Speaking of the Axiom and global scenarios, a better way to create a world of fatness without consequences is to have a post-scarcity world.
>a few good turns in the development of manufacturing technology, resource refinement, business and politics eventually led to humanity entering a world without hunger or disease
>of course, much of this development would be spent on fixing the environmental damage done to the planet, before humanity turned its collective gaze towards scientific discoveries - the depths of the oceans, and the stars...
>gene-editing is widespread, and, depending on the country, fairly unregulated
>this had led to the development of many radical subcultures, which, in turn, incurred the wrath of traditionalists, the religious, and just people who don't like seeing weird shit
>even after the end of scarcity, humanity still knows strife - a LOT of conflicts arose over what can be, and should be allowed to be edited
>but eventually, it was decided that - since all countries on Earth were now completely self-sufficient - the best way to avoid conflict was to avoid one another
>as such, countries that previously had extensive soft power influence suddenly found themselves isolated, left to spawn and corrupt
>it was surprising to precisely no-one that the greatest fat fetish gene-modding communities would arise from the United States... Though, there were a few others that emerged from surprising places, such as Africa and Arabia, where fatness could be seen as a status symbol, now that the associated health complications were either negated or reduced to manageable levels
>and so, even as a good chunk of humanity took to the stars, there was always at least a small, yet outsized chunk of it that preferred to wallow in their flab
