Society under NOSTRUM

The society under NOSTRUM has seen enormous changes in citizen rights and social mobility since the Conflagration. The social structure is hierarchical and organised along the lines of strata and then divided by gender.

Gender
Main article: Gender Policy 

Gender's are segregated in Iron Mountain through the use of restricted areas, and a system of work and break schedules that ensures minimal physical contact. Workers are organised into gendered work-shifts and sleep or have recreation in seperate dormitories and common areas.

This policy was introduced as a means of population control, and because the layout of Iron Mountain itself is not condusive for allowing family units to have thier own private areas.

Children
Children under NOSTRUM are conceived through orders from the Genetic and Gender Policy Unit (GENPOL). GENPOL works with other Directorate's and Functions, such-as Resource Management, to calculate required personnel levels and organises the Rota-Procreation to fulfill those needs decades in-advance.

Children are not raised by their parents but in a Nursery, under the supervision of all-female staff. At the age of 8, they are seperated from this unit and raised in gendered dormitories and classrooms.

Contact between children and their parents is typically limited to the same gender, a male child is often expected to apprentice and then replace their father in their strata and vice-versa for a female child.