Editing Welcome to Freedom (section)

===What is the Hegemony?===
Technically speaking, the Thracian Hegemony is a transnational civil society that espouses universal principles for humanity and that supports political, economic, and social institutions that compliment those principles.  '''To be clear, the Hegemony is not a government or business.'''  Humanity is incredibly diverse, and it is inevitable that different societies will have different economic and political structures.  The Hegemony respects those differences.  However, humanity must learn how to best create a universal community, and the Hegemony offers the tools for doing so.  The Hegemony serves humanity in all its infinite possibilities.  Markets and governments are inevitable and necessary, but they must serve humanity, rather than force humanity to serve them.  

The Hegemony it is a network of organizations and institutions dedicated to helping humanity transcend the parochialism, tyranny, and monstrosity.  These non-economic, non-governmental organizations are collectively called "strands", formal organizations with specific missions in accordance with the Hegemonic worldview.  Some promote particular industries, others general economic growth, or a political concern, a form of government, or any number of countless other matters.  However, each combine is defined by an interest it promotes in the name of the Hegemony: humanity shall be free, given a voice, and dynamically integrated.