The Land of None

There was a land called None, it was a vast land with a great population. The people of None worked hard and diligently to survive, to make ends meet. Life was hard, some were able to save some money while others went without, others even turned to crime to survive. Others just lived in hopeless desperation. None had many regions, each with their own government. The people of None also had many different beliefs. Because of this there was much division in the land of None, many times even leading to wars, with much death and destruction.
To the north of the land of None was a great desert, impassible because of the immense heat of the day and the terrible sand storms. On the other side of this immense desert was the land of Plenty. The land of Plenty had great resources and immense wealth. To most of the people of the land of None it was a mere fable, something to wish for but never being able to reach. But there was a very small group of individuals who knew a passageway across the immense desert. They were called the Lords of Plenty. No one knows who first discovered this passageway for the information had been passed from generation to generation. Across this desert were 10 Oases a night's journey between each. Just to know that they existed was not enough, but one had to journey at night. To do so one needed to know the stars whose position changed with the seasons because they were used to guide one to the next oasis. One also needed to be able to decipher mirages, so as not to be subject to ones own illusions. With the proper information and the guidance of those who already had gone to the land of Plenty, one could make the journey.
The Lords of Plenty knew this and guarded this information, for their members took an oath not to reveal this information to the people of None. The Lords of Plenty accumulated great wealth and power in the land of None for without the resources that they provided, None would collapse. The Lords of Plenty seen themselves as special, elite, and they looked at the people of None as their subjects, to be used at their disposal for their own gain. Many of the members of the Lords of Plenty held high positions in many of the governments of the regions of None, this gave them at their disposal the armies of these regions. The Lords of Plenty were intoxicated by the power they held over the people of None and they continually searched for more ways to extend that grip they already had.
With many of their own in high government positions and using their wealth and control of resources to influence others, the Lords of Plenty were able to direct affairs in the land of None for their own gain at the expense of the people of None. Little did the people of None know that the land of Plenty had enough resources to make all the people of None to be wealthy, but they simply accepted their lot in life, trapped under the iron grip of the Lords of Plenty.
There was a small group of the Lords of Plenty that recognized the great suffering that this greed and lust for power was causing the people of None. This group was about 30 in number. They decided to break ranks with the Lords of Plenty and to establish an academy for the people of None. At this academy they would teach individuals from the land of None how to cross the desert to the land of Plenty. They would take them on that journey and teach them how to reach each of the oases, twelve steps in all, first the academy in None, then each of the oases, then the last, the land of Plenty. By doing this they would be able to break the iron grip of the Lords of Plenty and bring wealth to all the people of None. This group would not become part of the Lords of Plenty who were motivated by greed and the lust for power, but would be a group motivated by the desire for personal freedom and to share the wealth with the people of None. This would ultimately bring peace and prosperity to all of None. They realized that at first the numbers would be small, but these also would have the most to gain, but in time as the people of None seen the great value in the academy, the numbers would grow very rapidly. So they started the academy and as they had foreseen in time it brought great wealth, health, and happiness to the land of None.
The land of None is the world we live in today. The Lords of Plenty are the elite ruling class that basically control the flow of all vital resources. The land of Plenty is the human potential, the creative mind of the individual. The Global Information Network is the academy that will teach the individual to reach their human potential, to release that great resource that resides in their creative mind. The teachers are those that have applied these principles in their own life to accumulate great wealth, health, and happiness.