So, for the last some months (I have no idea how many.) I've been exploring environmental apocalypse and creating a way through it. Mary did that. I had some great world leaders to write for those.
I write constructive societal change through leadership. Points of crisis are things that will change all of civilization, such as the speed of travel or communications, and especially a change in lifespan. Most are quite clear, but custom-survival conflict can accrete slowly and subtly. I write the heroes and the mentors.
Writing social leaders, who are also the big-badge undercover cop is fun. Lead society to change in the society pages, with style, and fight the parasites taking advantage of its weakened condition, with more advanced tech, bigger guns and uncompromising ideals, as in
Platinum Mind and the SI series.
Question: If there are 200 worlds, many becoming overpopulated, how far out on the on the end of the line on the right of the bell curve are those people who are the most intelligent or talented? Fun stuff to extrapolate.