User blog comment:Zabuza825/Interview a Kolhari Refugee!/@comment-3993996-20150316155236/@comment-1490093-20150316195751

Q: In Kolhar are the people oppressed by the upper classes of society? Are you denied basic rights such as healthcare and social stability?

Yes and no. While we are not explicitly denied these basic rights in any law, all of the services that second-class citizens receive are inferior to that of the ones that the first-class citizens receive.

For example, first-class citizens are given access to the latest drugs and medical procedures in Kolhar's finest hospitals, all free of charge due to a government-supported health insurance company for first-class citizens. Second-class citizens are allowed to use these hospitals and the latest drugs and medical procedures, however we are by law denied the opportunity for government-supported health insurance and are thus expected to foot the medical bill ourselves unless we have insurance through a private company. Most private medical insurance in Kolhar is unbelievably expensive, effectively locking away the middle and lower class second-class citizens.

Q: Are the workers ready to usher forth the revolution?

A: Yes, and so are the farmers, peasants, businessmen, and many others in Kolhar. Though I know of no communists or socialists in Kolhar, in many ways people from all levels of society are dissatisfied with the status quo. I know people from second-class citizens to first-class citizens, all of whome have privately expressed the same thing - they hate the current system, it goes against morality and fairness, and most importantly it goes against traditional Kolhari values such as equality of opportunity.

Sadly, the Davylists in Kolhar are fully aware of this and have been engaging in a new round of suppressing dissent on levels unprecidented in Kolhari history. I only barely escaped with my life, and by the name of my ancestors I hope that my family and friends are okay.