>type
Corporate bordello. (15, 30, 30)
>fear techniques
Low living standards, red tape bureaucracy (+5)
>pleasure techniques
Cultural anti-intellectualism, irrelevant media, pacifiers, reward system (-5)
>mind techniques
Paranoia, resilience, alienation, nothing really changes.
<<<<<bonus
+50 points distributed as: (0, 25-5, 25)
+15 spread as (15, 0 0) =======================(20, 20, 25)
Revisionism, propaganda (0, 20, 25)
Corrupted freedoms, compulsory consumerism (0, -5, 25)
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Hypercapitalist regime (20, 15, 25)
>fear
Conformity, surveillance
>pleasure
utopian bliss (+5)
>mind
cognitive dissonance, charismatic leader
As per our executive policy, it is mandatory for new citizens to know about the country to which they're being sent for work. The country you've been selected to fullfill your internship operates on the principles of individual freedom, as it is each adult's need to be able to take care of himsel--
DO NOT COME.
This distopia operates as an hypercapitalist shithole. The country is nothing but a loose confederation of many corporate city-states, held together only in name only. Corporate warfare is common. The police are there only to squish the worker. Unions are legal, but most are corporation-owned. The system is rigged so that you never get anywhere. It's the red queen race. The police are armed not with physical weapons, but with psychological warfare. They even use THC as riot control, for fuck's sake. Media is corporate owned, as usual, and as such, they act on their interests: to maintain this system. People feel alienated, but they don't do anything; even if they did, the system is already an anarchy enough as it is: other corporations and gangs would get a hold of the power. If not formally, in the loose sense that criminal empires tend to take. People live in squalor, except for the few oligarchs that own the multinationals. Propaganda aimed at the poor point the being poor as something to hold in regard, as something "truer to the self", but the conflicting message comes from that same media pointing at spiritualism as being "outdated and quaint". The lives of the poor are also squandered. If one person dies at the job, another can take its place, right? Working conditions are awful. And the worst part is that fighting against the state is a bad idea: the people WANT to go with the state, because it's best if everyone cares for himself, as this is the true way of guaranteeing personal freedoms, right? After all, the system lets them get drugged and play all the video games they want, consume all the media they could ever need. The message is dictated by the ones above us all. They glamorize being poor, since that way you don't desire for better conditions. They tell you "being poor is being resilient, rich people are wimps", and all the while the market for cocaine, heroin and weed grows and grows, having our children grow weaker and weaker. I've seen teenagers, TEENAGERS, already in full sexual maturity, who couldn't even multiply! And they aren't doing anything about the ecosystem: the weakened state hasn't done anything about the cyanide spill in our mining provinces, and they've found that there's lead in the water of the poorest parts of the capital city, for example. And people are alienated. The nuclear family idea has been "deconstructed" and "examined" by the mass media, taken apart, and then the whole thing has been remade: now the non-oligarchs have composite families, where there's either one single parent to the child, or they're composed of people going through their n-th marriage. Since corporations can now marry people, and operate their own civil unions, in the last few years a few companies have implemented mandatory marriages for their employees, some even not knowing they were married, or the other person, until it came in a PIP that they were being poor husbands or wives. After-work orgies are also common for the more qualified workers. After all, working should be fun, right? So you do a few after hours, work for your company without getting extra payment, and then you go to the orgy while speedballing and getting drunk. Sounds like a plan, right? A plan for every weekday, of every month, for the rest of your career. Which won't end with you quitting, because the company will share your negative review with others, so you will instead hope you get old enough to be let go, after having trained your replacement, and then either you die because of poor health in your 30s, after doing hard drugs and not being able to take it anymore, or you get hired for an even shittier job for half the pay you used to take. And that's if you're even marketable anymore, unless technology has picked up the pace enough for you to be a non-entity.