Extracting The Human Condition: Experiment 3:1A

After the bigger part of the third world abandoned Earth to colonise the Moon. AI led technology the "Mechnichs" are left on Earth with the populations of Africa and Asia. Russia and China divided the world for themselves in the most part but some unclaimed land was left for the Mechnichs to build a civilisation for themselves, but they can't live in piece with what is left of the humans in their territory and they want to understand them, more than than they understand themselves and they'll stop at nothing to learn about "The Human Condition."