Setting Details

Large numbers of small homogenous groups. "I am a member of the Short Red tribe"

The society is in the midst of a period of dramatic growth and material progress. Ex: 1920s, 1960s

Gunpowder, printing press, fully-rigged ships, hot air balloons, black-powder musket, cannon, sailing warship

Cars, airplanes, radio, ocean liners, submarines, battleships, tanks, machine-guns, fighter aircraft, fission bomb, flak jacket, hydroelectric power, alternating current electricity, major surgery, antibiotics

Secrets, infiltration, covert manipulation of others

Turning a fast buck, trade, administration

Heroic characters in a high-action world

Emotional characters dealing with joyful events and personal tragedies