Named for "Continuation of Government" orders, the Cogs are the descendants of the critical personnel evacuated to Cheyenne Mountain Complex and Denver International Airport.
The National Command Economy Order, by the mandate of the American wartime government's emergency powers, established a command economy that endured until present day. The Cogs, as critical personnel, were made exempt from the economy and that status endures today.
To Marxists, the Cogs have enacted a class-exclusive form of Bourgeois Marxism due to the elites' exemption from the economy, an intentionally permanent Vanguard of a revolution held in stasis.