From: "Ellynne G." rilliara@juno.com To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se
or perhaps, despite the domes, they were dying off from radiation related ailments and then those radiation drugs were invented, saving them (although Radiation Therapy Day doesn't have a real ring to it).
Granted, it doesn't sound festive. But it sounds exactly like something the Federation would come up with.
Maybe they'd have Labour Day, celebrated by doing a double shift (without extra pay) at whatever one's employment actually is.
I should imagine celebrations in general would be grade-specific; for example the Deltas may hold an equivalent of a (non-religious) Yuletide celebration.
And who knows (I'm sorry, I can't resist this) - in the pre-Servalan days, maybe the President's balls were bigger every year!
Apologies
Wildean