Demichronia

I will divide "Pangea" ("the land of everything", i.e. basically an infinite land where everything happens somewhere in it) into three "regions":

• 1: Panchronia: everyone has everything they want, all the time. This implies that everyone lives in their separate virtual realities, and that everyone they interact with is not a real, conscious being, but rather, a philosophical zombie, i.e. an entity that is indistinguishable from a human being (or another living being) but lacks qualia (conscious experiences). Everyone in Panchronia lives in their own virtual reality, or in a Boltzmann Brain, or in an otherwise solipsistic environment.
• 2: Demichronia: everyone has "everything" (more or less, I'll explain better below) they want during their free time, but during the work time they have to work and please the customers (a customer is someone during their free time). It's not that a worker must do everything a customer says, but rather, each worker has their own role, and for (almost) every wish, there's at least one worker (within an affordable radius, e.g. about 15-30 minutes of walking) whose role is to fulfill that type of wish.
• 3: Achronia: there is no time where one systematically gets what they want. Gaia (Earth) is part of Achronia, but it has the potential to become part of Panchronia, or at the very least have very strong Panchronic influences in the near future due to Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Demichronia (better explained): everyone has "everything" (more or less, I'll explain better below) they want during their free time, but during the work time they have to work and please the customers (a customer is someone during their free time). It's not that a worker must do everything a customer says, but rather, each worker has their own role, and for (almost) every wish, there's at least one worker who fulfills that wish. Here's how to visualize free time in Demichronia: during one's free time, everyone has (approximately) everything they want, except for two main situations: 1: if the desire is so expensive that they either cannot afford it, or that they can afford it but they choose not to spend the money on it. 2: if the desire is physically and/or technologically unrealistic. As for one's work time, the question may arise: must one do everything that a customer tells them to do? No, that would be slavery. Workers have a specific role, and that's what they must do in their work time. This question is better explained through this concept: Delta.

Delta: basically, the Delta is the difference in terms of actions, experiences etc. that one person goes either day after day, or week after week at work. It can be divided into two main subcategories: Daily Delta (the difference in one's work time day after day) and Weekly Delta (the difference in one's work time week after week). Demichronia, as a system, has the goal to minimize everyone's Delta, as much as possible. The reason is to avoid what this philosophy calls asynchronicity, which is basically when something that you do in your free time has consequences on your work time. There are two main types of asynchronicities: asynchronous punishments and asynchronous rewards. Asynchronous punishments are when something you do in your free time has negative consequences in your work time, whereas asynchronous rewards are when something you do in your free time has positive consequences in your work time. Your free time isn't really free if something that you do in your free time has consequences in your work time. By minimizing the Delta, this system tries to make every day (or week) at work as similar as possible to each other, to prevent asynchronicities. An example of how this is made is through sandboxing the roles of the workers: a plumber must only do things related to plumbing (fixing pipes in someone's house), a customer cannot pay a plumber to kiss them on the mouth, for example. However, for (almost) every wish, there must be at least one worker who can fulfill that wish. That means, if you want someone to kiss you, you can pay for a professional partner who roleplays a romantic time with you. Of course, you cannot ask that person to fix the pipes in your house. The professional partner only works as a professional partner. Moreover, to minimize the Delta, each professional partner may have a range of "services offered", in order to avoid the experiences of that worker to be too different day after day. So, each professional partner offers different experiences! And of course, if you just want to be kissed on your mouth without any surrounding "plot" behind it, you can pay for that, too! The Delta must be minimized as much as possible, and this was true even in ancient societies! Of course, back then the Delta was higher, but the attempt of minimizing it existed even back then. Minimizing the Delta also means that, if this rule is extended to animals (and it's supposed to be!), Demichronia is supposed to be a vegetarian country (however, for pragmatic reasons, it's not yet a vegetarian country, but it will become one in 2050). Why? Because animals work for humans: they give humans milk and eggs, and in exchange they get taken care of (animals are treated quite well in Demichronia). Beastiality (having sex with animals) is also illegal in Demichronia. If an animal gets killed, then the Delta cannot be calculated anymore, because there's no "next day". You can't get killed every day, after all, so that cannot be considered work. Because of this reason, non-consensual murder is considered the worst crime in Demichronia. Assisted suicide or euthanasia is not considered inherently bad, because you died in your free time i.e. as a result of your own wish, and fulfilling desires is one of the greatest values of Demichronia. Anyway, even though Demichronia will become a vegetarian country in 2050, there are vegetarian or vegan meat alternatives (which I'll call "v-meat" or "v-[animal] (e.g. "v-chicken") from now on, keep this in mind) that taste pretty much the same as actual meat, and fictional content depicting beastiality (e.g. animations, stories, videogames etc.) is legal, so if an animal does not get hurt, wishes that simulate animal abuse without actually causing it (e.g. eating v-meat, fictional content depicting beastiality) are legal and available to be fulfilled. Meat is as of 2025 still available to eat and purchase, including dog meat, cat meat, snakes, bugs, scorpions, crocodiles etc.

