The show acknowledges this detail in the post-credits scene of the finale. Gibson stretched this idea to a worldwide affair, where only a handful of people have the resources to survive the chain of apocalyptic events. It is believed that kleptocracy usually surfaces in developing nations where the rich get richer by exploiting the resources at hand, with no one to answer to. The klept are fundamentally postnational. This explains the Russian connection of the most notable klept in the show, Lev Zubov. Gibson, who has described klepts as “fundamentally postnational”, possibly based their identity in his novel on the Russian system that has often been regarded as a kleptocracy, especially under President Vladimir Putin’s rule, though the roots of this system go back to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The word “klept” means somewhere along the lines of stealing, which brings the whole thing of kleptocracy into context. It is a shortened form of the word kleptocracy, which is used to describe a system of a corrupt government that, in a simple manner of speaking, steals money from the public and uses it to strengthen its own power and standing. The term “klept” happens to be one of them. In writing the futuristic story of ‘The Peripheral’, William Gibson used a lot of things from the current world and created extrapolated versions of them to make the future a hopeless place.
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