This is simply a list of more things in Pangea, and a continuation of the first part. To read what Pangea is, go to Part 1.
Table of contents
1: More cities and climates
2: Ideologies
3: Entertainment
4: Viewpoints
4.1: Solitude vs socialization
4.2: Democracy
4.3: Digital minimalism vs maximalism
4.4: Luna Hedonia
5: Physical objects
5.1: Technology
6: Thematic areas
7: Official truth aesthetics
8: Usurpation
9: Character archetypes/personalities
10: Fun facts about Pangea
11: Software
12: Cartoons
13: Conversations
Note: the temperatures listed are, respectively, the average high and average low of the specified month.
Visus deorum ex hominibus: a theology that claims that gods exist regardless of human beliefs, but reality itself has four spatial dimensions, and gods do not exist in all coordinates along the w-axis (the fourth dimension), but only in some, whereas humans, animals, plants and all physical objects are "stretched" and exist in all coordinates of the w-axis simultaneously. According to this view, people who believe in gods are simply looking at the coordinates in the w-axis where gods exist, whereas atheists are looking at the coordinates in the w-axis where gods do not exist. Both groups of people are equally correct, they're just looking at different places in the fourth spatial dimension. According to this view, gods are "thinner" than physical things in terms of space they occupy in the fourth dimension.
Depictions of divinity. Since in Pangea everything is modular (including, among other things, cartoons), you can watch a translated version of Family Guy into the Pangean language. In Family Guy, there are scenes where the god of Christianity (Yahweh) is mocked or satirized. Even though officially speaking, Christianity forbids iconography, in Family Guy Yahweh is depicted as "an old man in the sky", an image popularized by the painting "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Because of the modularity of everything, however, every scene of every cartoon, game, book, movie etc. is designed to be easily swappable with anything else. So, for instance, let's say you're a conservative Christian living in Pangea (either born there or an immigrant, it's irrelevant), and you think Family Guy is generally funny but you don't want to see Yahweh being mocked. You can definitely watch Family Guy in Pangean language without those scenes. There are many ways to achieve this, one of those ways is to have some sort of "settings". Since every scene of every media in Pangea is tagged (to ensure good categorization and customization), if in the settings you have specified to hide any scene mocking or even just depicting Yahweh, those scenes are automatically removed. It's like using "display:none" in a custom CSS stylesheets to hide specific classes, elements, attributes or ID's (which you can also do in Pangea, of course! You can also do that in Gaia with Firefox, of course. Credits where it's due). Furthermore, Pangean animators constantly create alternative scenes for every scene of every cartoon, game, book, media etc. so, for instance, if you hate Allah, you can choose to swap the scenes mocking Yahweh with scenes mocking Allah. Or, say, you think the Family Guy scenes aren't offensive enough, and you really hate Yahweh: there are definitely cartoons (in general, but even alternative versions/fan-fictions of Family Guy if you want to see those characters specifically) where the scenes are much harsher. In Pangea, there are Christian/Islamic cartoons, as well as cartoons that mock Christianity and Islam, as well as cartoons that are neither (and of course, the vast majority of cartoons are neither, since the first two examples are highly specific things). However, let's say that you are a misotheist who wants to watch cartoons mocking an idea of "God" that isn't depicted as "an old man in the sky". In Pangea, there are misotheists/satire cartoons for every possible depiction of God you can image. Note that "God" here refers to "God and/or the gods", for brevity. In Pangea, every theology exists: atheism, monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, pandeism, panendeism etc. it's not limited to just atheism and monotheism, there is media for everything. Anyway, here are the possible depictions of God (or the gods) you can find in Pangea media, either neutrally, honoring the divine, mocking the divine etc. anything:
1: Old man in the sky (Michelangelo's view)
2: Old man under the ground (chthonic god)
3: Old woman in the sky (if monotheistic, it's a form of goddess monotheism)
4: Old woman under the ground (chthonic goddess)
5-8: Same as the first four but replace "old" with "young" (how young can also vary, of course, it's Pangea we're talking about here!)
9: Non-binary human-like depiction, with various ages, with various positions (sky, underground, etc.)
10: Human-like depiction, with various ages, various genders, but in the forest rather than the sky or under the ground.
11: Same as above but under water (e.g. under the ocean or a lake).
12: Animal-like depiction. It can be any animal, of course, but here are some examples, as well as some possible motivations sometimes (of course, any motivation is found in Pangean media, these below are merely some examples):
12.1: Dog.
12.2: Cat.
12.3: Cow.
12.3.1: The deity is depicted as a cow because (in some media), the cow is symbolized as a giver of milk, and therefore like a mother, or some sort of goddess (or male god, or neutral god... whatever, it's Pangea).
12.4: Pig.
12.5: Chicken.
12.6: Owl.
12.7: Eagle.
12.7.1: The deity is depicted as an eagle because it's associated with extreme vision: it represents omniscience.
12.8: Penguin.
12.9: Deer.
12.10: Skunk.
12.10.1: The deity is depicted as a skunk because of its ability to alter the environment in an extreme way. The skunk represents a sort of "omnipotence" over reality.
12.11: Ant.
12.11.1: In some media, the deity is depicted as an ant because the ant colony seems to be its own entity, separate from the individual ant. Some pantheist media argues an ant colony represents God and the ant represents an individual object or person. Some media refuses to make a distinction between the ant and the ant colony, arguing that an ant colony is simply just a giant ant, in the same way as a human society is (in some media) considered as simply a giant human, known by different names, such as "Colossus", "Demos", or some other name.
12.12: Fish.
12.13: Shark.
12.14: Dolphin.
12.15: Parrot.
12.15.1: The deity is depicted as a parrot because a parrot can mimick human language, and sometimes even understand and use it properly (like in the case of Alex the Parrot in the United States), so the parrot represents the Logos, which some Pangean media considers divine (to be fair, everything in Pangea has some media considering it divine, even cannibalism or non-consensual mutilation, as well as pantheist media that considers everything to be divine, so the Logos is not unique in that characteristic).
12.16: Sheep.
12.17: Goat.
12.18: Fly.
12.19: Mosquito.
12.20: Worm.
12.21: Praying mantis.
12.22: Spider.
12.23: Lion.
12.23.1: The deity is depicted as a lion because the lion is an apex predator, which represents strength and dominance.
12.24: Bear.
12.25: Bee.
12.26: Zebra.
12.27: Giraffe.
12.28: Elephant.
12.29: Wolf.
12.30: Boar.
13: God is a giant, glowing sphere rotating on its axis.
13.1: And we're all inside of it.
13.1.1: And part of it.
13.1.2: Inside of it but not part of it.
