Those three themes I keep coming across:

Weird politics.

Weird plant-things.

Weird battles in which the aim is that nobody dies.

From what I’ve seen so far, they all seem to derive from the same three things, about relating:

How we relate with ourselves.

How we relate with others.

How we relate to the wider world.

And for the Commonwealth, all of those in turn seem to link back to just one thing:

A document called ‘An Agreement of the People’.

Which, I’ve just discovered, did exist in our timeline, as much as it did in theirs.

The difference is that in our world, we never got much further than talking about it.

But in their world, seems they put it into practice, as the core constitution for what would become the Commonwealth, right across the globe.

Which kind of suggests that that document might be more than a bit important?