Note about vegetarianism: when I didn't concern myself with the history of Demichronia, I said that Demichronia is a vegetarian country. It follows from the principles, especially if v-meat (that tastes exactly like actual meat) exists. However, as soon as I concerned myself with the history of the society, I realized that there must had been a specific moment where meat was banned. But what year? It's technically possible to have ancient vegetarian societies. After all, the Pythagoreans and Jainists, even in ancient times, followed a vegetarian diet. So there's a dilemma: human taste vs the right of the animals to keep living in their "free time". Two considerations: meat has been and still is widespread across most human cultures. Furthermore, non-herbivorous animals kill and eat other animals, so the right for the animals to live in their free time is not granted to them, even if humans do not kill them. If those animals are not killed by humans, they'll be killed by other animals. This creates a more complex moral situation. I may change this in the future, but for now, I think the most consistent take is this: for now, meat is legal in Demichronia. However, as soon as v-meat reaches a level where both taste and nutritional values are pretty much the same as actual meat, meat will be banned. Or maybe it already has been banned in Demichronia. I don't know. In order for my choice to be realistic and consistent, I think I'll need to do some research and thinking about things. If the Demichronian values were to be applied to animals, the government must protect wild animals from being predated by other animals. For the animals' free time to be truly Demichronian, they must be protected not only from humans killing them, but from other animals killing them as well. There are a few options, none of them currently adhere fully to the Demichronian values applied to animals. In order to apply these values to animals as well, predation must be abolished, but predators' wishes in their free time must be fulfilled as well: so, the Demichronian government, ideally, must give nutritional v-meat to predators and isolate them from prey. It's unclear whether or not this would be safe for the biosphere. I'll need to do more research and make speculative choices in order for Demichronia to remain consistent. Anyway, for now, it is like this: as soon as v-meat reaches a level where it's indistinguishable from actual meat not only in taste but also in nutritional values, actual meat will be banned. As soon as it is possible to eliminate predation without destroying the ecosystems, the Demichronian government will attempt that as well. To do this before it's proper, would not be wise. Tentative dates: in 2050, actual meat will be banned in Demichronia. In 2100, predation even in the wild will be banned in Demichronia. This is fictional but I still want this to be realistic, as it'd provide a much more interesting setting. Anyway, banning meat by itself is necessary but not sufficient to apply Demichronian values to animals. Animals must not only be protected from predation but also from starvation, dehydration and diseases, like the Demichronian government does (or at least, does its best to try) with humans. Banning meat by itself would be insufficient, but it'd be necessary. Banning meat without being able to provide animals a truly free time... I think it'd be something that doesn't make sense from a Demichronian point of view. From a Demichronian point of view, the focus is on the individual animals themselves: it doesn't matter if it's a human or another animal who kills them, both of those situations equally go against the Demichronian values. For now, since animals cannot have a truly free time, even with the best intentions, it doesn't make a lot of sense to ban meat. However, as soon as it becomes possible to give animals a truly free time, the answer will change. The vegetarianism aspect of Demichronia is a work in progress, so there will be changes in this page as soon as I figure things out. Possible thoughts: it's only allowed in Demichronia to eat meat whose animals are already prey in the wild, and only if there's no possibility to protect those animals, especially if it's not possible to protect those animals without causing starvation of predators (which would go against the predators' free time). I'll try to figure something out, for now this is a moral puzzle.

Alright, my final "conclusion" is... trying to apply Demichronian values to animals, with current technology, is impossible. Even applying that to some animals is not exactly feasible. Not only would it be technologically unfeasible but it'd disrupt the wildlife's food chain. However, as soon as it becomes feasible (i.e. with an abundance of synthetic meat to feed all obligate carnivores in Demichronia), the Demichronian government will attempt it. Until then, meat (including dog meat, cat meat etc.) is legal and officially sold in Demichronia. End of the reasoning. I'll clean this page eventually to reflect that.

Human labor is required to keep society going, but post-scarcity may be achieved in the future (both in Gaia and Demichronia) due to Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), which makes work unnecessary. Coupled with generative artificial intelligence that can give you everything you want in a virtual reality, Gaia has the potential to become a part of Panchronia in the not-so-distant future. Also, you may be wondering: why does abundance in Demichronia and Gaia increases as time passes by? Well, it's for two main reasons: increasing population density and automation. With an increased population density, the number of people in a certain area increases, and therefore the jobs can be better distributed and become more specialized, decreasing the Delta. With automation, each wish needs less people to be fulfilled. For instance, in nomadic times and early Bronze Age, the vast majority of people needed to work directly on food production in order to have the bare minimum amount of food to survive. However, in 2025, the amount of technology has caused a high level of automation, which means producing the same amount of food requires many less workers. As automation increases, the people who are no longer required to perform that job can do something else, and therefore more wishes can be fulfilled with the same amount of people (and what's more, due to the increased population density, it's not even the same amount of people, it's more than before!). Another example of automation is the production of books: before the printing press, copying books required a lot more work, and you needed many scribes. After the printing press, books could be spread much faster, with the same amount of people as before! With ASI in the future, it can be speculated that nobody will need to work at all. This is speculative for now, but, uh, I guess we'll find out for ourselves in our lifetimes, sooner than we think! (The future we were promised shines so bright, it's out of reach but within sight~)

Demichronia requires a certain number of people to function: with just two people, the Delta of each of the two people is full, and the asynchronicity is extreme. This means there's no truly free time, as there may be (and likely will be) asynchronous punishments. On the other hand, with very low Delta, the vast majority of the wishes of those two people will remain unfulfilled. Both scenarios are, by definition, not Demichronic! With a higher number of people, roles can be distributed across more people, reducing the Delta for each worker. It's better, therefore, that Demichronic settlements have a certain number of people (I don't know what the minimum number is, but most definitely more than 2, lol, but I suspect even a small town of 10,000 people would be more than sufficient for a Demichronic society), and preferably with at least a relatively high density, so that services can be available in a shorter distance! Automation reduces the Delta even more! In the future, as mentioned before, it's possible that human work will not be necessary at all, but that would be Panchronia by then! I think a certain number of people is needed but at some point it will probably have some diminishing returns: human desires, or concepts, are not infinite. Just like concepts expressed by language (e.g. words, morphemes), there's only a certain number of them, and the rest, no matter how oddly specific it is, is simply the result of combining two or more of those simpler concepts to make a new one. This is more evident in agglutinative or polysynthetic languages. It's a modular understanding of desires. You clearly don't need an infinite amount of people to create a Demichronic society. Anyway, the "rule" of a Demichronic society is that people can have what they want in their free time, combined with a very low Delta (variation from day to day) in their work time. That's pretty much literally it. It requires distributing the roles of each worker in such a way that, when considered as a whole, "workers" (as a group, not individually) can fulfill every desire.