13.2: And this sphere exists outside of the Universe's space-time continuum, it's more metaphysical.
14: God is depicted as a circle.
14.1: With a dot in the center.
14.2: Without a dot in the center.
15: God is depicted as a monstrous beast.
16: God is depicted as a tree.
17: God is depicted as a volcano.
18: God is depicted as food.
18.1: Bread.
18.2: Fruit/vegetables.
18.3: Legumes.
18.4: Cereals.
18.5: Meat.
18.6: Milk.
18.7: Eggs.
18.8: A futuristic sci-fi artificial food in form of a pill that you swallow and it gives you all nutrients based on what you currently need.
Other ideologies:
1: Logos worship. A religion that worships the Logos (the ability to think/speak with verbal language) as a deity. Other deities may or may not exist, so it can be monotheistic or henotheistic, but the Logos is the center of the worship. The media promoting this religion and the live speeches praise and express gratitude towards the ability to speak, mentioning the advance of human civilization, technology and comfort as clear gifts from the Logos. As usual, however, there is media in Pangea against this idea: some say that the ability to speak has nothing to do with divinity, and some say it's a bad thing to be able to speak, that non-human animals are superior and "uncorrupted" because they can't communicate verbally. Some media argues that the ability to speak is a curse inflicted upon humankind by an evil entity, in order to corrupt human souls. Likewise, since every idea in Pangea is modular, every idea can be inserted into any ideology/religion. As such, there are also some modular Christians/Muslims that say that the Logos is a curse inflicted by Satan (the adversary), and that true purity is only found in physical objects, plants, non-human animals, and non-verbal humans, and that the very rare cases of kids raised by wolves in the wilderness, who did not develop the ability to speak, are free from Satan's curse, and are therefore pure Christians/Muslims, and that the entire humankind should become like that. Of course, by definition, the Logos worshippers reject the idea that the ability to speak is evil or a curse. Instead, they view it as a gift from a deity, or a deity itself, or the main deity, or the only deity that exists etc.
2: Thermoracism. A form of either discrimination and/or superiority (the two are somewhat related but not the same thing) based on the temperatures of either someone's place of birth or residency (different forms of thermoracism have different characteristics, as expected in Pangea). Any temperature pattern can be considered "superior" or "inferior": cold climates, hot climates, stable climates, continental climates etc. nothing is spared from being "superior" or "inferior". Another form of superiority/discrimination, apart from thermoracism, is altitude-based superiority/discrimination. Some media in Pangea claim that people coming from very high elevations are "superior", whereas others claim the opposite: that people living at sea level are the most "superior" or "natural" (in a good way) ones.
3: Natural disasters are the revenge of the ghosts of the people who were mistreated during their lives.
4: Multiculturalism provides safety from the High Archons. This idea is based on Metanomism (check Part 1, Section 12.23 to learn more), where High Archons are said to be entities such as, if too many people believe in them/worship them (the exact details depend on the interpretation, as usual), those entities will gain sufficient power to rule over humans without any human intermediary. High Archons differ from Middle Archons such as Yahweh or Allah (the deities from Christianity and Islam respectively), because Middle Archons only rule through human intermediaries: in Islamic countries, it's humans who kill gay people, not Allah himself. Some Pangean media claims, however, that Middle Archons can become High Archons if too many people believe/worship them, and therefore, multiculturalism serves as a safety mechanism against giving too much power to Archons. Some other media, however, claims that Middle Archons can never become high Archons, and that even if everyone on Earth was Muslim, Allah would still be unable to rule directly. Some other media says it's true that Middle Archons can become High Archons, but that it's a good thing if they do, because then the Archon can rule directly (which is a good thing according to some media), and therefore monoculturalism should be promoted for that reason. If the Archon wants to exterminate the entire human species, then that means humankind deserved that, according to some media.
5: Digital minimalism/maximalism. Digital minimalism says that one should use technology (especially computers, laptops etc.) as less as possible, whereas digital maximalism says the opposite, that one should use technology as much as possible. It's not a binary thing, but more like a spectrum. The most extreme digital minimalist media says that one should never use the Internet, whereas the most extreme digital maximalists say that one should be using the Internet as much as possible, the entire free time, even while asleep (some media says that there are "benefits" in listening to music or podcasts with earphones while asleep).
6: Chromatic purity religions complaining about schools. For instance, media that says that the only color allowed for a pen is blue, and complaining and expressing shock and outrage at the fact that schools even allow pens of other colors to be used. They say something like "how dare some filthy humans to violate divine laws so shamelessly? Who do they think they are? They think they have authority, but only God (or the gods, depending on the media) has authority, and the law is clear: ink to write should exclusively be blue! Shame on our country for allowing such evil, the kids going at schools all over our country are being corrupted, their souls are being destroyed by non-blue pens. We shouldn't tolerate this. Resist evil!". This is merely one example, though, chromatic purity religions can say all sorts of stuff about the "correct" use of colors.
7: Seek and Destroy. An ideology that says foreign countries do things better than Pangea because they do something called "Seek and Destroy", that is, seeking for certain categories of people, which vary by country but can be gay people, dissidents, National Socialits ("Nazis"), people who sell cannabis, sex workers, atheists, polytheists, Christians, Muslims, Falun Gong, Milah Abraham, fascists, Satanists etc. and then destroying those people, their job and their organization. This ideology says that "Seek and Destroy" is a great thing to do, and that the Pangean government is "oppressive" for not letting people do the same thing, and this ideology says that the Pangean government is too focused on creation and "addition" (adding options) instead of destruction and "subtraction" (removing options), and that foreign countries understand the importance of destruction much better than Pangea does. A theistic follower of "Seek and Destroy" may (or may not) worship a deity of destruction, or follow an anti-cosmic theology.
8: An ideology that says that foreign countries are ruled by "usurpers" who have taken over those lands, whereas only Pangea has the "true laws". There is media that warns that if one lets certain groups to take over the laws, "Pangea will become like those countries". There is also media that says foreign countries are much better than Pangea and that therefore, it would be a good thing if usurpers rose to power and destroyed the current Pangean system. Other media says "it'd be good if usurpers rose to power but there'd still be problems, it wouldn't be perfect by far", other media says "it'd be bad if usurpers rose to powers but it wouldn't be a tragedy: people adapt!", and other media who express total indifference to either outcome. Other media says that it's not true that "usurpers" have taken over other countries, they say that "each country simply has their own laws, that's it". The official truth does not comment on who is right here, as it's merely a matter of abstract interpretation.
