A dystopian world under total control. The regime reaches into every part of life – from the sciences to the street.
CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC MANDATORY ISSUING AUTHORITY: The Ministry of Information, Sub-Bureau of Ontological Compliance DATE: [Irrelevant – this directive has always been in effect] DISTRIBUTION: All citizens, all districts, all departments, all thoughts Citizens of Velgarien, You live in the only w...
WELCOME TO YOUR GOVERNMENT A pamphlet distributed at all Compliance Kiosks (reading is mandatory; comprehension is optional) Velgarien is administered by forty-seven Bureaux, each responsible for a precisely defined area of civic life, and each convinced that the other forty-six are either redundan...
FROM: Social Observation Report 4491-C PREPARED BY: Bureau of Public Harmony, Field Operations Division STATUS: Routine (classify if interesting) The daily life of a Velgarien citizen follows a pattern so consistent that Bureau analysts have begun to suspect it of being a natural law. Citizens wake...
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM – EYES ONLY FROM: Director Grau, Bureau of Historical Necessity TO: All Bureau 9 Personnel (Tiers 1 through 7; Tier 8 does not exist) RE: The Seventeenth Revision of the Founding Colleagues, The Founding of Velgarien has been revised sixteen times. Each revision was necessary. ...
INCIDENT REPORT – CLASSIFIED LEVEL 4 FILED BY: Inspector Venn, Bureau of Structural Integrity LOCATION: Residential Block 14, Sub-District Grey DATE: [Redacted – temporal inconsistency flagged by Bureau 22] STATUS: Under Investigation (Permanent) At 03:17 on the night in question, residents of Bloc...
DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: DOES NOT EXIST RECOVERED FROM: Sub-basement 4, Bureau 9, behind a wall that was not there yesterday CATALOGUED BY: [This field intentionally left blank] NOTE: This document predates the founding of Velgarien by an indeterminate period. Bureau 9 maintains that this is impossi...