Resleeving technology allows for a person’s memories and consciousness (termed digital human freight, or DHF) to be recorded onto a disk-shaped device called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. Physical human or synthetic bodies are called “sleeves”, and stacks can be uploaded to new bodies after death, but a person can still be killed if their stack Is destroyed and there is no backup. People have the means to change bodies through clones and remote storage and transfer of their consciousness in satellites, so they never have to die of old age before being resleeved.

The "Pact of Forgetting" (Pacto de Olvido) in Spain is an example of post-autocracy transition. After Franco's death, the left and right parties of Spain agreed not to confront the legacy of the civil war or fascism under Franco. This gave amnesty for crimes during the civil war and under fascism but also did not valorise or memorialise the Francoist regime.

There are 2 broad models of integrating immigrants:

• The Assimilationist Model emphasises a singular national culture, and social social norms against retaining one's previous cultural identity
• The Multicultural Model emphasises the nation as a community of different cultures, and only weakly requires the adoption of pre-existing cultural traditions