The cameras do not watch you. They watch the space you happen to occupy. The distinction is important.
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 at the designated hour. They consume their allocated nutritional provision — a grey paste that the Bureau of Sustenance insists is "flavoured," though the specific flavour remains classified and all attempts by citizens to identify it have produced answers so varied that the Bureau concluded the paste tastes like whatever the citizen most needs it not to taste like. They commute to their assigned workplace via corridors that look identical in every district, a design choice the Bureau of Spatial Certainty calls "navigational equity" and the citizens call "getting lost every morning, but with dignity." Work in Velgarien is universal. Every citizen has a function. Some functions are comprehe...
From the lore of Velgarien.