In my grimdark classpunk setting, oppressed classes of people such as "frau" and "arbeiter" attempt to organize a social revolution but fail to realize that the ruling class has a form of dark illusory magic that disguises social processes as objective physical reality.

I've been thinking about world building a lot recently. My first thoughts did sort of run along these lines. Characters were definitely not a consideration

At least one book of Wheel of Time was created exactly like that, but i don't think author even got to the 2nd point there.