Self-awareness is how an individual consciously knows and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires.

The Report is a machine that, at midnight, generates a daily reel of all the crimes that will happen that day (in video footage form). These crimes have not occurred yet, but will at some point in the day. The Report has a 98.9% accuracy rate, and the police use its videos as evidence to find and arrest supposed criminals prior to the crime taking place.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in the aftermath of World War 2 as an alliance for mutual military defence against the Soviet Union. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty commits each NATO member to defend an attack against any one member state; it has only been invoked once in NATO history against Afghanistan after the September 11 terrorist attacks in America. NATO member countries include USA, Canada, and European countries as far west as the UK and as far east as Poland and Turkey, comprising 31 member states in total. Currently, NATO requires its member countries to meet a minimum 2% GDP military defence spending; most countries do not reach this minimum.

Corporate residential landlords are corporations that own and maintain multiple apartments for the purpose of renting them out for residential use.

Some parents have moved towards a trend of raising young children without gender. This involves using they/them pronouns for the child until they are old enough to choose pronouns, hiding the baby’s sex from others, etc.

Escapism refers to the desire to avoid confronting or engaging with problems, stressors or otherwise unpleasant events and thoughts.

In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors using a random representative sample of the population.