| abstract | - Dolists were the poorest members of Havenite society. They were given a Basic Living Stipend, part of the Economic Bill of Rights, as a way to ensure social justice of a kind. Many believed that this removed any motivation to work and so accounted for the substantial number of Dolist whose parents had also been Dolists. The gerneral ineffectual structures of the People's Republic, such as its educational system, caused economic stagnation which contributed to unemployment and to the size of the Dolist segment of the population. The BLS was insufficient for a "middle class" lifestyle, resulting in widespread poor diet, poor health care, etc. Minimal cost housing was, not surprisingly, slum like, and Dolist sections of town were in effect ghettos. This was due to the poor maintenance and bureaucratic mismanagement of the housing, most of which was publicly owned. Politically, the Dolist population was important as it was a large voting block, and those who could control those votes had a certain amount of political power, even in the hereditary Legislaturalist government. Those who had mastered the skills required were commonly referred to as Dolist Managers. (HH1)
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