Slavery

Slavery became prominent in Phoenie after the war, when the police and the government were busy rebuilding the country and fighting small criminals that used the post-war country circumstances for their profit.

Slavery is both a known problem which Freedom Fighters and the police nowadays fight on the daily, and at the same time a topic that is broadly hushed up. This is mainly because most slave owners are rich, influential names in Phoenie.

Slave traders catch slaves in different parts of the country, usually when they‘re in solitude. Nearly everyone can become a slave, but the most valuable slaves are muscular Elementars for physical labour and conventionally pretty Elementars for housekeeping and sexual purposes. There is also a cult of Gladiator slaves, which are specifically used for fights with other Gladiator slaves until death.

Special kinds of slaves are rare slaves, like shinies or rare subspecies, as well as celebrity slaves, slaves that are/were a public figure.

A slave that is “used up” or “broken” will either be incinerated, so there are no traces left of their existence, or will become a cheap rental slave, who people can rent for a certain amount of time to do all sorts of messed up things with them.

Slave Bureaucracy
Every slave gets a three digit slave number tattood on their body to identify them. It also marks them as a slave as long as it‘s visible, and an unwritten rule is that a free slave is no longer free when someone sees their slave number.

Slave traders sell slaves on special bazaars. Their location changes everytime and the location is shared in secret shortly before the opening. Slave traders present their slaves in cages or on an auction, and buyers bring them home with their own vehicle.

Slave owners can marry a slave, but there is a bureaucracy behind this, meaning if an owner marries a slave the slave can‘t be owned by anyone else for the amount of time written on the contract.

Trivia

 * Most Slaves get electriconic tags on their ankles, which stops them from escaping their facility
 * „Used up“ slaves get killed and incinerated, leaving no remains of them and never giving them a chance to be free again.