, "banning" them by taking them to a space station in high orbit.

History
The RISEW was created around the year 500 BC when the Perseus War was at its climax. Despair was rampant and morale was dropping as the RSR's citizens were heavily disatisfied with the war. Wanting to find a quick way to get the public distracted, they created the RISEW.

Since the fall of the RSR, the RISEW still continued to run, the inhabitants unaware of the happenings outside their solar system. It was not long before players begun to have children with one another, until after many generations, they forgot that they were in a live action roleplaying game to begin with.

However, after two thousand years, much of the technological systems behind the RISEW are beginning to fail. Around the year 1800 AD, "magic" stopped working and many of the genetically engineered creatures begun to go extinct due to their reliance on the RISEW's systems to survive. The actual inhabitants managed to adapt, but it soon started to descend into anarchy. Some continued to uphold the rules while others started doing whatever it took to survive.