Editing Worldbuilding Questions (section)

== General Worldbuilding ==

=== <u>Society & Politics</u> ===

==== What is general society like? ====
* How polarised is it?
* What are the major divisive issues?
* Are there any dystopian elements?
* What is the average person like?
** What are the typical aspirations for marriage, job, home life and work?

==== What does politics look like in 2050? ====
* Have they changed much?
* Are there any new, or up-and-coming, political ideas or philosophies?
* Are there any trends in political ideologies across societies?
* Who or what are the most influential or powerful authorities?

==== What does civilisation outside the Biosphere look like? ====
* How might your setting, genre, or world-specific problems impact, civilisation and how it operates?
* What kind of areas do people live in e.g. rural, urban etc.?
* How large is the population of an average community? How tight-knit are they?
* How do they sustain themselves e.g. where do they get resources like food and water from?
* Are there any class differences?
* How have the politics shaped the way society works?
* Are there any factions? What distinguishes one faction from another? Is there one particular issue that divides them all e.g. a religious difference?

==== What does education look like in 2050? ====
* How long is compulsory education? At what age do most people leave school?
* What subjects are compulsory?
* What subjects are optional?
* Are there any new subjects?
* Are their any options for further study?
** If so, what are they?
** How exclusive are they? Is it rare for people to go to/aim for further education?
* How do most people view education?

==== What does work look like in 2050? ====

* How might work be different in 2050? 
* What are the most common professions?
* What job, or sector, is considered the ideal?

==== Religion ====
* Do any real-life religions exist in your world?
** Do they have the same history in your world as they do in real life?
* Are there any religions specific to your world? 
** What fundamental ideas are at the centre of the religion? 
*** Do they have any moral codes of conduct that determine how people should live?
*** What behaviours, ideas or concepts are they opposed to?
*** Do they have a sacred text?
*** Do they believe in any deities? 
**** Is it monotheistic (one deity) or polytheistic (multiple deities)?
*** Do they have an alternative belief, e.g. some sort of force or non-humanlike entity guiding the universe?
** Are there multiple religions?
*** What ideas do they differ on?
*** Did any religions develop from pre-existing ones?
**** How did that happen?
**** When the new religion was created, what changed to separate it from it's origins, e.g. were there any principles that were rewritten?
*** What are the inter-religious relationships like? Are there any particular religions that get on well, or ones that are massively opposed?
**** Has there ever been any religious conflict? 
***** What caused it?
***** What were they fighting over?

=== <u>The Environment</u> ===

* What is the climate like outside the Biosphere?
** How different is it to the climate today?
** To what extent is it able to support life of all kinds?
** How much damage has climate change done?
** Have there been any apocalyptic-level natural disasters?

=== <u>Science & Technology</u> ===

===== Technology level =====

* How advanced is the world's technology? 
** How much is it capable of? 
** What are its limitations? Are you going to set any boundaries on the capabilities of technology in your world?
* How has technology progressed to that level? 
** Are there any historical turning points that allowed it to accelerate advancement?
* Is there anything preventing technology from developing further e.g. limited resources, lack of knowledge etc.?
* Is there any particular type of technology that does more harm than good?
** Were the negative effects intended when it was designed? Why?

===== Power =====

* How is power generated? 
** How much of it is sustainable/renewable energy? 
* Does everywhere use the same type of power?
** Why or why not?

===== Science =====

* Are there any new fields of study? 
* What's the dominant scientific field? 
* Have they discovered things we haven't? 
** If so, how?
* What are the largest scientific debates in 2050?
** Are there any particularly controversial studies or conclusions?
*** Have any of them changed how things in society are done? 

===== AI/Robotics =====

* Do they exist? 
** How advanced are they? 
** What types are there? 
** How are they created? 
** What do they do?
* How much do humans/society trust any AI or robots? What are the ethics/debates surrounding their existence (are they any different from the ones today)?

===== Medicine =====

# How different is medicine in 2050? 
#* How much can it help with? 
#* Can it cure things that we currently have no cure for?
#** How does it achieve this? Does it require futuristic technology or magic?
#* How much medicine is based on technology, magic and/or herbal methods?

===== Bio-engineering =====

* Is it possible? 
* Have any species been bio-engineered? 
** Were there any unintended side-effects/consequences?
*** If there were, was anything learnt as a result? Were any new precautions, rules or laws put in place to prevent it happening again?