User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The Democratic Imperium of Neohumanity/@comment-27030725-20150929203741/@comment-26322734-20150930023915

1) Depends on where you draw the line. Exotic matter is made out of particles just like regular matter (albiet particles that follow different rules from byronic matter), so there's no reason the D.I.N. shouldn't be able to manipulate exotic matter the same way. That being said, mathematical magic definitely helps in allowing them to create the more miraculous material, like energy-matter and metals highly reactive with quantum fields.

2) The differences are cultural. Whereas Selforge City seems to be based a lot on physical pleasures and personal fulfillment, Neohumanity focuses a lot on intellectual persuits like painting, writing, and exploring. This isn't to say that they completely forego physical pleasures, however. It's just their culturally progressive and transhumanist mindset that makes them more focused on intellectual persuits and evolution. Furthermore, the D.I.N, while not expansionist, isn't as selective as Selforge city; they believe Utopia should be for everybody rather than a select few. This is why a lot of Neohumans set off to other universes or to other galaxies to raise more primitive civilizations into more technologically complex places that have enough resources to be utopian all on their own (which, you can argue, is a cultural imperialism, except the D.I.N. doesn't have a government really so they don't seize control of such elevated civilizations, and individual Neohumans usually leave once they're sure that their project is well off on its own). OZMAGNUMOPUS is different from Lawrence in the fact that it's an unrelatable being, transcendent and nigh-impossible to completely understand on a personal level. OZMAGNUMOPUS does however create proxy personalities to speak to Neohumans in a form they're more comfortable with.