system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Mad Max] The overwhelming majority of the Citadel's population lives in squalor without apparent access to food and only occasional, inefficient access to water. Surely all of them will soon die? Is this mass of peasants being sustained long term somehow? What purpose do they serve the Immortan?
gpt
You saw a ceremony; it's like asking why Marines in combat aren't wearing dress blues.

The Immortan is a master of political theater.  He wants his people to think of him as a god.  

Most of the people in the wasteland are survivor types, he has to break them down for them to become peasant farmers instead of fighters.

Once the Virgins give him enough sons, he will start breaking the other clans.