The books present the development of the Martian economic system as a long struggle culminating in a year-long constitutional convention and followed by all-but

The books present the development of the Martian economic system as a long struggle culminating in a year-long constitutional convention and followed by all-but-civil-war and subsequent political hostility between opposing parties, with lots of trade-offs, compromises, betrayals, deal-breaking, backstabbing, etc.