User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Neutral 'verse Character Sheet: Emperor Bradley Hargrave/@comment-28694519-20160901221623/@comment-26322734-20160901234238

It's less of him caring for them, and more about him caring for the philophical principals he stands for, which require him to take care of them.

His father completely subjugated the people. And since he died while Bradley was still very young, the hopes were low for him as a person. So Bradley is doing this whole communist utopia so that he can prove that he's much better than his father, while also being a strong leader (which ironically doesn't make him much better than his father). His overall goal is to create a sustained utopia in which the people are happy and ruled absolutely, which is the vision of every fascist, I think.

So he doesn't destroy humanity because he's against it in principal. I'm actually going to make a section soon about how the death penalty is nonexistent in the Empire (instead getting replaced with a cruel punishment that invokes existential horror and the And I Must Scream trope).