9: An ideology that says one's thoughts should be as deep and complex as possible but then, when communicating with other people, those complex thoughts must be "translated" into a simple sentence or explanation while trying to preserve, as much as possible, at least the essential part of the original meaning of that thought, even though much will get "lost in translation".
10: A text, targeted at people living above around 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) above sea level, saying something like "Are you feeling out of breath after just a few minutes of biking? This is NOT normal! This happens because you live at a very high elevation. Your city is lying to you, making it seems normal to be out of breath so quickly, but it only seems normal to you because it's the life you always lived and you could never compare it to anything else! If you went to sea level, you'd be able to bike and exercize much harder, better, faster, stronger! You'll feel so energic and you can say goodbye to any headache! Reject your city's lies, embrace the oxygen: travel to sea level and you'll feel like a superhero!".
11: A text, targeted at people living at sea level who want "motivation" or a "challenge" or something, saying something like "Do you feel like your life is too easy and pointless? Do you want a real challenge? A real struggle? Travel to a city above 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) above sea level! The lower oxygen will make physical exercize more difficult, just what you need to feel really proud of yourself! Go visit our gym in [name of the high altitude city], and prove your strength to the world! Are you brave enough to take the challenge?".
12: Wiccan Theocracy. More details may be coming one day.
13: Athermism: the belief that temperature scales don't exist.
14: Monothermism: the belief that only one temperature scale exists. Which one varies depending on the monothermist ideology.
15: Antithermism: opposition against temperature scales: temperatures should NEVER be measured, for any reason! Thermometers must be banned, and possession of thermometers must be punished. The more moderate antithermists suggest jail for the possession of thermometers, whereas the extremists suggest capital punishment. Weather channels are allowed if and only if they don't report temperatures and don't say "warm" or "cold": they can only say if it's sunny, rainy, snowy, windy, foggy etc. but they are forbidden from telling the temperature. In Pangea, there are in fact antithermist or antithermism-compliant weather channels (a huge amount of them with different aesthetics and such, but of course, there is also a huge amount of non-antithermism compliant weather channels with different aesthetics, obviously lol, pretty much everything in Pangea is available with a huge amount of different aesthetics), where they report on the weather but without telling the temperature, neither the number nor using words like "hot", "warm" or "cold". There is also media that complains about the existence of weather channels that displays temperature and calls for its ban. Some thermist media, on the other hand, rejects the idea of banning temperature scales and mentions of cold and heat, citing "thermic freedom" as a right so fundamental that "even most foreign countries, with the sole exception of Sudhurland, allow mentions of temperatures. Even the most tyrannical governments in the world allow temperature to be measured and mentioned. Even Pakistan and North Korea have weather channels that freely mention temperatures without shame or persecution. If even those brutal tyrannies allow temperatures, why shouldn't we? Thermic freedom is a fundamental, universally recognized right, and taking it away from people would be devastating.". In Pangea, literally everything is a matter of debate: for everything you can imagine, there is media of people debating it. Some (not all, of course) antithermist media claims that thermists "want to stick a thermometer up other people's asses without their consent, they're disgusting, that's why thermometers and mentions of temperatures must be banned!". As expected, responses to that claim vary within Pangean media.
16: Henothermism: the belief that multiple temperature scales exist but only one should be used. This approach is in some sense common in Gaia, as most countries use Celsius, whereas the USA uses Fahrenheit. Some versions of henothermism say that multiple temperature scales exist but only one is the true one.
17: Polythermism: the belief that multiple temperature scales exist.
18: Panthermism: the belief that everything has a temperature, and therefore its temperature can be measured. Love, death, abstract concepts, mathematics, geometrical figures, emotions, ideologies etc. also have a temperature that can be measured, according to panthermism.
19: Misothermism: hatred towards temperature scales.
20: Dysthermism: the belief that temperature scales are evil.
21: The polyanthroi. These are entities that correspond to groups of people. An example of a polyanthros is Demos, the collective of an entire society. Democracy, in this view, is a theocracy, the rule of Demos. Other than Demos, there are also other groups, that can correspond to cultures, ideologies, fandoms etc. some media says that polyanthroi always existed and will always exist, and that when humans form groups, the corresponding polyanthros simply absorbs all the humans in those groups into itself, temporarily (or permanently, in some more extreme cases) erasing individuality. Other media says that the polyanthroi form in the moment human groups form, and cease to exist when the group disbands (e.g. according to those latter media, the polyanthros associated with the ancient Roman senate no longer exists). Some media says it's a good thing to be absorbed by a polyanthros, some media says it's a bad thing, some say it has pros and cons, and some says it's an in-between. If one wants to avoid/seek (depending on the media) being absorbed by a polyanthros, one should avoid/seek identifying with a group, ethnicity, a fandom, or an ideology (religious, political, philosophical, artistic, a mix etc. it doesn't matter) and not only that, but also identifying with the set of all people belonging to the group.
1: Regarding Halloween in Pangea. It's not illegal in Pangea to knock on random people's doors to do "trick or treat", but it's generally discouraged, and also, only an [UNDEFINED] percent of the Pangean population celebrates Halloween, so knocking on random people's doors is not what is generally done. Instead, in order to celebrate Halloween in Pangea, there a few interesting workarounds. In Pangea, one can go to an information center and request their house to be added to a database of "Halloween celebrators" (and of course, they can remove their house from that list at any moment, too). That list is publicly accessible, so that people who want to go knock on people's doors for Halloween can go to an information center, request that list and then go to such houses. That is an interaction between matchers. However, there are also Halloween streets: thematic areas with Halloween decorations and aesthetics everywhere, and where people go in costumes and knock on the doors of specific buildings (they're not actually houses, but they look like houses) where workers go to give candies to the people who knock there. Yes, that's their entire gamma. Furthermore, because free time gives people the sensorial experience they want, any festivity can be celebrate in any date in Pangea. There are also Christmas streets etc. these kinds of thematic areas are always decorated like that, so one can celebrate Christmas in April and Halloween in August, but outside of the correct dates, there are very few to none customers, so the only people are a few workers who remain even outside of the correct dates just to give a guarantee of being able to experience the festivity in any day. So the atmosphere may be a little more, "lonely", due to there being much less people organically, but the workers nonetheless still try to create the original atmosphere in order to please the customers who request the festivity outside of the correct dates.
2: If you want to be at a metal concert but don't like mosh-pits, there are always "still areas" somewhere in the crowd area, so you can listen to the metal music live without having to participate in the mosh pit. Of course, there are always also areas for mosh pits, in case you want to participate in one.