There's also another variable other than the delta: alpha. Alpha refers to the range of wishes that "the-workers" (understood as a Gestalt-like collective entity) can fulfill. Delta refers to the broadness of the scope and variability of the work day after day (basically, maximizes specialization). Demichronia tries to maximize the alpha and minimize the delta. The ratio between alpha and delta is what I call "Demichronic Coefficient". The higher it is, the closer a society resembles Demichronia.

Probably a good way to visualize Demichronia would be this: think about a part-time slave, that is, someone who, for a certain amount of hours a day (maybe around 6 to 8) has to obey to your every wish, with few basic exceptions (e.g. that slave won't obey if you tell them "kill yourself" or some violent stuff, except if that violent stuff is against yourself, of course). That's not Demichronia, of course, just a part-time slave. Now, imagine that person gets divided into 100,000, or another number, depending on the working population of the city, and each of those people has a role, in such a way that for each wish that the part-time slave that we imagined before could fulfill, there is at least one person among those 100,000 (or among another number, that will vary depending on the city) that can fulfill that wish (in exchange of money, of course). Clearly, the more people, the more specific the role (and therefore lower the delta) of each worker will be. Of course, when taken as a collective, "workers" will always have pretty much full scope, with the usual basic exceptions. That's what Demichronia is like either as a tourist or as an inhabitant during their free time. During one's work time, one is required to perform a specific task (the same every time, it doesn't change), and one gets paid for that.

Another good way to visualize Demichronia is this: the experience in Demichronia during your free time is somewhat similar to Panchronia, that is, you approximately have everything you want - with some obvious limitations, since Demichronia is a real, physical reality instead of a virtual one, and since there is scarcity, things cost money - but the people you interact with are not philosophical zombies: they have consciousness, they are real people, and their job is to fulfill the type of wish you have expressed. Those people you met did more or less the same thing yesterday, and will do more or less the same thing tomorrow (assuming those are their work days). In your work time, it's you who work, and do more or less the same thing 5 days a week. That's pretty much it. Of course, you can also interact with non-workers during your free time, but those interactions are less frequent. Still, if you live in Demichronia and have friends there, you can interact with them. If you don't have friends in Demichronia, you can still interact with people in your free time, it's just that those people are workers, specifically those whose job is "professional friend". Note that "professional friend" is pretty vague, and different professional friends will perform different types of companionship. If you want to play videogames, those may be different from those you can play basketball with, or from those who comfort you in a time of difficulty. Each professional friend is better at some thing than others, and that's likely the type of companionship they offer. Of course, a professional friend can offer more than just one type of companionship, e.g. one may offer videogames + comfort from sadness, but of course that's not guaranteed, and it depends on what they're good at. Different people are good at providing different types of company, and that's true even among "regular" friendships. However, for each type of company you want, there is at least one professional friend whose job is to provide it. Like in Gaia, in Demichronia there's no guarantee of having non-professional friends, but having professional friends (perhaps "companions" is a better word, since what they offer is company) is guaranteed if you pay.

The main reason for minimizing the Delta (the variation of work for a specific individual), as I explained before, is to minimizing the possibilities of asynchronicities. For instance, if one in their free time expresses an opinion someone doesn't like, it shouldn't be allowed that the person expressing that opinion will be subject to unpleasant consequences during their work time in the next day. If the Delta was not minimized, there could be a loophole where there would be asynchronicities, and free time would not really be free. Let's indicate an average work day for a specific individual as "W", the most pleasant/light work day allowed for that person as "W+" and the most unpleasant/exhausting work day allowed for that person as "W-". Assuming that a customer can make a request that would make the day (or part of it) of a worker as "W-" in response to something the worker said in their free time which the customer didn't like, that would be an asynchronous punishment, and it would go against the Demichronic axiom, because it would deter people from doing/experiencing what they want in their free time, because the thought "if I do F (a certain action in one's free time), then tomorrow at work W- (an unpleasant consequence) will happen" may be installed in one's mind through inductivistic reasoning if the consequence has a regular enough frequency. That would deter someone from doing F (a certain action/experience) in their free time because of the negative consequences it would bring the day after at work. The same reasoning works with rewards too, of course. Therefore, the variability allowed at work in Demichronia must be as low as possible. Of course, it's not like each day is a copy of each other. There is some variability but it's kept as low as pragmatically possible, to avoid asynchronicities. For instance, a mangaka (manga artist) won't work on the same scene every day, there is variability, but the variability is kept in the context of working on mangas. The mangaka may work on different scenes of a manga, on different mangas as well, but the mangaka cannot be requested to kiss a customer or to fix pipes in one's house, as that is not the job of the mangaka. So, the low delta doesn't mean that each day is literally identical, just that each day is similar, or at least similar enough to avoid asynchronicites.

