Your average Citizen?

I am not to sure how to organize the society of the modern under-Rome. But it stands to reason that it is a society of Permanent infertile young bachelors. All they do is labor, spend their currency and fornicate.

The upper class are the only ones to keep the concept of marriage and families? In fact they put great deal into that, so much so that having a family at all is a huge deal. (maybe watch the godfather and sopranos and some other Mafia related good stuff)

How are new babies made?

They are just vat grown more or less and taken care of by nurses and raised by them. Children are insitutionalized. They are born at the required rate. Birth rates are centrally planned. What problems could arise from that? like centrally planned economy okay, but how does centrally planned birth rate work?

Genes may express themselves differently, so there is variety in intelligence, but it is not that great. Interesting however, is question of how could someone so intelligent could be so boring and vapid. Which is a common characteristic of average citizen, good looking, healthy, very sharp, but completely oblivious to the world around beyond their boundaries. They are not even interested, they do not care. They do not ask questions, and they are not particularily ambitious. They are satisfied and one may even say happy. So someone smart enough to do nuclear science, will be busy taking out trash. They have brain but do not think, They are just hanging about in their microcosm and in this place they have very little needs. Some responsobilities but also a lot of degenerate stuff to do. Eternal bachelorhood, for boys and girls. No moral compass, just following the herd. An individual is not a society within society, there is just the collective herd and his own biology, and very little sandwitched in between.

However, one day a question (read this word in french), why should I work. When I can get what I want for free? And here begins the fun in the underground. As a society without morals and attachments, understanding or interest develops criminality and sadism. Because sex feels good, but its old and we have done it, how about rape and murder and violence? Because these boys and girls were docile kittens their entire lives, conditioned like dodos. They have no idea how to deal with this snake in the garden, This goes for both perpetrators and victims.

There most definetly is an upper Class, These are the guys who run things and run the lower masses. Your Managers etc. These guys are children with mums and dads and so on. There is some upward class mobility, it is rare but it does happen. Rare not because it is difficult, rare because nobody bothers to even consider doing it and there is no pressure from above. Remember, easiest way to get rid off malcontents, is to invite them into the club. And if someone happens to bit more creative, revolutionary and odd, even in their kindergarten, they may end up elsewhere form the very beginning.

Add on to this, that each big city is usually divided by several or maybe even hundred big or small families, and they all want to use the masses in their game against eachother. Criminals become usefull. And you basically have these raider-like people, more degenerate, psychotic but fucking resourcefull and really damn smart.

Romans know a lot about DNA, but not everything. For now let us just say that eggs and sperm are harvested from boys and girls, they themselves are infertile (but it can be activated), women do not have to deal with periods?

They do all come from care homes, and they do get to make choices of what their life is going to be like. despite the fact that they can be very genetically similar. Let us leave that part nebulous. Maybe they tamper with DNA like in brave new world or maybe humans even controlled tend to develop differently . But I see no parents in the picture, despite the fact that these are children and not clones.

How many children would they even need?

What even kills immortally young people?

Are the midwits infertile?

They do screw around like in Huxley, relationships being meaningless? With gene-engineering they all look damn good. Are roughly the same height/ lookswise. They will not age.

How did it come to this?

Things were trending like this in ROman society before war. arguments were made (overpopulation) and because of these people lost/gave up their reproductive autonomy. You had to appeal to someone and they would manufacture baby with your and your spouses DNA. But this limitation was removed as nobody cared about having kids and kids were raised by the state. slowly the idea of parentage eroded aswell as, children were not raised by parents at all and adult children are adults and they did not need parents anymore. Eventually in a generation the entire idea of aprentage stopped.

Is there difference between young and old bachelors(there probably are not that many new young people but maybe undercities want to grow in size and power) (yes families have fights with eachother and they are literally trying to grow their industrial bases by growing their cities so there is always new population) and older bachelors are quite nasty when socializing new ones. as they are just 20 year olds themselves, just how responsible do you think 20year old will be.

The Elites have slowly degraded the people into worker drones, putting the final nail in individual and atomizing them completly. They do not really think much about anything, they are not curious. They have their job, they are very good at it (they are not dumb, they are very sharp all of them), but they just don't give a damn.

What clothes do they wear?

Something skintight? Maybe something even seethrough, its damn hot downthere, so less clothes the better? They smell good probably too.

THey have gyms where they exercise. Differnet fighting sports and dances. A story about how one guy slowly changes and wakes up from it (similar to IGI GEorgian story)

How is it now?

How will it be later?