《Ghostified City》Extra #1: Historical Notes on The City
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The City:
The story of Ghostified City begins in the year 144 AU (Anno Urbani). The whole inhabited human word had been urbanised long ago by then, somewhere around 2200 of the old dating system. All of the Urbanised Earth is collectively called ‘the City’, at least since the time WGOAP (World Government Of All People) took power. There is debate which year of the old dating system corresponds with the first year of the new dating system due to an Orwellian deletion of information during the transition, but it is thought that the year 1 AU (Anno Urbani) might be around 2290-2360 AD.
By the year 70 AU during the presidency of president Janala The City was collectively considered to be all there is. All information that was deemed relevant came from the official infoscreen-system which never mentioned anything outside or before the City. As the older generations had passed no-one ever bothered with or wondered about the possibility of an outside world anymore, although a ‘wall’ was sometimes whispered of (and certainly people lived close to it) but never at all mentioned on the media.
By that time no-one knew how to fit the old dating system with the AU system. Slowly all things before the year 1 AU and outside of the city were either completely forgotten or given a mythical otherworldly status.
President Emon:
President Inkoni Emon was democratically elected as the 11th president of the City in the year 112 AU. The term WGOAP was already abandoned by then. He abolished the other parties and reigned as a supreme autocrat with the support of the whole population, at least that is what the infoscreens said. Emon was a popular leader who held a lot of speeches, but what his actual deeds are a ruler were was never very clear.
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By 144 AU Emon was still officially the leader of the city, although the most recent broadcasts of his speeches on the infocreens were at last reruns from 10 year ago.
The Thanatorium:
The constitution of the City was built on the principle absolute freedom for all. This evidently included the right of self-determination over death and life for every individual. Because death was a basic right as much as life, the City provided facilities for cheap euthanasia that could be used by anyone who wanted to use their lawful right to ‘step out of existence’. The building for this was called a thanatorium.
This right also meant that no-one (not even the government of the City) had the right to actively take a live. Only suggestion could be legally used, not actual force, even for convicted murderers. (Coercion into stepping out of existence through various techniques of mind-control wasn’t described in the law though, and thus not explicitly forbidden.)
AC42:
AC42 is a type of anticonception that also protects against most venereal diseases, except for HIV and certain strains of syphilis. (Which were finally exterminated by rather drastic politics of quarantaine at the early WGOAP days, so that those risks had gone too) AC42 had been in use since somewhere in the 22th century of the old dating system, and replaced the older AC13 which had roughly the same effect, but more side effects.
It is taken orally once a month it protects the user (male or female) for at least a month, although it might work for half a year too. Every building in the light district had one or more AC42 vending machines, and the price of one dose was almost zero.
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