As for discrimination, it's allowed in certain cases but not allowed on others. Here's a list:

• Refusing service to a customer is allowed if and only if the customer can have that service, of a comparable quality, from another worker in an accessible radius (e.g. 15/30 minutes of walking... 15 minutes if it's an essential service, 30 minutes if it's superfluous... perhaps one hour at most if it's something super specific). For instance, years ago on the Gaian Internet there was an interesting debate regarding whether or not a conservative Christian baker should be forced to bake a cake for a gay couple's marriage. As expected, some Gaians said they should be forced to bake the cake, some Gaians said they shouldn't be forced to bake the cake. A variation of opinions must be expected from Demichronians as well, but in terms of law, in Demichronia that baker would be forced to bake that cake if and only if the said customers (i.e. the gay couple) were unable to get the cake they requested, of a comparable quality of that they would have gotten from that baker, somewhere else. In that case, the baker would be considered to have a monopoly in that area, and monopolies are subject to different rules in Demichronia and they are not allowed to discriminate like that. If the couple were able to get the cake somewhere else, then that baker would not be a monopoly, and would be allowed to discriminate against that couple. In Demichronia, it's a preferable situation to not have the monopoly: if a conservative Christian is allowed to discriminate against e.g. gay couples and not bake a cake for their marriage, the Delta of the baker is lower and therefore it's better, and the couple wouldn't be disadvantaged, because they can get the cake somewhere else: the alpha (the sum of desires that workers as a group can satisfy) remains as high as possible. Now, you may think the couple may waste their time in a situation like that, but that's not the case. In Demichronia, usually the "starting point" in one's free time is an information center, so, for instance, a gay couple can ask to the information provider "where can we get a cake for our marriage?", and the informant provides that information (and it's relatively cheap, too, affordable). Without the information center, Demichronian cities are difficult to navigate, anyway. Due to its structure, the problem of discrimination is not harmful. Information centers are kind of like search engines, but for a physical reality (a town/city) rather than for a virtual one like the Internet.
• Employment, discriminatory firing. In terms of employment, firing etc. it's not allowed to refuse employment or fire someone for their ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation etc. not even for their political viewpoint! For instance, if someone expresses an opinion in their free time, they cannot be fired or refuse employment for that! That would be an asynchronicity and it's not allowed in Demichronia! The Delta must remain as low as possible!
• Discrimination in interactions between customers: interactions between customers are based on consent and there can be freedom of association, so if you don't want to be friends with someone for any reason (e.g. you're racist and don't want to be friends with someone based on their ethnciity) that's perfectly allowed. People in their free time have no obligation to be friends with anyone if they don't want to: that would be a job, more specifically, "professional companion". Job-like behaviors are not required from people in their free time.
• Discriminatory speech/opinions. Perfectly allowed to be expressed, as long as you're not forcing anyone to listen to them (that would be a non-consensual conversation). In any case, there are people whose job is to listen to an opinion. Not necessarily to any opinion, but for each opinion, there is at least one worker whose job is to listen to that type of opinion, you can pay and they'll listen to that opinion, and maybe even give you some interesting concepts to consider and to further develop your views (even if they're horrible, but there's no judgement of that... unless you want to be judged, of course). Of course, if your views involve activities that are illegal in Demichronia, you'll be provided "context" where you're reminded that those things are illegal, but after that, there are pretty much no limits in that person listening to you or giving you more interesting ideas that you can consider, even if those ideas involve illegal activities and reinforce your biases. After all, you were reminded that certain things are illegal in Demichronia, so if you go ahead and do those things anyway, you cannot use "I didn't know it was illegal!" as an excuse! There will be repercussions, so it's better to just limit yourself in saying those things and don't do anything further than just saying them. In any case, you can also pay to enter clubs where people think in ways similar to you, and if no person organically thinks like you do, there will be people whose job is to provide a sense of community where they'll act as if they agreed with you. It's an act, but those workers are selected on the basis that their actual opinions are (if possible) not too dissimilar from the ones they're acting, so the "f(r)iction" is reduced (even if not completely eliminated).

Geography: Demichronia is part of "Dark Gaia", a hidden part of Gaia (Earth) accessible by travelling to (or flying over) Nemo Point, the point farthest from any land. Nemo Point is a portal that connects Gaia to Dark Gaia and vice-versa. Other than Demichronia, Dark Gaia also contains the continents of Centralia, Aurora, Borea and Sudhurland. I'll give a brief explanation of the cultures of these continents, but not in-depth, because this page is not about them: Centralia is a country based on Libertarianism, an ideology that promotes the NAP (Non-Aggression Principle) and basically states that every interaction should be consensual. However, as I've found out years ago, the dark side of Libertarianism is that there is immense potential for indirect coercion, creating a situation where few, extremely powerful corporations are de-facto quasi-governments. Aurora has a very hedonistic culture, but in a vague way, without adhering to a specific economic system. It's less about fulfilling desires and more about promoting a specific and superficial idea of pleasures, that revolve on stereotypical ideas of drugs and sex and cannot be decided by the individual. People are so lazy there that they don't care about reading books, they call that "lame", whereas in Demichronia desires vary depending on the individual but they're always available to be fulfilled, including if you want to read books. Aurora's society is similar to Brave New World in some ways. In Aurora, when people are stressed they usually take a special drug that relieves them from stress, similar to soma in Brave New World. Sudhurland is a totalitarian, repressive, patriarchal society where most people live in poverty, and extreme punishments like crucifixion and torture are common even for small crimes. People are encouraged to seek poverty and suffering, because in Sudhurland there's a mentality of "suffering makes you strong and gives meaning to your life". Pleasures are mostly forbidden. Sudhurland is almost exclusively a hot desert climate, with some small pockets of semi-arid climates in some inland mountainous areas, and is situated to the south-east of Demichronia. Borea is situated to the north of Demichronia and is exclusively a polar ice-cap climate, similar to Antarctica. Its area surrounds the North Pole down to around 70 °N of latitude, meaning it's a circular continent centered around the North Pole. It's very similar to Antarctica in many ways. There are human settlements in Borea but none of them are native, they're mostly research stations or temporary settlements that exist for various purposes. The settlements are owned by the governments of both Dark Gaia and regular Gaia. Since there's no equivalent of the Antarctic Treaty, minerals and precious materials are extracted from Borea, and that's the purpose of some of those settlements.

