When humanity came up with the idea to create the Scythedom, several hundred years before the start of the novel, it put rules in place to guide scythe behavior, while also insisting to the rest of humanity that scythes are unusually and incorruptibly just and moral. By setting up a swath of society that's effectively outside the realm of the law, Scythe makes the case that even in its ideal, utopian society, the corruption that the Thunderhead was supposed to prevent still runs rampant-and is even more difficult to stop from within. Instead, the world is governed by the Thunderhead, a sentient, all-knowing, and reliably fair version of the modern-day "cloud." While the Thunderhead can perform any number of necessary tasks and services, like call for ambudrones, police infractions, and monitor the populace from its many cameras, it does have one blind spot: by design, it cannot watch, record, or catalogue data that has anything to do with scythes, who have a separate cloud-like system to record their goings-on. In the world of Scythe, politics as they existed in the Age of Mortality no longer exist.
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