[Spoilers C3E103] It's worth pointing out....

I feel like its worth pointing out Exandria was bordering on a Utopia prior to the Solstice shenanigans and Ludinus messing things up.

• What discrimination based on intrinsic traits (race, sexuality, gender etc) there was has completely disappeared from the world in the gap between C2 and C3. Now the only persecution is that of class or occasionally religious (the religion one is frankly a new thing).

• Magic and technology is approaching Age of Arcanum levels once again. We've gone from firearms just being reintroduced to actual Madmax style vehicles.

• Major wars are infrequent and short lived. And despite teleportation being a thing are seemingly mostly limited to front lines.

• Resurrection is a service that almost anyone can acquire with enough money/right contacts.

• The potential damage the Betrayer gods can do is inherently limited by the Divine Gate. Mortals need to actively worship or make deals with the embodiments of evil for them to affect the world. And even if the Betrayers all died tomorrow, the Elder Evils, demigods, various fiends would do that instead. Short of removing free will you cant exactly change this.

• Certain places have moved on from semi-feudal to fullblown capitalist. That has its own issues, but it means scarcity is more artificial than genuinely lacking resource.

• Slavery is no longer a thing? At all?

• TalDorei one of the foremost nations is a sort of democracy others will likely follow. Its also an incredibly nice place to live outside of occasional monsters.

• Afterlives are a confirmed thing and arent necessarily tied to worshipping specific gods.

• The Hellish afterlives are only things you go to if you sell your soul or are killed in some exceptional way (certain fiends can turn you into lemures).

• Free will is a confirmed truth of the setting. This is something Matt has been expressly clear on since day 1. If it wasnt, I highly doubt the gods would allow Ludinus to get this far.

So my question would be....why rock the boat?

Frankly if Exandria was better managed, there would be no scarcity related issues. Even as it stands, they are on the brink of a cyberpunk/spelljammer society. Hell with another timeskip they probably will be Spelljammer. Exandria in space.