Climate: it must have very high diversity within a relatively small area (and it does)! Demichronia is an island that is very narrow in terms of longitude and vary "tall" in terms of latitude, extending from 20 °N to 70 °N, with continents very close to Demichronia's coasts, which prevent Demichronia's climate from being uniformly oceanic. Demichronia has a mountain range in the middle that extends from north to south, and that creates a rain shadow in eastern Demichronia, which is drier than the western part (my obsession with climatology that I had around 2013-2017 definitely paid off, lol). In terms of longitude, it extends for about 200 km (124.3 miles). I'll work on the geography and climate further in the future! For now, just know that the southernmost part (around 20-22 °N) has a tropical rainforest/savannah climate in its western coast, a tropical highland climate on the highlands in the middle, and the eastern part, due to its proximity to Sudhurland, has a hot desert climate with hot winters due to the tropical latitude: a climate phenomenon similar to that of Mecca, Saudi Arabia! I'll work on the other latitudes eventually!

Coming eventually! The rule is that the Delta (variation of work) must be minimized and the Alpha (amount of desires that the society as a whole can fulfill) must be maximized, as much as possible for each historical period. Of course, in ancient times the approximation was less perfect, but I'll try to understand what was the closest approximation for each historical period, being as realistic as possible, for better immersion.

Phases of history: (OLD draft, I'll likely modify this a lot with time!)

Note: this is an old draft of Demichronian history. I'll likely modify this a lot with time, and see if the Demichronic coefficient can be increased. Note that in this timeline, Demichronia is not yet a vegetarian society, but it will become one at some point before 2050!

