Editing Flamepunk:Social Order (section)

===Middle Classes - The Merchants and Technicians===

Middle class Kiorans have it somewhat better. They are still often beholden to Guilds for their daily bread, and many of them remain in debt to Guilds for their entire lives. However, they're not spending their days in a scorching-hot factory, dying slowly of blacklung and toxic fumes, so they consider their lot to be fairly good.

The Kioran middle class is made up of mid-level Guild functionaries, Guild merchants, technical professionals such as surveyors, architects, and flametech experts, and Church personnel. 

The Hadar influence on the middle classes falls mainly in the area of protection rackets, bribery, and black market goods.