Humanis
Structure
Humanis acts as the face, all smiles and hand-shakes in public, but pushing for hate behind closed doors. Everything they do is legal, or at least legal-ish, and they’re where you get the core dogwhistles crafted that the media and the footsoldiers then repeat. The network of hate goes further of course, from Alamos 20,000 as their terrorist side to corporation promotion networks that keep goblins down while promoting humans with half the talent to the Unicorn Hunt Posse to a bunch of drunken guys dragging trolls behind their pickup trucks.
Culture
There are dozens of hate groups out there, but Humanis is the largest and the one with the most acceptance by the ignorant masses, draping itself in the flag of patriotism (regardless of the country they are in), religion, and “traditional values.” Millions buy into their hype about “protecting the purity of humanity” and all that shit. At the end of the day they’re modern Nazis—nothing more, nothing less. Give them nothing except a punch in the face or a bullet to the brainpan.
Worse, these guys don’t see themselves as racists. If you ask Humanis members, probably ninety-five percent of them will tell you that racism is bad, and they don’t want anything to do with it, but they won’t say that they, themselves, are racists. They have a concept of this “racist golem” in their head, some hood-wearing goon who burns crosses and wants to beat orks to death with crow- bars, and they just can’t see how wanting more orks to “act human” or warning people about dwarf conspiracies is at all racist since, to them, they’re not advocating killing orks while wearing hoods so clearly they can’t be racist. It hurts your head on the outside, but there it is.
Public Agenda
The Humanis Policlub, officially, is a pro-human group. They want to protect humanity and ensure that they aren’t reduced to a minority, and they act to protect that position. Unofficially, they’re anti-everything-else, and they will happily undercut an elf as much as an ork to remind them who’s in control around here. There’s a smaller subsection dedicated to a more final solution, some who are dedicated to just suppressing one metatype more than others, some out for revenge, and, of course, some who are there for that sweet, sweet nuyen. Many rank-and-file members are even legitimate in their pro-humanity stance, having been fed a constant diet of disinformation from bad sources that has trained them that Those People are always a threat to the community and/or the children (“Protect the children!” is used as an excuse to do so much evil in this world) who don’t really think about how their actions hurt the minority. They’re not innocent but ignorant in just the right way. A guy who wants to keep the neighborhood safe, so he pays for Lone Star patrols that pick your cousin up for “driving while tusked,” didn’t mean to hurt your family, but you’re at your cousin’s funeral all the same.
As the face of the overall anti-metahuman movement, the Humanis Policlub sticks to politics. Running candidates, influence-peddling, trading votes, quid pro quo, and of course, moving money around to support their racist ideals and candidates willing to advance their plans are all in the playbook. They’re experts in messaging, and the advantage of having one core message (humans good, metas bad!) lets them ally with just about anyone as long as their agenda gets advanced. They aren’t opposed to working with other meta-organizations, either, as long as things can be aligned properly—there’s a whole thing between the Humanis Policlub and some pro-elven policlubs in Tír Tairngire, for instance. They push for humans to get a second-class status behind elves but above everyone else, and they support the elven racists who push down on goblins. Frag, you can even find some of them reaching out to the Sons of Sauron, who want orks to break off from the UCAS and start their own nation, an idea that Humanis is fully behind and would love to see happen.
Assets
They never get their hands dirty; that’s for the Human Nation and Alamos 20,000, but the policlub is ever-present and active. One of the areas where they’re most prominent is the Matrix. I know, I know, “Humanis can’t deck” is a well-known meme, but they’re commonplace at the low- and middle-tier of the tech world, with enormous outpouring on social media and video games. If your kid has ever been on Virtual Shooter, for instance, they’ve heard endless racial slurs flowing out of other players and teammates and probably drop some of it into your house when they’re stressed. The number of hardcore gamers who casually toss slurs at their fellow gamers is just the way online gaming is, and since the practitioners accept it, there’s no real push to do anything about it. When some group starts to get upset about it, the social media side kicks in and you get hundreds of them lashing out at anyone who dares attack “gaming culture,” with death threats and more tossed around on the regular. More than one metarights activist has had their personal information leaked to the Matrix, their kids harassed at school, and Lone Star rapid-response teams called in to terrify the household when some Matrix troll reported that they were selling BTLs or doing other high-end crimes in the household. This so-called prank gets people hurt, but they’re good enough to hide from repercussion.
Keep in mind that while they keep their hands clean, they aren’t above hiring shadow talent. The advantage of having so many corporate contacts is that they can use a corporate Mr. Johnson as a proxy or drop a Ms. Smith in your lap to help their cause without you realizing it. (Of course, there are also a few runners who just work for them happily, but the less said about those guys, the better.) An Ares rep who wants to undercut a rival exec probably does it for a promotion, but maybe he just doesn’t like that the other subsidiary’s run by a dwarf. The Johnson who sends you after Evo certainly wants that cutting-edge bioware, but the fact that it harms a meta-friendly corp is a nice bonus.
The actual number of out loud and proud Humanis members is around one million dues-paying members in the UCAS. That’s already good-sized for a policlub, but the number of people who quietly support them is much, much higher. When you go worldwide, there are those who say a third of humanity aligns with their view to some degree, and around ten percent strongly. This means that they have reach like few other organizations. Anywhere you go, there’s someone thinking good things about the Humanis Policlub within twenty meters of you. The girl taking orders at McHughs? The guy in his car riding to work in a downtown office? The lady policing the park? The dwarf who fixes your armor and curls his lip whenever an ork walks into his shop? All nod along when they hear a Humanis talking point, keep the flatscreen at the shop turned to a channel that tells them what they want to hear, or make really uncomfortable arguments at Christmas dinner after they get a few drinks in them.
History
A couple of years ago, as an April Fool’s gag, the moderators on UCAS Online thought it’d be hilarious to combine the forums of the Humanis Policlub with the Karaoke Cowgirls fandom. Confusion erupted for a half hour or so until the Humanis guys figured out that a golden recruitment opportunity had fallen into their lap. Normally, KC is for young girls, but the latest season featured excellent animation, solid writing, and an amazing voice-actor cast, and it broke out to teenagers and even some adults. Many of those non-traditional fans were ostracized for liking a kid’s show. They felt unloved and wanted to be accepted, which made them prime recruiting material. The policlub snapped up a ton of personal data and, even after the forums got untangled, continued to recruit, forming a new pipeline for timid young men to fall into their hands, where they could be slowly molded into Humanis members.
Ever wonder why buses don’t go into well-off communities? Humanis knew that trolls, and many orks, have trouble fitting into cars, so they made sure to get buses made that could handle their size and at the same time made sure that bridges around certain communities were made low enough that the new buses couldn’t drive under them. Just like that, public transportation couldn’t go into certain neighborhoods, so goblins found themselves zoned out, even if nothing was on the books officially. One overlooked aspect is, I kid you not, school boards. Humanis members make a point of getting on as many school boards as possible to keep a simple status quo in effect: keep schools funded by property taxes on the area that particular school serves. This means that schools in well-off, human-centric suburbs get lots of funding due to the valuable homes there, while those schools in the meta-filled barrens get almost nothing, creating a sustainable loop of good jobs for the well-educated humans, poorly educated metas who can’t compete with them, and the ability to point to “failing public schools” as a way to divert more public funds from those schools to human kids.
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