• Nomadic (pre-4th millenium B.C.): the land that is currently ruled by SD was inhabited by nomadic tribes, who were hunter-gatherers. The vast majority of the people in the tribe were hunters and gatherers, but a few had different roles: warriors, night-sentinels, people who created rudimentary tools and weapons, hut builders, teachers of fighting and hunting etc. tribes were partiarchal, womens' role was often just to generate children and take care of them. Monogamy was not practiced, and the children were often taken care not necessarily by the biological parents, but by a special class of "babysitters" (it sounds weird to say that word when referring to a nomadic tribe... I'll have to find a cooler term, this one is lame). However, women could (and often were required to) also hunt and gather resources, as well as perform other roles. Economy was yet undefined, there was mostly no currency nor even barter, apart maybe from some rare instances, but there was no economic system. Tentative list of classes (I'll likely refine and change it): hunter-gatherers (the vast majority of the tribe), warriors, night sentinels (those who surveilled in the night-time to protect the tribe from human and animal threats), people who worked on rocks to create rudimentary tools and weapons, "babysitters" (those were also often teachers, they taught children how to perform jobs). There were also some other activities people could perform, like dancing, singing, playing some instruments (mostly percussions, like hitting a rock with something to produce a rythmic sound), thought since that was not very "productive", there were no people whose role was just that, it was just part of a larger role, which could be any other role listed before. The people who performed those things are called (by current SD historians) "entertainers", but it was not their entire role. Someone's role for example may have been hunting animals to provide food to the tribe, and then for like, one hour or so (or a limited time, in any case), they entertained other members of the tribe by singing, dancing and producing "music".
• Bronze Age: first sedentary settlements, and the start of writing (4th-2nd millennium B.C.): people were starting to grow crops and breed animals to get meat, milk and eggs from them. The vast majority of the population were harvesters and farmers: they grew crops and worked with farm animals to get food (meat, eggs and milk). Barter, and then a rudimentary currency based on precious metals started to form, and people started getting paid for their jobs. Most people were harverest and/or farmers and could barely have enough money to survive. If there was a bad harvest, famines were common, and many commoners starved to death. Slavery was defined as an all-encompassing role: people whose role was to obey to every wish of their master were considered slaves. De-jure, slaves had half of their time as their free time, however, de-facto, a loop-hole was used by their master: if the slave refused to obey in their free time, the master would use corporal punishment the next day, to punish disobedience. It was illegal to hit a slave in their free time, if a master did it, the master would be put to death. However, corporal punishment was allowed for any reason, or even for no reason at all during the slave's "work" time. That means, the master could punish the slave during the slave's "work" time if the slave refused to obey during their free time the day before. That loophope permitted de-facto full-time slavery. The loop-hole is now known as "asynchronous punishment". Non-slaves' role was more restricted, they didn't have to obey to every demand, but were only required to perform their role, which could be more or less broad depending on various factors, but never full. Full scope role was slavery. The more restricted the role, the less of a "slave" one was, and this concept applies even in modern times, where roles are much narrower compared to the ancient times. The narrower the role, the more "free" one is deemed. List of roles (to change and refine with time): harvesters and/or farmers (the vast majority of the population), warriors, night sentinels (to protect the settlement during the night), coppersmiths (people were starting to work with bronze in this historical period), "babysitters/teachers", "entertainers" etc. There were sex workers even back then. After all, it's the world's oldest job! Even in nomadic settlements there was sex work but since the economy was less defined, sex was just an activity that people did, without there being much of any economic structure behind it. Anyway, just like the nomadic times, children were usually not raised by parents, but by a specific class of people tasked with teaching children relevant tasks. Other roles: readers/writers (there were very few writers in this period, and they mostly worked for the noble class and the king), proto-police (they only protected people who could afford to pay, though... so, the upper classes), house builders, castle builders (for the king) etc. Interesting note about religion: people believed in the gods and they applied the work/free time distinction to the gods too! Each god had their own role: god of harvest, god of war etc. and people offered various offerings and sacrifices to the gods: that was how the gods were paid for their role. If the harvest failed, people interpreted it as "the offering was not large or good enough, we'll give the gods a better offering in the future!". Sometimes people practiced human sacrifice as an offering to the gods, but that practice became more and more unpopular as the millennia went by. By the first millennium C.E. the practice of human sacrifice stopped, and people offered other types of sacrificed to ask the gods to provide a good harvest or to make them win a war etc. Another interesting aspect of the culture of their time is that some people's roles were literally "being a victim of violence". Some people (not many, just a few) were chosen by the king to be whipped, tortured, or otherwise beaten, either by the king himself or by (usually rich or relatively rich) sadistic civilians. Some other roles were "mock fights", fights done for entertainment of the paying public, though the violence was real in those fights! People were required to periodically offer sacrifices to the gods. That requirement was in people's work time, as it was illegal to require anything from someone during someone's free time. "Offering sacrifices to the gods" was a role that pretty much everyone had, though of course just a small part of their role, only required occasionally. "Blasphemy" had never been a concept in SD, though. Religious requirements were pretty much just offering sacrifices to the gods, there were no other requirements or restrictions. It was totally legal to say bad things about the gods, and even say that you don't believe that they exist, but offering sacrifices was required when you were asked (unless you were in your free time, then nothing could be required from you in your free time!). The only exception was perhaps for slaves, the master could decide to punish their slave for any reason, or even for no reason at all, so it was possible for a slave to get punished for insulting the gods, at the master's sole discretion. Other people, since they did not have "corporal punishment" as part of their role, they couldn't get punished for "blasphemy", since it has always been legal in SD.
• Iron Age (2nd-1st millennium B.C.): people (more specifically, blacksmiths) started working on iron, created swords and more advanced weapons, and there were a few more roles, though just a part of the population had those roles: poets, actors (in outdoor or indoor theaters), sculptors etc. note that in these ancient times, people's roles was usually broader than modern times, so they could do more than one thing, but unless they were slaves, their role was not "full", that is, it was relatively broad but still didn't encompass everything. For example, someone could work in farms AND, for a part of their work time, be a poet or an actor. However, if that person was not a slave, their role was still limited to one or few things. A slave, on the other hand, had a "full" role, that is: anything could be demanded from them during their work time (and even during their free time, with the "asynchronous punishment" loop-hole, that permitted de-facto full-time slavery). Human sacrifice was rare at this point, and only done in cases of extreme emergency: usually people offered foods, precious metals, animals etc. to the gods. Sometimes people gaven up what they valued the most, some people even severed their own limbs and offered them to the gods, if previous offerings resulted in a failure. Again, "blasphemy" and the such were perfectly legal, so actors and poets could produce entertainment and stories that insulted the gods and said bad things about them. There were even manuscripts that contained insults against the gods. The insults were due to various reasons, but it was often the case (though not always) that the gods were insulted and cursed because they "didn't care about the well-being of humankind". In the 1st millennium B.C., with the rise of philosophy and other early sciences, some atheistic philosophies started existing, and here was the beginning of the "proto-fact-checking" in SD. The government claimed that those atheistic philosophies were "false", but the government didn't ban nor persecute them, as long as they offered sacrifices to the gods, which was required of pretty much everyone, but only occasionally and only during someone's work time, as it was illegal to coerce people into doing something during their free time. Appoach to religion was purely practical, and as long as one performed their role during their work time, there was no persecution. Those who refused to sacrifice to the gods, however, were put to death. Various philosophies of various kinds started emerging during the late 1st millennium B.C. hedonism, asceticism, pacifism, atheism, mysotheism, vegetarianism, veganism, pessimism, optimism, antinatalism, etc. they were free to propagate their philosophies as long as everyone performed their role during their work time. For example, even if someone was an atheist, they had to sacrifice to the gods, when required to do so. There were not just atheists during these times, but also mysotheists: they believed in the gods, but hated them (e.g. for their lack of care towards humans). Even if someone was a pacifist, they had to become a warrior if that was the assigned role, especially if their people were under attacked from a foreign kingdom/empire/city-state. However, even back then, roles were often assigned due to skills. If there were enough willing warriors, then pacifists could be kept alone, if if was not necessary that they became warriors. However, if there were not enough warriors and the others were pacifists, then those pacifists would be forced to be warriors.
