Its a "parallel universe".

And people aren't given a choice because slave traders keep entering the first universe and coercing everyone into the parallel universe or kidnapping those that don't want to go / cross over.

And the key to it's function is political parties and politics. Neither of these are government but people mistake them as government. The Democrats are not Government, nor are the Republicans. They are politics who have convinced people to hand over their right to of control of government to them. They all have superior allegiances than to the constitution and other institutions of government, or to the people. They then tell the government (trustee) what to do, and basically what they tell it is designed to benefit them and theirs at the cost of you and yours.

People need to realize that the political parties are all owned by someone.... they are not simply friendship groups. Someone owns them.

Until politics is removed from the process/situation the problems will persist. For this to happen, the people need to evolve into mature responsible people prepared to take on this responsibility themselves. I fear we still have a long way to go.... and we seem to be going backwards.