Basor Weengs grew up poor and didn’t realize it.  He lived in a dimension where material wealth was meaningless because money didn’t improve ones character.  If he was going to be good, he didn’t need to be paid to be good.  If he acted evil, no amount of money was going to change him.  So over the centuries of people trying to become richer than the next guy, the people finally realized it was a hopeless pursuit when compared with eternity.  A person could be worth more than anyone else in the world one day and the next he could be dead and in either Heaven or Hell where money didn’t exist. 

Basor shifted to Newgate and attended the seminary where most people either worked their way through school or they were given scholarships.  The endowment fund was invested well in various dimension and allowed the seminary to charge very little so that more students could attend without any financial hardships being inflicted upon them. 

Basor believed in hard work and that a person’s worth was not in how much they possessed physically but what character traits and abilities they had.  A person could have a million dollars in the bank and be worthless as a human being while a man could have as million dollars in debts and be considered a valuable asset to the human race. 

It seemed strange that Basor decided to shift to a dimension where nearly everyone was materialistic.  He was fortunate to marry a woman, Ronna Ungrang, who also came from a family that had little in the way of earthly possessions.  But growing up on a farm where self-sufficiency was vital made her realize money was meaningless except as something that was traded for something of importance.  No one could eat a $20 gold piece.  But they could eat the food a $20 gold piece could buy.

When Basor and Ronna married after they graduated in 1909 they shifted to the city of Joola Hway.  It was a massive city of over 60 million people with stratotowers that pierced the clouds, an automated integrated transportation system of underground and above ground vehicles, and a population that seemed too busy to slow down.  Even at night people were in a rush.