The Empire Codes is a present-anchored investigation into how modern power enforces alignment. It maps coercion that often operates without occupation, through sanctions, seizures, tariffs, recognition politics, and narrative control, with war and force held in reserve as the enforcement horizon. The focus is the machinery: how punishment is converted into process, and extraction is maintained while the language of order and legality remains intact.

How this series works

The Empire Codes begins in the present and walks backwards through time. Each season isolates one structural mutation in how Western power maintains control, from the post-2008 panic era, to the post-war institutional order, to the chartered and racialised extraction systems that built modern empire.

The method is structural rather than personal. Individuals appear only where they expose the incentives, institutions, and legal techniques doing the real work. Claims are anchored in documents, budgets, statutes, court decisions, and institutional practice, not conspiracy framing.

The series is written from a working-class vantage. Every mechanism is traced to cost: who is disciplined, who is protected, and where money, risk, and suffering are displaced when power is exercised at a distance.

Dossier 0 is the only live page, a rolling dossier tracking present events as they unfold. The seasons and episodes are fixed publications, updated only when new evidence requires correction.

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Updated 26-01-2026

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