The Federal Catastrophe Response Company, also called FEDRA, is impressed b the real-life Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA), which coordinates the response to a catastrophe on U.S. soil. On the planet of “The Final of Us,” FEDRA coordinated the response to the Cordyceps mind an infection, but it surely shortly organized a coup, took management of the federal government and the army, and declared martial regulation. As we discovered in episode 3, FEDRA rounded up survivors throughout the nation and relocated them to Quarantine Zones within the main cities, which they managed like an authoritarian authorities. 

FEDRA has been a form of quiet and unseen villain all through “The Final of Us” thus far, with a lot of their horrors being largely implied. There was Ellie complaining about poor training underneath FEDRA, or Invoice joking in regards to the authorities being all nazis. However then there’s Joel telling how FEDRA would outright execute wholesome civilians if there was no room for them at a QZ, or Ellie saying that she discovered to shoot a gun from FEDRA colleges. 

Episode 5 makes issues worse. We study from Henry and Kathleen that FEDRA used to simply kill and rape individuals for many years in Kansas Metropolis. They’d residents inform on their neighbors and family members, resulting in their executions. After 20 years of hell, no marvel a resistance rose up, with Kathleen main a militia that took FEDRA down. 

And but, the episode additionally makes it clear that changing one dictatorship with one other isn’t good. Kathleen executes all collaborators, and even needs to kill 8-year-old Sam, due to the sins of his brother. This hits at a significant theme from the video games about abuse of energy, and the way all varieties of post-apocalyptic governments inevitably fall to violence and oppression.