Editing Welcome to Freedom (section)

===Magistrates===
Magistrates are heroes associated with a particular nation’s government.  For example, the Free City of Ion retains the Maul of Comets to defend their city from whatever demonic monsters come its way.  Sometimes a strand is contracted to maintain or create a Magistrate.  Other times they are purely an embodiment of nationalism to the exclusion of strands.  Additionally, different nations have attempted to balance this tension with various political institutions.  One nation may have a select group of magistrates with life-long terms selected by its parliament.  In another, they are the cream of the military, given a chance to become more than human in the name of the nation.  One nation is even ruled by an aristocracy of genetically enhanced humans who form various political parties which are then elected by the voting normal population.  Magistrates generally have a “built in audience” in their homeland. Simply by representing the nation, they are worthy of adoration.