User blog comment:CoolCat123450/Character Sheet 1/@comment-4867780-20150531130136/@comment-5265497-20150601035358

Yeah, Cassius was meant to be the oppression of free will that people are still plausibly loyal to despite the apparent despair that people who understand freedom and exercising free thought would find completely intolerable. He is made to demonstrate the disparity in values and cultural significance in a society where even thought itself is completely crushed if it doesn;t align with the beliefs of their merciful dictator. And it's also meant to demonstrate one of the worse exercises of complete power on the surrounding populace. In other words, in our POV, it's negative, but in another's it can be completely positive even without brainwashing which Cassius barely ever wants to resort to. In this way, there is the layer of complexity for his society. I still need to add more information though on the infrastructure, economics, culture, and politics.