• Classical age (1st-3rd century C.E.): at this time, there was an abundance never seen before. Mathematics and various sciences flourished, philosophy, rhetorics, entertainment, theaters, books, libraries, schools etc. were at a level never seen before. The percentage of slaves somewhat dropped, especially compared to early civilization. New spices and foods from other lands were starting to become available, though initially only for the rich (upper classes, nobles, etc.). Literacy rates were starting to increase, reaching around ~20/30% of the population, which was impressive for its times. As the general rule of SD history, work roles scopes kept becoming narrower: not only the number of slaves (slave = full scope) kept gradually dropping (as it was true for all SD history), but even for free people, their roles kept becoming narrower, and more specialized roles started forming. Some people at this point could do scribes as their entire job! The abundance of books grew at an incredible rate, especially due to higher literacy rates and the fact that papyrus and ink were starting to become cheaper, and more accessible to the general public (at least, among those who were literate). If one was rich, they could pay a scribe to make one or more copies of their book, making it easier to sell and spread. It was often a good choice, as the book could be sold at a higher price than the sum of money paid to the scribe. Books and theater acts had incredible variety, there was a book, theater act, story, poem etc. (I'll just say "book" from now on but I mean the other things as well) about pretty much any topic that was known at those times. Of course, one had to pay money to get a book, or to see a theater act, or do see any sort of entertainment. There were lots of erotica books as well, that could please any possible taste that was known at their times! SD always had incredible creative freedom, but before the classical age, they were held back somewhat by poverty and low level of technology. Sculptures about anything were also created, a huge amount of sculptures, which were then used as decorations for many different places! There were books that praised the gods, that insulted the gods, satyre books, interesting books with epic stories about anything (e.g. travel, love, fighting, anything, really). At least one copy of each book was preserved in the Library of Zbez, which exists even today and is a very important historical monument! Unlike the Library of Alexandria in Gaia, the Library of Zbez was preserved in full integrity! For some reason, SD governments did not have the habit of censoring or burning books, which means the knowledge and culture had been fully preserved. Books were not only about fiction but also science: math, astronomy, philosophy, biology etc. was studied in-depth and then the findings were transcribed in books! New tools and technologies kept being created: some tools advanced the methods of farming and harvesting, leading to more food and abundance. There were still plenty of famines too, though, but in "average" times, there was more abundance than ever before! Entertainers also started performing "illusionist tricks", which attracted audience and generated plenty of money! As entertainment, one could pay to see or participate in Olympic events!
• Cultural Golden Age (4th-century-10th century C.E.): slavery was still there, but was still gradually dropping. I'll include the slavery numbers in the next draft! Oh, by the way, in the next draft, the nomadic tribes will operate in an "isomorphic" system, where everyone was a "slave" (only for half of the time, though... at least "de-jure", "slavery" is defined as "full scope work")... it creates interesting implications! Then the numbers gradually dropped! For example, in the early Bronze Age, about 80/90% of the population were slaves, so basically everyone except the king and an always expanding class of "free" civilians. Anyway, at the Cultural Golden Age, slaves were probably around 25/20% (at the beginning) to around 15/10% (at the end) of the population, and the work roles kept getting narrower and narrower for "free" people. Some people's entire job was being a philosopher and writing books about philosophy, for example! Of course, they were a small minority, but big enough to create an extremely vast amount of different philosophies. The philosophies that were created during the classical age were expanded upon and become more detailed and fragmented into several different philosophies, religions and cults. While Europe was under a totalitarian Christian rule were every other religion was banned, SD thrived in terms of philosophies, religions and science in general. This marked the gradual start of "saturation of information", and prompted the king to declare an "official truth". The books were not banned, but the king declared that a book was "true" or "false". As various books said different things, people started to not know what was true or false, and that's why it was necessary to create the "official truth" from the king himself, so that if people wanted an answer, the king and the noble class of priests, philosophers and scientists could provide an answer (in exchange of a sum of money, of course, but it was very affordable!). Fiction kept expanding and becoming more detailed and fragmented as well. Some people started painting and developing new forms of art. New sports kept being created! It was definitely a cultural golden age! In the same period of time, Europe was governed by a totalitarian Christian environment (though the Inquisition didn't start yet, but Christianity was the only form of thought allowed!), and Islamic countries were certainly doing much better than Europe at that point, with the Islamic golden age where mathematicians, philosophers and scientists thrived, because the governments weren't super aggressive. In Islamic countries during that time, people copied ancient knowledge from the Greeks, Egyptians and other sources and translated it into Arabic, and produced new culture, while Europe was going through a culturally repressive age that discouraged scientific progress (there were some dissidents in Europe, mostly "Gnostic" but not only, but those were heavily persecuted and many of their beliefs have been lost and still remain inaccessible today, some of them only became recently accessible through the discovery of the Nag Hammadi texts). SD was the best of all three, because the culture (just like today in SD) felt very "experimental", people kept experimenting with beliefs, hypotheses, fictional genres and various things, producing an extremely abundant culture. The polytheistic religion continued, but the requirement of offering to the gods kept being required from less and less people, slowly becoming relegated to a special class of priests, especially from the 10th century onwards, whose entire job was to offer sacrifices to the gods (the gods were considered workers for half of the time too! and their role was to provide harvest, good luck etc. like in the ancient times). That meant, more and more people could avoid the requirement of offering to the gods, which meant more people could be "practically" atheist, not just in belief! There was a huge amount of different philosophies: atheism, mysotheism, pantheism, monotheism, hedonism, asceticism, veganism, vegetarianism, pacifism, war ideologies (promoting war for its own sake), idealism, materialism, relativism, absolutism etc. most of these existed already in the classical age, but in the cultural golden age they kept becoming more detailed and fragmented into multiple sub-philosophies. Math, astronomy, biology, medicine, travel etc. advanced at a very rapid pace! Clothings also diversified, initially the rich could afford expensive clothings, e.g. expensive bracelets, very colored and eccentric clothing etc. then gradually it became more affordable to the masses as well! Spices, salt, more diverse foods were starting to become available for the masses as well! There were still some famines occasionally but they didn't hit as hard as they did in the Bronze Age!
• Intercultural Golden Age (11th century C.E.-16th century C.E.): SD's had full contact with their neighboring continents: Sudhurland, Aurora, Borea etc. (I'll explain them in the geography in the future), Bore was not inhabited but the others were, and they traded and influenced each other culturally (though SD was more influenced by the others since it was not culturally repressive). New technologies kept being created at a vast pace: the printing press (which spread books and increased literacy rate to over 50%), faster and more efficient methods of travel by sea and land, and other technologies. Painting techniques became a lot more advanced, and books were often illustrated (though those books were more expensive compared to books without illustrations). Slavery was around 10% (at the beginning) to around 5/2% (at the end). Work roles kept being narrower, more specialized.
• Early modernity (17th century-20th century C.E.). Slavery was prohibited in the early 19th century, and immediately before, the percentage of slaves kept decreasing, but it was less than 1% by the mid-18th century. Even animals got better treatment, at least, compared to before. The scope of the animals during their "work time" decreased: they couldn't be tortured, but they could still be killed for meat. Electricity was discovered and new cool stuff was done!
• Contemporary SD (21th century): as described in the rest of the document. Oh, by the way, SD is not a vegetarian country (and this statement has priority over claims that say otherwise... I'll edit them in the future), but it will become vegetarian pretty soon (maybe in the 2050's?) due to animals' work scope becoming narrower and narrower, it will be forbidden from the 2050's (or perhaps a bit earlier) to kill animals for food, but for now you can still eat meat.