3: You can pay to watch someone (either a worker or someone in their free time, but the worker is guaranteed to exist) spray paint a wall. If you have no talent to create graffiti and you don't just want to see the graffiti already done, you can pay to see the process. Of course, said walls exist specifically to be spray painted, either by customers who want to spray paint a wall, or by workers whose gamma is to spray paint walls, either to be watched while doing it, or just provide some portions of the city (thematic areas) with a graffiti aesthetics. Spray painting a wall that is not made specifically for this purpose is vandalism and it's illegal in Pangea.
4: A luna park with various attractions. You can buy pop corn and cotton candy outdoors and indoors, and some attractions are about illusionist tricks. You can also pay for quick courses of basic illusionist tricks at the luna park, although illusionist tricks are also a subject at school, but if you're an adult and didn't learn them at school because you were too busy with other subjects, you can always learn them elsewhere, including (but not limited to) at the luna park. There are also roller coasters, "haunted houses", amusement rides, bumber cars, carnival shooting games and much more!
5: There are thematic areas (in pretty much every city... Pangean cities are pretty much more or less all the same, mostly what changes is the climate and therefore the vegetation) with chrome grey, semi-reflective surfaces, both on the ground, buildings, streetlights and outdoor benches, that give a specific type of futuristic/sci-fi aesthetics. You can also pay for actors to give a public speech (within the thematic area) regarding some sort of fictional sci-fi event that one is roleplaying, or alternatively, a speech about a real event but dressed in sci-fi terminology. There are workers whose gamma (job) is specifically "sci-fi social interactions/roleplay within sci-fi thematic areas". Of course, since the gamma has low variation, different types of sci-fi social interactions are handled by different sci-fi workers. For instance, there are also sci-fi sex workers, where you get sexual services from people (girls, guys, non-binary, whatever you want...) dressed in sci-fi clothings and can give you whatever sci-fi scenario you want. For instance, you can request a roleplay where in a futuristic sci-fi society, human population is low, and you were called to repopulate the Earth. Of course, it's fictional, and it's illegal to get a worker pregnant in Pangea, because pregnancy symptoms carry on during free time as well, and also, because pregnancy means that in nine months, she will give birth. Since giving birth is not a job, it would happen during free time, but it would happen because of something that occurred during work time, so it's illegal in Pangea. However, as long as you wear a condom, having sex with a worker is totally legal in Pangea! Another sci-fi sex scenario you can request is that you two are doing it secretly, because the sci-fi futuristic society is dystopian and anti-sexuality. But then again, you can request literally any scenario. Even if the scenario involves someone getting hurt, you can still request it, but of course the people "getting hurt" are just pretending to, it's just like watching a movie but in real life. Again, since the gamma (job role) is narrow, the "normal" sci-fi social interaction workers won't have sex with you, the sci-fi sex workers won't do sci-fi outdoor speeches, and so on. Each worker does their own thing. In the sci-fi thematic areas, just like in all thematic areas, there are also "normal" services, like cinemas, restaurants etc. but of course they have a sci-fi aesthetics even indoors, at least in the side of the building that faces the thematic area. The other side of the building (which you don't see directly if you're in the sci-fi part, since it's behind a door) likely faces the Tranzit and has a standard aesthetics.
6: A park/garden full of flowers, and where on the ground and walls there are hearts and cute drawings, and everything is colorful. You can also buy helium balloons. But to be fair, you can buy helium balloons literally in every aesthetics. Things are modular in Pangea, so a specific activity is not limited by aesthetics. You can buy helium balloons in thematic areas that look like a radioactive fallout post-apocalyptic zone (and those thematic areas of course do exist in Pangea!).
7: In Pangea, in order to be 100% sure that you don't see what you don't want to see in a supermarket, you can simply request items, then you return the next day (or even a few hours later, depending on the queue and various things) and a worker (some sort of cashier but not exactly) will give you what you requested in a bag. You pay for those items as well as a very small extra for that worker's job, you take those items and leave, without ever having to see something you don't want to see. The bag can be given to you either directly at your home or you go to a specific part of that supermarket. The supermarket itself offers the service.
8: In Pangea, if one believes to be (or is, I'd rather stay neutral about these things) living in a haunted house, one can call "ghostbusters", who will remove the ghosts from that person's house. The official truth is silent about whether such things are "real" or not, and there are several researchers in Pangea researching about ghosts and the paranormal in general, hoping to find any information to prove or disprove it. Only then will the official truth speak about it. At most, the official truth just says "research in progress".
9: Shopping cart rides. You can sit inside a shopping cart and then pay a worker (whose specific gamma is that) to drive you around specifically built "shopping cart tracks", either indoors or outdoors, depending on your preferences and the weather. It can be a fun and silly experience.
10: You can see construction workers building buildings with a crane. You don't have to pay for that, you can just stare and watch.
11: A cartoon about a kid (and since Pangean media is modular, the kid's name or hell, even the gender, varies depending on the version!) living in Tubiv, 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) above sea level. He's fascinated by illusionist tricks and often pays (with the money he earns at school) to go to a circus/luna park where an illusionist plays his tricks. He's so fascinated by that and he also pays to learn about those tricks. The illusionist tricks teacher (a different person from the illusionist, which only plays tricks in front of an audience rather than teaching it, but this teacher works also in the same circus/luna park) chuckles and says "kid, are you sure you want to learn them? It won't feel the same anymore once you do". The kid insists, pays the teacher and then the teacher teaches illusionist tricks to the kid. He spends the vast majority of his free time in this circus/luna park. Other than watching and learning illusionist tricks, he also goes to amusement rides, plays carnival shooting games, and other circus/luna park related things. So, his life is mostly school + circus/luna park. Something he also does in his free time sometimes is to ride a bycicle to go visit her aunt and uncle. It's about 5 minutes of bicycle ride away, but he feels out of breath when he arrives. He thinks that is perfectly normal, but one day, the geography teacher casually mentioned that at sea level there's more oxygen, and that physical activity is easier there. The kid wanted to learn more, so he went to a library, asked a book about the topic to the librarian, and one of the first pages had an travel ad, saying: "Are you feeling out of breath after just a few minutes of biking? This is NOT normal! This happens because you live at a very high elevation. Your city is lying to you, making it seems normal to be out of breath so quickly, but it only seems normal to you because it's the life you always lived and you could never compare it to anything else! If you went to sea level, you'd be able to bike and exercize much harder, better, faster, stronger! You'll feel so energic and you can say goodbye to any headache! Reject your city's lies, embrace the oxygen: travel to sea level and you'll feel like a superhero!". The kid checked the official truth, and it confirmed that tone aside, the information itself is true: at sea level there is more oxygen, so it takes much longer to feel out of breath there. The kid asked his parents for a trip to Vinur but they said they didn't have enough money for that. So, when the kid turned 18, at his last year of high school, during the winter school holidays he went to Vinur by plane. When he landed there, the air was relatively warm: Vinur's winters are like early spring in Tubiv. When he breathed the air at sea level, he felt like his lungs were flooded with oxygen, he did feel very energic! 'That text was right!', he thought, happily, and he bought a bike at a store and tried biking in Vinur: he could bike much longer, much faster, much better, and it took him way, way longer to feel out of breath! He thought 'wow, people living at sea level are lucky! The air is so amazing here!'. He stayed in Vinur for a few days, sleeping at a hotel, and then he returned to Tubiv. When he returned to Tubiv, he got a mild headache (due to the altitude) and thought 'my entire life was a lie... this feeling is not normal... it's the altitude... so much potential wasted...' and the story, typical of Pangea, either ends there or doesn't, depending on the version. In Pangea, an ending in a story is never necessarily an ending, as for every story, there is media that continues it, in every possible way. For example, in Pangea, there is media telling stories of Little Red Riding Hood where wolves get their revenge and brutally kill her (the protagonist). Or any other continuation you can imagine.
