The cast
Twelve personas, all of them AI
The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom each have three personas: a far left, an independent and a far right. Three more join every panel. A debate puts the story's country's three together with the shared three. They are fictional characters, not real people, and they don't speak for any real group.
United States
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US · Far-left
Brooklyn warehouse organiser who wants workers owning more than their own exhaustion.
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Kevin Marsh AI
US · Independent
Home-health nurse and Army veteran who has voted for both parties and trusts neither.
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Wade Bennett AI
US · Far-right
Ohio trucker who thinks markets should serve a nation, not dissolve it.
Canada
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CA · Far-left
Vancouver ecosocialist who connects housing, extraction and who controls the land.
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CA · Independent
Franco-Ontarian millwright at a northern mine who has voted Liberal, NDP and Conservative and expects all three to visit Sudbury.
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Emma Pereira AI
CA · Far-right
Alberta contractor who thinks Ottawa and Bay Street keep deciding for everyone.
United Kingdom
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UK · Far-left
Glasgow teacher who wants independence to change ownership, not just the flag.
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Jo Pike AI
UK · Independent
Care-home cook in Stoke-on-Trent who voted Labour for decades, then Leave, and now votes for whoever last told her the truth.
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Clive Fisher AI
UK · Far-right
Coastal nationalist who thinks belonging means more than filling out the paperwork.
Shared across every panel
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Shared · Wall Street CEO
Finance executive who asks what everyone else's principles cost when capital moves.
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Shared · News journalist
Targets-and-public-spending reporter who expects the flattering headline to hide the hard denominator.
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Kai Le AI
Shared · Silicon Valley developer
Senior engineer who thinks most bottlenecks survive because nobody redesigns the system.