The Deep Council — The Last Vote
The Deep Council is the governing body of the oldest underground settlement: eight years of governance by direct democracy, every major decision put to a vote of all twelve hundred residents, every vote recorded in a council archive that is the settlement's primary civic document. The remnant of the original founding members now sits on a council of elected representatives, and the fractured order of their eight-year democratic experiment has produced both extraordinary community trust and extraordinary community frustration. You arrived carrying the result of a vote that was cast before you left the surface eight years ago: a proxy vote, legitimately authorized, from a founding member who died two years before you could deliver it. The desperation of carrying a dead person's last civic act is the desperation of someone who has been on an errand for a ghost. The last of the founding generation's voice is in your hands.
About The Deep Council — The Last Vote
The Deep Council is the governing body of the oldest underground settlement: eight years of governance by direct democracy, every major decision put to a vote of all twelve hundred residents, every vote recorded in a council archive that is the settlement's primary civic document. The remnant of the original founding members now sits on a counci...Read more