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The Apex Communist Federation, led by the Apex Communist Party (also known to the Apex as the “APECOM Party,” or simply “The Party”), is another sad example of Karl Marx’s good intentions being abused by tyrants interested in their own personal gain as opposed to their citizens.The Federation originates from former president of the New United States of America, O'Brien, who became disillusioned with Militech's influence on the nation. So he and his supporters left Earth to start their own communist democracy based on the principles of Karl Marx.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions; O'Brien's original intentions were to establish a society free from corrupt corporations influencing the government from behind the scenes. However, while his idea was noble in theory, in practice, things went terribly wrong. Inner Party members corrupted his communist utopia into an Orwellian dystopia and, before he could die, O'Brien had his consciousness forcibly uploaded into a security program, creating Big Ape. Corrupt members of the Inner Party used Big Ape as a puppet leader, while the corrupt elite led behind the scenes. This resulted in an oppressive regime that vilified the United Systems through propaganda as a corrupt, capitalist, oligarchy, despite the United Systems having laws that actively kept corporations in check.
Apex society is heavily divided into three social classes: the Proles, the Outer Party, and the Inner Party.
The Proles, short for proletariats, are the working class of Apex society. The only benefit they have is the fact that they’re not constantly monitored by the Inner Party, but they’re kept ignorant by the Inner Party to prevent an uprising. They are the majority of the Apex population.
The majority of Party members are Outer Party members. They are the middle-class of Apex society. They are bureaucrats or other workers who are tasked with implementing the policies of the Inner Party. They have access to the domed cities, which feature better housing and “education”, but they are subject to surveillance and control by the Inner Party and its propaganda machine.
The Inner Party is the ruling elite of Apex society, consisting of high-ranking officials and their families. They live in luxury at the expense of everyone else living in Spartan conditions, at best, and they maintain their control through propaganda, surveillance, and fear.
The four ruling ministries of the Party are the Ministry of Information (MiniInfo in Apespeak), the Ministry of Justice (MiniJust), the Ministry of Production (MiniProd), and the Ministry of Peace (MiniPax).
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Production with starvation, the Ministry of Justice with torture, and the Ministry of Information with propaganda. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate.