With all due respect: "a state where most people are just surviving." It's not new. It's called feudalism. When a powerful elite owns just about everything,

With all due respect: "a state where most people are just surviving." It's not new. It's called feudalism. When a powerful elite owns just about everything, a minority of the people serve as specialists at the master's pleasure, and the rest are peasants/serfs (or rogues/thieves).