If you’re ready to uncover the dynamics driving modern politics, Everstate is where the story begins.

With episode 3, we follow ⁠Everstate,⁠ the fictional nation of Everstate—a mirror for modern-day states, as it faces yet another difficulty.

As we saw previously, citizens must not only face rising threats but political authorities are also increasingly unable to deliver security. In the meantime, with its deepening budget deficit and increasing need for liquidity, Everstate has to handle a creeping appropriation of resources, while the strength of central public power weakens to the profit of various elite groups, first of all the lenders nexus that finances the budget deficit.

Now, it must deal with a type of elite group which is developing strongholds focused on those resources needed by Everstate...

Find out what happens and how Anya, Dimitri and Victor are impacted.

• ​⁠2212 EVT: the Power of Novstate⁠
• ​⁠2212 EVT: Ideological Stakes in an Outdated Worldview⁠
• ​⁠2212 EVT: Material Stakes in an Outdated Worldview⁠

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(The deep dive conversation was created with NotebookLM, reviewed by Dr Helene Lavoix)

Cover Art: Part of the famous triptych by master Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which is used to illustrate the Chronicles of Everstate and the scenarios.