Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-35725876-20180529172040/@comment-35725876-20180607094945

The book takes place within the first year, so things are still settling, and people are getting used to the new world. But I completely agree with the potential dictators thing. One way to counteract this from happening straight from the start is that the governments would recruit people with powerful powers to make it less tempting to overthrow them (or to at least buy time). This book follows one girl, but if I do write another I'll probably go down that route.

And yes, time travel and paradox-manipulating powers would be very dangerous. Depending on the extent of their effectiveness, they would fall under the X category where the people would be locked away/kept in a coma and kept secret from the general population. Those with suppression powers, or the power to take away other powers would be at the top of the government recruitment list and would be used to supress/remove powers that are too dangerous or powers of dangerous people. (The reason for the comas, etc., is that I'm sure time travel and other powers would be far too tempting/useful for the government to just give up in case of an emergency).