Remember the differing conditions between PMAS and TTS; where we have a single point of cleansing, they have grief cubes.
The MSY
started out as an insurance agency (excess cubes go in the pile, if you're short you can take some) with attached treaty organization (to reduce fighting over cubes and provide external defense) with authority deriving from access to the cube pile. It quickly grew a business arm (because it got big enough to need full-time employees that in turn needed money), a healthcare arm (because the first things to be negotiated were
almost certainly "can you heal me"), and eventually accumulated enough bureaucracy and legal rulings and power to become a legitimate government. It was, for all intents and purposes, the socialist ideal
gone perfectly right.
We can't do that here. We can't do anything even close. We don't have cubes, which means we don't have a stockpile, which means we don't have the authority to start a treaty organization, which means we can't become a government. The MSY
will not work in PMAS.
What we can do is our own thing. We derive authority from Sabrina's cleansing: you follow our rules or you don't get cleansing. Everything expands from there. Right now Sabrina can run around cleansing everybody, but at some point people will have to start coming to her. That's the hotel. Eventually people won't be able to come to us fast enough under their own power, and the hotel will gradually broaden into a sort of "underground railroad", in the beginning, and eventually grow the same business arm so we can do things like buy plane tickets and hire transportation-focused meguca to assist with long-distance travel. We'll need to maintain peace so we aren't revealed and to avoid fights on the way here and while people are in the hotel. We'll use our cleansing as leverage to force parties to accept arbitration. Where the MSY was socialist, we will be imperial. Which is super annoying, because people hate being talked down to.
Sabrina's the Empress and she
has to be, because she's the source of all of the power, but her Empire
starts with that hotel. That's the only place it
can start. Whoever runs it is the second most important person in the entire Empire. It'll eventually be the
most important position. Because, after a certain point, logistics dictate where the cleansing goes. Politics dictates who the Empress gives cleansing to. Rules and teaching dictate the culture. Sabrina will, eventually, become a figurehead and religious figure. That's what we're giving to Mami. Not a hotel.
