User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Speculative Spitballing: The General Public/@comment-5426254-20150720004504

I think that yeah, they're ordinary. I would guess that many kids are aiming to be Hunters, and that it would be a prestigious prize. Also, I suspect that many Kingdom tactics involve propaganda to suppress negativity. Vale has the "everything's nice" card, Atlas has patriotism and I suspect they destroy dissidents under an 1984 regime.