Vox Populi

The Vox Populi, or "The Anarchists," are an underground resistance faction in Columbia that opposes The Founders' nationalist and xenophobic ideals. After the city-wide incident years before, the populace in Columbia began to split into two factions: the Founders, and the Vox Populi.

History
Led by Daisy Fitzroy, the Vox Populi first began as a protest group and a confederation of like-minded people, but as it became more organized its members grew more militant. The movement eventually abandoned its initial peaceful message in favor of retaliatory violence against the ultra-nationalist faction. They believe in communist ideals of everyone sharing everything, which eventually comes to mean that everything should belong to them. A member is heard shouting, "Your homes are ours! Your lives are ours! Your wives are ours! It all belongs to the Vox!" They appear to use the color red on their warpaint, sashes, and clothing, and even use the color to destroy anyone or anything related to the Founders.

Both the Vox Populi and its opponents are in conflict with each other for control of Columbia, which is literally tearing the city apart from the sky. Much like the Founders, the Vox Populi want Elizabeth for themselves, either for her gifted abilities for their own agenda, or to possibly kill her. Like many groups throughout history, "Vox Populi" soon fragmented into several splinter groups over various internal ideological differences. Ironically, these internal factions are often more devoted to destroying each other than uniting against their common enemy.

Trivia

 * Ken Levine stated in an interview with GameInformer magazine that the concept of the Vox Populi was partially inspired by history of the infamous 1970's German leftist group known as "Rote Armee Fraktion" (Red Army Faction) a.k.a. Baader-Meinhof Group.
 * "Vox Populi" in Latin means "Voice of the People".