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I haven't put too much thought into that, because I'm focusing on developing the scaffolding before those ideas can take shape.
Basically, the political factions in this world are divided into two predominant ideologies/philosophies. The first one is Unitism, which is the anti-predation side, and says different species should live in peace and cooperate, use technology and biochemistry to allow carnivores to live on plant based food, and that all species are equal in value, but different species have different traits, which give them advantages and disadvantages, and that it's only by different species cooperating instead of trying to eat each other can they each use their advantages to their full extent while collectively cancelling out their disadvantages. Contrasted with Trophism, which says that the food chain must be above all else and that both predator and prey need to carry it out without question or criticism, and it's as much of a crime for predators to choose not to eat prey as it is for prey to try and avoid being eaten using any sort of technology beyond the defences they naturally evolved.
On the Unitist side, I have two main factions of focus. Most of the small and medium sized Unitist species, are apart of something called the Unified Territories. They are an alliance of many different groups of related species, called taxa, each of which have their own government. For example, you have the Vulpine government, the Rodent government, and the Avian government. You can kind of think of individual species as provinces, taxa as countries, and the Unified Territories would be analogous to something like the USSR.
However, there is one other Unitist (anti-predation) taxon that is independent. That's the Felines, whose government resides in its own territory, not apart of the Unified Territories. Because they've also agreed not to eat other animals, they are allied with the Unified Territories, but are still their own thing. This is partially because they have developed a very different culture from the Unified Territories, but they are still extremely cooperative with the UT. It is generally understood that the separation of Unitist taxa and territories is temporary and as their multispecies culture continue to mature, separate territories and taxonomic governments will eventually be dropped in favour of a fully integrated system.
Finally, I should mention the in-universe distinction between predator/prey and carnivore/herbivore. Predator and prey are behavioural designations, and reflect how you an an individual interact with other animals, and most animals are predators to some species and prey to others. Carnivore and herbivore are biological designations, and reflect whether your body can naturally get all its essential nutrients from plants, or if you need technology to assist with that. So "predators" who choose to hunt other animals are banned in Unitist territory, but not carnivores like Felines or Vulpines.
Ah I see, very interesting! So the world is like the human world but in animal terms, reminds me a lot of Cold War dynamics, I assume that’s what it’s partly based on.
So in this universe, wouldn’t there exist plant based meat? Isn’t that a lot more efficient than bioengineering plants to have the same nutrients as meat? And I was also curious what the culture of these animals are, are they like separate completely or do they share traits and beliefs with one another?
Kind of. I started this project well before I became a socialist, and while I've changed some things to parallel real life socialism, a lot of it is either coincidental (developed before I had a good idea of what socialism is) or just comes down to how I describe it, which nowadays is often through a socialist lens.
The world is similar to the human world in a lot of its constructs because they were heavily influenced by the discovery of the humans' stored knowledge and data after they went extinct. It have them a huge boost in their technological development because they didn't have to start from scratch once they figured out how to decode and extract information from human data storage devices. It's how I justify why animals would use things like meters, minutes, human programming and mathematical constructs, etc. The Unitists were almost certainly influenced by human socialist theory as well, but I generally don't make a lot of in-universe references to human history or theory because that breaks the immersion IMO.
Plant based meat exists, as do synthetic meat where you just make the exact same chemicals found in meat from raw materials. But by far the most common solution for carnivores is dietary enzyme supplements. You take a pill once a week, which contains synthetic enzymes that attach to your digestive tract and lets your body do nifty things like digest cellulose and convert it into protein, and synthesize essential nutrients only found in meat. My main character, the cat, helped develop a dietary enzyme formulation for obligate carnivores like Felines.
The Unitist species are very cooperative with each other, and there is a general philosophy that because different species are good at different things, working together allows everyone to focus on what they're best at and collectively cancel out what they're not good at. Different taxonomic groups have somewhat different cultures, but they form a harmonious mosaic where the differences complement and make the whole stronger as a result, basically hijacking the concept of niches for their multispecies society.
Trophist species are significantly less cooperative, even between species with the same ideology. Different predator species are inherently competitive and not cooperative, and it still holds true in their world.
Absolutely! Dietary enzyme supplements are an entirely animal creation. Humans don't need them to go vegan but carnivores like cats, dogs, mustelids, etc do.
Quantum interfaces marked their surpassing of humanity in technological development. These are devices that can arbitrarily interact with and manipulate quantum systems and in theory can do literally anything.
They also developed ways of managing their ecosystem now that predation is off the table. Unitist ecosystems are prosperous and balanced because they take great care in managing it beyond just having predators to control prey population.
They were destroyed in the various revolutions that led to species becoming Unitist. The path to unitism for former predators like cats, ironically, is filled with violence and bloodshed as the individuals still determined to continue hunting viciously fought back against the individuals trying to move their species/taxa beyond it.
They are on top of their various Trophist societies, but the Unitists are significantly ahead of them in terms of technology, so they can't really go on the offensive against them because they'll get their asses handed to them. Unitists are pacifist and don't go around looking to start wars, but they're fully prepared to show anyone who tries to hunt them their full technological prowess.
Trophism is largely comprised of former apex predatoes like wolves, bears, etc. Not to say there are no Unitist apex predators, though.
Part of the reason Unitism arose primarily in physically smaller was their need to develop technology to defend themselves from the larger predators. Working together allowed them to develop technology faster, which eventually led to the idea of Unitism.