The social themes of Rogue Queen are subordinate to its love theme. "We once had a sect or cult on Terra called Communists, who believed as you do that love of the Community should take precedence over all other," says the character Winston Bloch to the main character Iroedh. "But their collectivistic love seemed to involve such fanatical hatred of everybody else and such implacable determination to impose their system on the world that we had to exterminate them." Iroedh's communistic society oppresses the spirit, fights pointless wars, condones murder for the sake of social stability, and has been in a cultural decline ever since an ancient queen established the dietary laws and the beehivelike social structure that requires citizens to love the Community above all else. As in Lest Darkness Fall (1941), Rogue Queen emphasizes the importance to social progress of the free spirit.