The Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks was a reality wide governing body which claimed
authority over all Ricks in every conceivable universe and dimension.
Unfathomably intelligent, yet prone to criminal tendencies and bouts of megalomania when drunk,
a few thousand Ricks first founded the Council to protect the Ricks of the Central Finite
Curve from their multitude of enemies across reality.
The Council operated from their headquarters known as the Citadel of Ricks, established
in a hidden pocket dimension to protect it from the galactic terrorists, sub-galactic
dictators and the Galactic Federation - which considered Rick’s genius a threat.
The Citadel also acted as an interdimensional meeting place with various shops and markets
dedicated to outfitting and accessorizing Ricks and their Mortys.
Over time the Citadel evolved into a full scale city-state with its own industries,
agriculture, economy, news services, and police force.
The Citadel’s primary purpose however, was to serve the highest members of the Council,
comprised of six of the most powerful and influential Ricks in existence.
Known as Rick Prime, Quantum Rick, Maximums Rickimus, Zeta Alpha Rick, and Ricktiminus
Sancheziminius these Ricks alone stood in judgement above all others.
Notable crimes punishable by the Council included operating an unregistered portal gun, radicalizing
a Summer, conspiring with a traitorous Rick, or the murder of Ricks in alternate dimensions.
To impose the will of the Council, a militia force comprised of various Ricks and Mortys
was garrisoned on the Citadel and tasked with tracking down and dealing with any potential
threats to Rick-kind.
An elite unit, known as Seal Team Rix, was activated whenever a dire threat to the council
was uncovered and sent on only the most dangerous missions.
In what would end up being their final mission, Seal Team Rix was ordered to prevent Council
Secrets from falling into the hands of the Galactic Federation by assassinating the captured
Rick C-137.
Considered dangerously irrational and passionate, C-137 had long been a thorn in the side of
the council having been previously charged, albeit falsely, with the deaths of dozens
of Ricks roughly 2 years earlier.
The mission to assassinate C-137 ended in disaster and the entire Citadel of Ricks was
transported directly into a Galactic Federation superprision.
Thousands of Ricks were killed as escaped prisoners rampaged through the facility, while
the Council itself was murdered at the hands of C-137, having impersonated Quantum Rick
during the confusion.
Following the death of the council and the destruction of much of the Citadel, a shadowy
cabal of Ricks who had secretly operated in the background established a new democratic
government, intending to elect a puppet ruler to serve their interests.
To the surprise of everyone on the Citadel however, the nominee of the Morty Party was
elected president.
This Morty rode a wave of support from Ricks who hadn’t been able to realize their full
potential within the Citadel and the systematically disenfranchised Morty underclass, many of
whom had been reduced to living in squalor.
These Mortys, concentrated in the slum known as Mortytown, had lost their Ricks and fallen
into a life of crime and gang violence.
Despite an assassination attempt, the new Morty President began instituting a series
of reforms; altering the curriculum given to Morty students and preventing them from
being assigned new Ricks, changing police departmental codes, and murdering much of
the secret Rick Cabal and anyone else who might suspect his true nature.
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