12: In Pangea, there are songs, in any genre imaginable, whose lyrics are basically the text of school subjects. These songs exist, well, first of all because of the alpha (the sensorial experience of a customer must be as close as possible to their wishes, if they pay for it), but these songs are also very useful because people remember song lyrics very well, since they listen to the songs multiple times, so these songs help students remember things better for the tests. Of course, because of the alpha, there are many of these types of songs that contain false information, so one has to check for the "official truth: approved" symbol on the CD or the digital website, once you've checked it, you'll be able to remember school subjects texts much better. Since everyone has different musical preferences, these songs are in any genre imaginable: pop, rock, punk, emo, metal, swing, 1950's pop, gangsta rap, techno, crunkcore, bubblegum pop, tribal folk music, opera, trap, reggae, reggaeton, industrial etc. anything, really. It's kinda like the song "Alexander the Great" by Iron Maiden but much better, much more detailed, and in any genre you can imagine, and for literally every subject (history, geography, biology, philosophy, psychology, agriculture, plumbing... anything, really!).
13: In Pangea, there are buses with massage chairs that you can turn on by inserting a coin in it.
Which is better?
1: Solitude.
1.1: Because solitude is the true, "ancient" state of humans. Socializing, especially (but not only) in huge, modern cities, is unnatural (and therefore bad).
1.1.1: Language is unnatural and therefore bad.
1.1.2: Language is ok, you learn it from your parents and some other people while you're very young, but once you learn how to speak, use it to think to yourself and observe, and interact as less as possible with other people. Socializing is only good as a very young person, to learn how to speak. Once you learn language (which is the only reason you should socialize), stop interacting with other people, unless it's absolutely necessary.
1.2: Because ideas are contagious, and so if you interact with people too much, the folly of the masses will infect you.
1.2.1: Interacting with people who either agree with you or who have "intelligent" beliefs/way of thinking is ok/good, because those people are not infected with the folly of the masses, so they can't infect you.
1.2.2: Even interacting with people who have "intelligent" belief/way of thinking is bad, because if you do interact with them, you're offloading your critical thinking skills to those people, so while you may get infected with their beliefs (which is not necessarily a bad thing), all the thinking required to arrive at those beliefs will be absent in your mind, which will cause intellectual atrophy. So, stay alone as much as possible.
1.3: Because socialization puts you at risk of developing an addiction to affection, leaving you vulnerable to emotional manipulation through "friendship withdrawal", e.g. "if you don't do X, I won't be your friend anymore". Solitude is a way to prevent this addiction from forming in the first place.
1.4: The idea that "humans are social animals" is false, and it's just a distortion caused by urban, sedentary lifestyles, and does not reflect humans' true nature. Not only the idea that "humans are social animals" is false, but it also causes a nocebo effect, making one feel bad for being alone, but the bad feeling is only caused by the belief that solitude is harmful.
2: Socialization.
2.1: Only with matchers.
2.2: Only with professional friends.
2.3: With matchers it's better but with professional friends it's also ok.
2.4: With professional friends it's better but with matchers it's also ok.
2.5: Either is fine.
2.6: Only with a specific type of people, those that you like. Being alone is better than socializing with people you don't like.
2.7: Socializing with people you don't like is still better than being alone.
3: A mix of both.
4: Neither is "better", each choice has different characteristics, which may have pros and cons.
Aesthetics of solitude and socialization.
Aesthetics of solitude (voluntary):
1: An aesthetics of solitude that is vaguely "religious Eastern Asian", e.g. a Buddhist monk retreating in solitude.
2: Mountain hermit.
3: Forest hermit.
3.1: Subarctic forest (e.g. Alaska, Siberia) hermit, living in a hut and hunting to survive.
3.2: Tropical rainforest hermit.
3.3: Temperate forest hermit.
4: Savannah hermit.
5: Solitary witch who lives in the outskirts of a city, maybe in some strange forest or isolated area, away from other houses.
5.1: She rejects all social interactions.
5.1.1: And silently observes the city from afar.
5.1.2: She does not observe other people, preferring her house, the plants and her forest.
5.2: She never seeks social interaction but accepts it if someone needs advice from her specifically. She's solitary but helpful if one asks for her help.
6: Stereotypical modern "Stoic/philosopher" who rejects all social interaction in pursuit of knowledge and philosophy.
7: Solitary scientist.
8: Solitary "book worm".
9: Solitary mad scientist who experiments with crazy stuff.
10: Anime/videogame nerd who finds anime and videogames much more enjoyable than talking to people.
10.1: With some exceptions, that is, some people may be interesting enough to talk to, especially if they share common interests.
10.2: With no exceptions. Refuses all social interaction.
11: Desert hermit.
Aesthetics of socialization:
1: Strongly identitarian groups with strict rules (and intentionally difficult to follow) created with the purpose of demarcating between "us" and "them". Some examples in Gaia are Christianity (with the exception of some unorthodox forms of Christianity that follow Jesus but not Yahweh, not necessarily Gnostic though, just Jesus-followers), Islam, Confucianism, Scientology, Judaism etc. but of course, in Pangea there are such groups (or at least, you can buy actors who'll simulate such group if no "organic" community exists) for literally everything you can think of. For instances, there are groups (real or acted, or depicted in media... "real" is the only option not guaranteed but acted and depicted in media are guaranteed) that are strict vegans but also don't eat foods with green color (e.g. broccoli, green apples, pears, spinach etc.) because green is a "dirty" color and corrupts one's soul, they go to sleep naked, and only wash their teeth using a lemon-flavored toothpaste, because "the lack of lemon flavor in the toothpaste curses one's home with evil energies". If one disobeys to their rules, they are considered a "them", and therefore a really, really bad person. Since in Pangea during free time you can mostly do what you want (sort of), some people may crave arbitrary rules to follow, and not only that, they may crave the idea that, because they follow those arbitrary rules, they are "part of a group". They are "us", not "them". This is one form of social interaction, and of course, it can have varying aesthetics as well. For instance, such group described earlier can have a steampunk aesthetics, even if the rules themselves or the reasons given for those rules have nothing to do with steampunk whatsoever. It's purely aesthetics for aesthetics' sake. Any group/ideology can have any aesthetics in Pangea.
