Well, ok. This touches on a little bit about the difference between stage and background.

Take Space Opera of any kind, be it Star Wars or MechWarrior. The setting, as in the background, is more or less normal with regular folks doing regular things as is part of the in-game reality. The setting as stage is quite different tho. Only a handful of people really matter and their actions are blown out of proportions (in contrast to regular folks).
That might be because the use of high-level abstractions or because the focus is on the symbolic value of the action.
(In Star Wars, you can have 1,2,... 300 Rogue Ones and they still can't compare to Luke killing the Emperor)

Point being that I know that Max doesn't like the separation of the setting in stage and background, but that's what happens at most regular tables and should be acknowledged as such, simply because it is an reduction in complexity.