Thousands of years ago, the east side of the continent united under their first monarchy. After the monarchy became well established, it led to less fighting and more innovating. With better equipment for farming and better chances of surviving longer, there was a population boom.

Early on Nagdecht had to decide how to approach handling its large population, and Nagdecht decided to go with the idea that, “If everyone does their part a large population makes us stronger.”
This philosophy is deeply ingrained in Naggian culture and has translated in a great need for everyone to have a job, any job, as long as they can contribute something. People take huge pride in their work.

In the modern day, students attend school until they reach adulthood at nineteen. Then they’re expected to go to the employment office and find a job. The employment office is controlled by the government and every available job has to be listed with them; combined with how easy it is for people to start their own business, it makes it an easy task to find openings.

Finding a job for every person is important to them as it’s seen as giving someone a way to be self-sufficient, included and proud. The employment office works hard to find work for everyone who can conceivably do something.
With the amount of pressure on people to do as much as they can, it can be intimidating for young adults like Leander, who don’t know what they want to do yet and have immense competition.
For the first few years young employees are paid less and expected to hop from job to job until they find a match for them. This opens up a lot of opportunities for employers who want some cheap labor and new adults who want to get their foot in the door. Job-hopping is expected and not looked down upon as most people still consider nineteen years olds young and don’t expect them to know what they want to do until they have more experience.

People who continue switching jobs in their mid-twenties will be seen as immature and unreliable and will have a harder time finding employers who take them seriously. If they don’t stay in a job long enough to be properly trained they’ll also continue to receive minimum wage.

In Leander’s time people are living much longer; long enough to reach retirement age. This has created an upsurge in consignment shops. The majority of retirees in Nagdecht take up a hobby; whether it’s knitting, building model houses or making toys. Rather than mass-produce items like they would at a regular job, they spend a lot of time making items by hand.
They can then take what they’ve made to a consignment shop – many of which specialize in selling goods from senior citizens.
The shops are generally considered to be full of high quality goods that can be a little pricey, but it goes to a good cause (supporting seniors). It lets seniors work on projects at their own pace and continue to produce goods. Selling goods in a consignment shop is a source of pride for the seniors because it allows them to continue to contribute and lets them show off labors of love.