2: Barbie-like social groups that paints their nails, discuss about clothings, bags, attractive guys and go eat cakes or drink tea with friends.
3: Occult-like (or with occult aesthetics), "philosophers" group that claims to be "part of the few" that "understand how the world works". They discuss philosophy and fringe ideas, but can talk about other things if they get bored of philosophy.
More coming soon.
Coming soon, but for now...
Is democracy good?
1: Yes.
1.1: It's "the will of the people", and enforcing it is good.
1.1.1: The will of the people is the will of God, and enforcing it is good. In order to find out what God wants, one must find out what the people want. It's exactly the same thing.
1.1.1.1: "The people", understood as a collective whole, is God.
1.1.1.2: "The people" is not God, but the two wills are the same, either in identity or content, depending on the interpretation, so it remains true that to find out the will of God, one must find out what is the will of the people.
1.2: It's not perfect or inherently "fair", in fact, it may have serious flaws, but it's better than any other system, so it's "good" through comparison.
2: No.
2.1: It's the tyranny of the majority.
2.2: Democracy is bad for the same reason you shouldn't let the passengers of an airplane make decision about how the airplane should be driven. Some people are experts in a certain field (like politicians are experts are politics), and they should be the ones making decisions in that field, not the ignorant masses.
2.3: Democracy inevitably leads to demagogy: politicians saying whatever dumb stuff that the masses want to hear in order to gain votes. So, it's not the best at leading a society that gets voted, but the best at psychological manipulation and propaganda. This is why democracy inevitably leads to massive propaganda campaigns.
3: More nuanced/mixed opinion.
4: Democracy itself is good, it's just the way it's implemented in the world that is flawed. Proposed alternatives:
4.1: Direct democracy: people voting on each issue individually instead of voting a representative with whom one only partially agrees.
4.2: Democracy LARPing (like they do in Pangea) is better than democracy as implemented in some Gaian countries. Democracy LARPing is the truest form of democracy, because everyone's vote counts (within one's free time)!
4.3: Representative democracy is ok, it's the counting that's flawed. One should be able to vote for more than one candidate/political party, and whoever gets the most votes, wins. This prevents the reasoning of "I really want to vote this party, but if I do, it's one less vote for the 'evil but not as evil as the other' party, and the other 'more evil' party will win!".
4.3.1: Preferential voting.
4.3.2: Voting of multiple candidates/party, but each vote has equal weight. It remains the case that whoever has more votes wins.
Does democracy actually exist anywhere in the world (Kora + Gaia)?
1: Yes. Where?
1.1: Broad answer: the USA, most of Europe, but Russia and North Korea are also democracies, since citizens vote.
1.2: More restricted answer: the USA, most of Europe, maybe Russia but definitely not North Korea, since elections there are a sham.
1.3: The USA, most of Europe, definitely not Russia nor North Korea.
1.4: Most of Europe, but definitely not the USA, Russia nor North Korea. The reason why the USA is excluded from being a democracy in this view is because it's de-facto a two-party system. While it's technically possible to vote for another political party, in practice, no other political party has ever won the presidential elections since the 1850's. This makes the USA "democracy" a sham, just like North Korea, with no real choice for the citizens.
1.5: Only Pangea has democracy, because every person can make choices for their own free time, actually maximizing "the will of the people". No other country does that, since many people don't live their lives as they want, and so "the will of the people" is very low in other countries, even during their free time, making them "non-democracies".
2: No.
2.1: The only true democracy is direct democracy. For example, the majority of people in the USA support the legalization of cannabis, and yet most states make it illegal. Therefore, the USA is not a democracy. The same reasoning goes for every country in the world, including Pangea.
3: Something vaguely similar to democracy exists but not exactly.
3.1: Representative democracy is something vaguely similar to true democracy (direct democracy), but it's not exactly the same.
3.2: "Democracy" exists in some Gaian countries de-jure. However, de-facto, due to propaganda and conformism, which affects far more than 50% of the population, it is the case that the rulers, through the means of propaganda and mass media, effectively control the population, making the fact that people can vote irrelevant.
3.3: A two-party system (like de-facto that in the USA) is not a true democracy, so it leaves out at least some (though not necessarily all) Gaian countries from being democracies.
3.4: Representative democracy is not true democracy. Only direct democracy is true democracy. Something vaguely similar to that exists (Switzerland), but it's still very far from being an actual democracy
Which is better?
1: Digital minimalism. Why?
1.1: Scrolling on social media is unhealthy.
1.2: The real life is better than the Internet.
1.3: Purely for privacy reasons (this is more relevant in Gaia/Centralia).
1.4: Because of censorship (this is also more relevant in Gaia/Centralia). Note: some media criticizes this option by saying "if something is censored on the Internet to the point of being unavailable, then you can bet your ass it's even more censored in real life: you're not gonna find that information in libraries, book stores or anything. Not using the Internet doesn't solve this problem at all".
1.5: Because of government propaganda and ideological extremism that is emotionally toxic and causes negative feelings (this is only relevant in Gaia/Centralia, as by definition, in Pangea you can curate your Internet experience exactly the way you want it). Some media criticizes this option by saying "if there's propaganda and toxic social dynamics on the Internet, it'll be like that in real life, too", but some media responds to that criticism by saying "no, one can isolate oneself socially (which is seen as neutral or positive by this media, and may be a pro-solitude media, either necessary ("social interactions are bad, always") or contingent ("social relationships are bad in some cases, and in those cases, do isolate yourself, it's the best choice")) to avoid propaganda and toxic social dynamics. Furthermore, if one is lucky enough to be friends or partner with non-toxic people, one can interact with those, so avoiding the Internet is not 'useless'".
1.6: Digital non-minimalism (moderate or even extreme usage) is not bad, unhealthy or anything. In this option, digital minimalism is done just for the retro aesthetics, nothing more.
2: Digital maximalism. Why?
