All known strongholds were destroyed by various factions throughout the 23rd century. While the Enclave exercised control of a number of military bases scattered across the former continental United States, it is unclear how many strongholds or installations remain. The Enclave typically covered manpower problems by forcing wastelanders to work for them as conscripts, assets, or slaves, though it conferred no special benefits beyond immediate survival, as all were considered expendable mutants. By comparison, at that time the largest known city in the wasteland built from scratch, Shady Sands, was home to 3,000 citizens alone. Control Station Enclave, the largest known concentration of Enclave members in the wasteland, and is home to the main aspects of its central leadership, encompassed between a hundred and a thousand inhabitants by 2241. Relative to other human societies throughout the wasteland, the Enclave is among the smallest factions, but their exact strength is impossible to precisely gauge due to their clandestine nature. This mindset came to dominate the Enclave's ideology, culminating in an unsuccessful attempt at global genocide in the mid-23rd century. Its ideology evolved over the decades after the War, from rabid anti-communism in the immediate post-War era to pseudo-scientific racialism based in the conviction that its members were the sole representatives of unspoiled pure humanity, thanks to surviving the nuclear fallout in shielded facilities. It coalesced into a coherent entity after the Great War, complete with its own ideals and symbols, and in at least one instance, Enclave members turned on surviving government representatives who weren't involved with them immediately after the War. The founders of the Enclave operated as an informal secret cabal type organization of the same name, comprising members of the government and the military-industrial complex, rooted deep within the highest levels of government officials, military personnel, and corporate executives. To wastelanders who recognized it, it was a remnant of pre-War America. While the organization commonly styled itself as the Enclave, it used United States of America interchangeably, particularly in propaganda. This enigmatic alliance of private interests eventually subverted and developed from the continuity of government protocol to ensure its survival as the real America, laying claim to the North American mainland. The Enclave is a quasi-state originating in the pre-War United States federal government, military, and the corporate elite of entities.

That is to say, I am the voice, heart, and soul.

“ So, as your President, I am the voice, I am the heart and soul of the Enclave.

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