A fun story, but also with that macabre undertone. To be honest, I wasn sure of an example of a book rs gold for you to look at, but what does come to mind is a book named Tipping of the Velvet.Spoilers, but you just be looking at it for example. A large chunk of the book is a romantic, fun, and frilly love story between two women in 19th century England.
Zodiac group reminds me of Metal Gear games with their big bad group named the Patriots something similar to what you mentioned. Take a look at that if you haven perhaps.And about the stuff you stumped on, let see.I think it depends on how great your magic is in your alternate world. It could be minor or somewhat major. But probably major. But hey, with a major change to technology you able to write about all kinds of new technology to entertain people.
By vilifying Trump voters and calling them all trash / traitors / unhuman, without any background on why they voted the way they did, you are doing the exact same thing the Nazi ideology created, and what some of the GOP and media is doing to immigrants. You are categorizing them as sub human so that it easier for you to blame them.
That kind of attitude causes the cycle to continue. You essentially have to give voters an "out" on their past voting and let them keep their dignity intact. If you just call them trash/stupid/idiots/etc then you just cause them to double down, immediately go into defensive mode and continue on with their behavior of saying the other side is against them.
There are probably lots of trump voters out there who do have regrets about voting for him, but if you throw their choice in their face as wrong then you are insulting their basic fundamental right as a US citizen. This causes the opposite effect and makes them close off their viewpoints and continue down a path of team vs team.
Why are you even debating all of this to begin with, if you truly think it a waste of time just because Jagex is not going to be my direct audience then why do you feel the strong need to type 400 paragraphs on a thread with 0 scoreEdit: the correlation and causation part, where did I even say that one was because the other? I just think it relevant because it was KNOWN for being quick and easy at one time