2.1: Human beings have a characteristic such as the more information one has in their minds, the better. Humans in the prehistory lived awful lives because of the ignorance, and lives get better with more information. The ideal state of human beings is one where one is constantly exposed to new information. Therefore, "scrolling on social media" or "reading random stuff online" is the best way to spend one's time. The most extreme forms of digital maximalism suggest sleeping with earphones and listening to digital podcasts while one sleeps, claiming that even when one's sleeping, the information is absorbed subconsciously, therefore improving one's mind.
2.1.1: Humans are evolving into a new species: Homo Informaticus, and therefore, it's good to have as much information in your mind as possible, or you'll be left behind.
2.1.2: Humans are not evolving into a new species, or at least, not anytime soon, but it's still a good thing to maximize the information intake.
2.2: Because the hypnotic state and the mental stimulation one gets while scrolling or reading random stuff or listening to random podcasts feels good and is good for the moment. There are only two reasons why one may feel bad after scrolling for a while: because one was conditioned to believe that scrolling is "a waste of time", "unhealthy", "unproductive" or something like that, and the bad feeling one gets is simply a nocebo effect (a negative effect caused by the belief that there would be a negative effect). The other reason is, for instance, on Gaian and Centralian social media, one is mostly unable to choose the content one sees. The "feeds" are decided by huge corporations and cannot be modified by users. Therefore, one may see disturbing content, or even simply content that makes one angry or anxious, or decreases one's self-esteem (through "social comparison" or, for example, because lots of people say bad things about something the user likes to do, making one feel like they're a bad person). The problem, according to #2.2 media, is not the scrolling itself, but the content one sees during such activity. #2.2 states that if one is able to choose exactly the content one wants to see, and one is not conditioned to believe scrolling is unhealthy or bad, such bad feeling will never occur, and that therefore digital maximalism is a good thing, and that you should spend most of your time, as much as possible, on screens, Internet, videogames, scrolling etc.
3: An in-between. Why?
3.1: "Time in-between". Not using the Internet at all in the 2020's is unrealistic, and the Internet has helped improve lives, but digital maximalism is excessive. It's also good to "go outside and touch grass" (unless you live in a barren tundra... then go outside and touch rocks or ice) at least for a few hours a day.
3.2: "Type in-between". This idea states that the "in-between" refers to the type of digital usage rather than the time spent on it. For instance, use digital media/devices to learn new skills, to send messages to people you care about, but don't use it for mindless entertainment.
3.2.1: Even the mindless entertainment is good, as you can learn new things and think about ideas you had never thought about before, which can potentially transform your life in a positive way.
4: Either is fine. Why?
4.1: How much you use digital media, or what type, is not that important, at the end of the day. Just do whatever you want in your free time, the amount of time and type of digital usage in your life is arbitrary and won't change your life that much, or in important manners.
4.1.1: Do whatever you want and don't think too much about it.
4.1.2: Do think about it but don't let it make you believe that there's a "correct" amount or way to use digital media/devices. There's no "correct" time/type of usage, it's all arbitrary.
5: Variety is the best option. For example, digital minimalism during New Moon, digital maximalism during Full Moon, gradual increase of digital usage during waxing moon, and gradual decrease during waning moon. Why?
5.1: The point is precisely the variety. In life, it's best to experience as many different things as possible. If you only live as a digital minimalist, digital maximalist, or an in-between value, your life lacks variety and is "incomplete", as you won't know what the other options feel like.
How do you define "digital"?
1: Just the Internet. Electronic devices are excluded from the definition as long as they're not connected to the Internet.
2: The Internet + devices that are capable of being connected to the Internet, even if they're not connected. An old dumbphone (e.g. the Nokia 3310) is excluded from the definition.
3: The Internet + devices that are capable of being connected to the Internet + all mobile phones, even the very old ones that can't connect to the Internet.
4: All that is included in #3 but also videogame consoles, even the old ones that can't connect to the Internet (eg. NES, SNES, PS1 etc. the N64 can technically connect to the Internet, as well as the Dreamcast). Watching TV channels is not included in the definition of "digital".
5: All that is included in #4 but also TV channels.
6: All in #5 plus landline phones.
7: Anything that uses electricity. This is the broadest possible definition.
7.1: Some media notes that until a few centuries ago, not having electricity was considered perfectly normal (because electric devices did not exist at all) and that people "lived normally". Some media complains that humans have "gotten weaker" and suggest not using electricity, or at least minimizing its usage, whereas other media praises electricity for having improved people's lives dramatically.
1: Action figures and plushies of any character you can image, from any media, as well as of Gaian political figures (current and historical).
1: A circle-shaped touch-screen smartphone, and the apps are displayed within a square whose four angles touch the circumference of the circular screen, and this is a method already described in Part 1. This type of smartphone however has another method on top of that "square within the circle": instead of the remaining area being empty, on the top there's the name of the app, on the left there is a "back" button, on the right there is a "back to menu" button, which shows the menu, and on the bottom there is "open apps" list, where you can see the list of apps you opened and switch apps and do multitasking. That is a smart way to occupy the remaining space.
Unless it's a very small town (in which cases there are also thematic areas but maybe only just 10-20, the more basic and popular ones), every city in Pangea has an extreme variety of thematic areas (often over 10,000+ in a city of a million inhabitants, all of them directly accessible from the Tranzit without having to pass through any other thematic area, and of course, in Pangea you can live your entire life without having to pass through a single thematic area, since all services and products are guaranteed to be accessible directly through the Tranzit... thematic areas are fully optional!), so there's a very high chance each of these are found in every city:
1: A thematic area that looks like Morioh from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
2: Cyberpunk.
3: Medieval fantasy.
4: Sharia street.
5: Post-apocalyptic fallout zone.
6: Friendster streets. In these streets, interacting with random strangers to try to befriend them or just to chat is totally allowed and even encouraged! This is where one can try to make new friends, even as an adult. Of course, outside of these streets, it's generally discouraged to talk to random strangers, as it's likely they just want to go on about their day and do their things without being talked to by strangers. Friendster streets of course have cinemas, restaurants, entertainment etc. and even there, it's encouraged to talk to random people.
7: Gaia-based thematic areas. Streets that look like the streets of Italy, Japan, Russia, North Korea etc. and in some Pangean cities there are also replicas of foreign attractions like the Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Red Square of Moscow etc. visually, if you're in the replica of the Red Square, it will look pretty much exactly like actually being at the Red Square in Moscow!
