More like after such a crisis government doesn't have the resources to spread themselves over all societal needs and privatization ends up filling in the gaps. Centralized government is a late stage societal concept that requires certain material conditions and a certain development of the means of production, which the pandemic and ensuing breakdown of society has pretty well demolished.
They can either maintain the military to reclaim control after those means are rebuilt, or they can rebuild them themselves and leave their position vulnerable to insurrection.
There isn't really even a military right now. Not sure what's going on in other parts of the country, but the security ingame are remnants of the military, police, fire dept and other such organisations (plus new recruits when they can get them).
It's a porn game so I don't want to lore dump too much in the game, but a lot of people died (over 50%), including almost all older people. Government and other large organisation are almost entirely composed of older people, so of course all dead and leaderless. The game is set while people are still dying outside of the game town, so while Blaston managed to get a handle on the issue already, other places are still suffering. So much of the game world is still in the suffering phase and not in recovery.
Things may improve eventually, they may not. But right now, if you need something, you cannot rely on government or other traditional resources to get it.
No futa / returning to male is planned (AFAIK). The former Male Perk means that the player's body was male before the game starts, and after 2 (IIRC) weeks in game you're given the option of the starter perks the female start gets. A lot of the perks are fairly obvious to get, do a certain type of sex enough and you get the perk (I don't have a list of them). You can get exhibitionist if you go to the beach with Emile in the first week or so (you have to go naked). Drink too much alcohol and you get the alcoholic perk.
Yup, as people like to say on my discord. "The only penis Sammy is getting are ones that other people put in her"
I actually asked for the same thing in the game's Discord server and Sam Tail pretty much shot it down. Apparently they don't want to bother with depicting children so no childbirth scenes.
That said as someone who does enjoy pregnancy content I do have one suggestion: if you have the Broodmother origin or Baby Crazed perk make it so that the player either doesn't get traumatized or the trauma debuff is much shorter after giving birth. If someone is that into having babies I would assume their first thought after giving birth would be "Time to start working on the next one!".
And though I just said we're never going to see childbirth content, I'd still like to throw my own little idea out there: if you're close enough to a female NPC who's pregnant then you can offer to stay by their side as they give birth, thus giving us birth scenes for all of the female NPCs. Again I know it's not going to happen, especially considering how much extra work it would be, but man it would be awesome.
Correct. But to go into more detail for people who aren't on discord. Adding in children is a good way to find myself banned, childbirth scenes is not something I think I can draw and would also be very much a turn off for those who don't enjoy it. And when it comes to keeping/raising children, I have never seen a game do it in a way that was fun.
With that said, pregnancy stuff is still planned to be expanded in a more "soft" way. lactation, multiples and flavour events with Sammy and NPCs. Going with a friend when they give birth is also a good idea. Broodmother was added after the pregnancy system was added so would like to add something for that as well.
No, if you really want you can double check in the stat menu, if you have the male start perk then it just hasn't happened yet. If I remember right it's not based off of a timer like the post you responded to said, it's based off of some stat. Can't remember the name and I can't find the variable but once it hits 100 you lose the male start perk and get to choose an origin perk.
There is a hidden stat called "body_confidence" which when it reaches 100, it will trigger this event. You gain points through time, but also by gaining stats in fitness, int and confidence as well as having sex. If you play the game normally it seems to trigger after about 2 weeks, but if you time skip it will take a lot longer.
Depending on your choices during the prologue, you can start out in the negatives or almost at the 100 mark. Skipping the prologue starts you out at 0