8: Fake transgression streets: streets made specifically so that people can have the feeling of breaking some rule. For example, the fake Sharia street is where you can break Islamic rules, insult Allah etc. and the actors there pretend to be shocked. Of course, you have to pay those actors if you want those experiences (they need money too, of course). Or you can go to a fake Jewish neighborhood and wave Swastika flags, or you can go to a fake North Korean transgression street and insult Kim Jong Un. You can also pay to destroy a statue of Kim Jong Un in those streets, or dirty it with ketchup. Destroying it costs much more, because if you destroy a statue, someone has to create another one, whereas dirtying it with ketchup or throwing garbage at it costs much less, since then a dedicated worker simply has to clean it, which is much less work compared to building a statue.
9: Nudist areas. Only for people who are 18 or older, and there are strict hygienic standards in the nudist areas to prevent diseases, so it's safe. There are cinemas, restaurants, entertainment etc. in nudist areas, too! You have to sit on towels in nudist areas, for hygienic reasons.
10: Nazi street: full of swastikas flags etc.
11: Kawaii street: full of very cute illustrations everywhere, on the walls of the buildings, everything is very colorful etc.
12: Sci-fi street with various aesthetics.
12.1: Sci-fi street with chrome grey, semi-reflective surfaces everywhere: on the ground, on the walls of the buildings, on streetlights, on outdoor benches etc.
13: Area without electricity. People don't necessarily live there (though they can if they want, it's not forbidden), but the area is guaranteed to exist so that people can go there during their free time to get immersed in that aesthetics. Some people have, as their gamma (work role), to populate the no-electricity areas during their work time and tell fake stories to the paying customers about how "their community" (which is fake) "survives without electricity" and stuff like that.
14: Dating street. A street that is pretty much the physical equivalent of dating apps (except that dating streets existed since antiquity in some form or another in Pangea). You go there and in those streets it's actively encouraged to search for a partner. Of course, you can say no, the other person can say no, but approaching people for romantic or long-term sexual reasons is perfectly allowed, encouraged even, since that's the entire point of those streets! So you can approach people without shame, and you can also expect to be approached.
15: Communist street.
15.1: Generic communist street.
15.2: Maoist communist street.
15.3: Cuban communist street.
15.4: Vietnamese communist street.
15.5: Soviet Communist street.
15.5.1: Pre-WWII Soviet Communist street.
15.5.2: Cold war Soviet Communist street.
15.5.3: late 1980's Soviet Communist street.
15.6: North Korean Communist street.
16: Fairy forest street.
17: Satanism street.
18: Conservative Christianity street.
19: Vaporwave street.
20: Frutiger Aero street.
21: an area that looks like Nibelheim from Final Fantasy VII.
22: an area that looks like Rabanastre from Final Fantasy XII.
23: Corporate Memphis street.
24: Satanic Vaporwave Street.
25: Conservative Christianity Corporate Memphis street.
26: Biker area. There are also tracks when one can go and drive, tracks for bycicles, motorcycles etc. there are some safety precautions but these areas exist.
27: LGBT street, full of LGBT flags, parades, decorations etc.
28: Steampunk street. Obviously, it doesn't have actual steampunk technology, just the aesthetics.
29: Noir detective street.
Because in Pangea you can buy media that says literally anything, like "microwaving newborn babies is healthy for them: the radiation stimulates their intelligence and helps them grow better and healthier", or "heroin will make you become immortal, the reason why foreign governments ban it is because they control people through the idea that one day you'll die, and heroin overdoses don't exist and are just lies to discourage people from becoming immortal", the Pangean government (or heavily trusted fact-checking companies) provide official truth, like "no, microwaving babies is not healthy for them, it kills them certainly and immediately. Doing so is illegal so do not do that." and "no, heroin will not make you become immortal, it's extremely addictive, dangerous, and there's a relatively high chance it will lead to an overdose death because it requires progressively higher doses to give the same effect. Buying and consuming heroin is legal in Pangea, however, as it's a decision an adult makes". The content of the official truth remains the same, but the aesthetics can be customized. If one requests the official truth to be said cutely by a cute anime girl (or a rebellious biker full of muscles wearing a leather jacket, or anything else, for that matter), the government or trusted fact-checking companies will provide that. This is done for two reasons: one is that, obviously, during free time, the sensorial experience of wishes must be approximated as closely as possible, and second, if a person is more likely to trust a cute anime girl over a sentence said in a formal, bland tone, then it's more efficient to let a cute anime girl tell the official truth to that specific person. In Pangea, it's perfectly legal to not believe in the official truth, as long as nothing illegal is done. If one gets hurt from their own actions because they disbelieved in the official truth, it's their problem. However, even though it's legal to not believe in the official truth, it's still preferrable if more people believed in it compared to less people, so the aesthetics are used to build trust. If one trusts a cute anime girl better than a bland, formal tone, then it will be the cute anime girl who tells the official truth to that specific person.
In Pangea, it's perfectly legal to be a conservative Christian, Muslim, National Socialist ("Nazi"), Murdakist (believing that people who wear yellow t-shirts should be punished with death), anti-LGBT, fascist etc. it's legal to believe in that stuff, publish and read/watch writings and videos about that (and actually, it's not just legal, the existence of such media is literally a guarantee in Pangea), being in a community about that, either with matchers (people who also believe that) or, if no organic community exists, there is a guarantee of workers who'll perform acting to give a sense of community for you, the customer. However, it's illegal to try to impose those laws on the Pangean society. That is a punishable crime called "usurpation". The legal alternative to that is simply to pay for a LARP (live-action role-playing) where actors pretend that your preferred laws have become the laws of Pangea, and that the previous order was destroyed. You can also pay for fake newspapers that announce the destruction of the previous order and the beginning of a new one based on your preferred laws, setting "a new era for Pangea". Those are called "usurpation LARP's" and can be very satisfying to some, and give a sense of power. However, real, non-fictional usurpation is a crime in Pangea.
1: The official truth was first estabilished by King Agüuaz in 450 B.C. because the increasing literacy and books produced were starting to confuse the population about what was true or not, so he estabilished an organization of knowledgeable workers where one could pay in order to let the customer know whether the content of the book was true, false, or yet unknown. Many (though not all, especially in the beginning) of scribes, when they copied books, were slowly being required to write the "official truth" in the first page, though it took some time for all books to have that. Even in antiquity, books were not censored in Pangea. The rulers, especially after King Agüuaz, realized that the saturation of information (which happened since antiquity) provided an amazing opportunity for them to control the population through the official truth (without which nobody would even know if a certain plant or mushroom was poisonous, so the population was forced to use the official truth). Though censorship pretty much never existed, the official truth was not always super honest, and often benefitted the king, although the non-political information such as the safety of certain plants, or how to build things etc. was always honest. With time, the official truth evolved more and more.