As said before, Demichronia is a fictional country where for (almost) every wish, there is at least one worker, building or product that can grant your wish. When people work, it's not that they have to satisfy every wish of every customer (for the reasons explained before), rather, every person (when they work) has a specific role: one person may be a plumber and another may be a cashier at the supermarket, and they must perform that specific role, and get paid to perform that role. As said before, you can't pay a plumber to kiss you passionately, or a cashier to fix the pipes in your house, because that's not their role. So, when one works, one has to perform a specific role, whereas when one is a customer, they can fulfill their wish, because for every wish, there's a worker with that specific role. With some limits regarding violence, death etc. I suppose. If roles were not so sandboxed, that would increase the Delta and cause asynchronicities, and "free time" wouldn't really be free. Demichronia makes sure that one's free time has pretty much no consequences on one's work time. The flag of Demichronia is the same as the polyamory flag.

The Demichronian government controls people not through censorship, but through saturation of information: in Demichronia, everything and its opposite is said by someone: there are, say, "infotainment industries" and as a result, every possible statement is said by someone, making it impossible for the average citizen to distinguish between truth and falsehood. This is where the Demichronian government comes in and "offers" an "official truth", which is supposed to be truthful. This is a control strategy that is the polar opposite of censorship, but perhaps just as effective, or perhaps even more effective, who knows. This makes the Demichronian government allow freedom of speech, because everything that is said is made useless, drowned in a sea of noise. That's the Demichronian government's strategy.

Fact-checking and content warnings in Demichronia are more pedantic than the ones contained in Gaia, but the content itself is always fully available. There are also censored versions of media but of course they're optional, they're available for people who don't want to see certain scenes or types of content. Both censored and non-censored versions of media exist, depending on the preferences of the customer, and one is fully free to choose which one to see. Media often has fact-checking, content warnings, "context" and other forms of notes provided by a centralized authority. One example is the versions of the Quran with illustrations in various styles. Iconography is haram in Islam, and yet the Quran with illustrations necessarily exists in Demichronia (because every wish needs to have the potential to be fulfilled, so there's a great abundance and variety of products and services). However, on the back of the book, there's "context" that the Demichronian government requires to add. That context says that iconography is forbidden in Islam, and that the book in question simply exists as a customized product. It also adds that for a more authentic, halal experience, one must buy a version of Quran without illustrations. This information may be useful to Muslims who live in Demichronia, and also for people who want a more "authentic" experience. As for the content itself, the Demichronian government even when it disagrees with an ideology (and it may even specifically say so, in case the ideology is mostly descriptive rather than normative), it still explains whether or not the book or media one is buying represents that ideology accurately. Another thing is the "disclaimers", for example in games like Need for Speed, where it says that street racing is illegal, and encourages people to drive carefully and wear seat belts. The same happens in Demichronia, of course. For interactive digital media (e.g. videogames), such warnings are opt-out, they can be disabled in the settings if one does not want to see them, but they are necessarily displayed for the first time that one plays that game. From the second time on, it's up to the player to decide whether or not to see those warnings.

As for saturation of information, think about this: if everything and its opposite is said about, say, every politician, e.g. accusing them of every possible crime, praising them of every possible good action (even - but not only - when blatantly absurd), and making all possible neutral statements about them, then freedom of speech is possible, but statements don't mean anything at all, they are no longer credible, because everyone expects that everything is said about every politician, and possibly every celebrity. This permits the government of propagating their "official truth", which is the only one that is supposed to be trustworthy, as every other source combined is basically white noise. This is how the Demichronian government controls information. As you can see, it doesn't use censorship, but its complete opposite.

Even doxxing is usually allowed in Demichronia. How? Because there are agencies tasked with mass-creating millions of fake doxxing texts for pretty much every individual who lives in Demichronia. All of those texts contain randomly generated information, different for each text. This means that when someone sees a doxxing text, the likelihood that it contains truthful information is extremely low. So that means, when someone doxxes someone else, even when the information is truthful, that information will just be assumed to be false, so it won't cause damage. As for "context" about doxxing texts, the government simply says "we're not allowed to tell you if this text is true, but we can tell you that the likelihood of this text being true is extremely low". The Demichronian government calls this "security by obfuscation". With these kinds of techniques, the need for censorship drops to a minimum.

Schools in Demichronia mostly serve the purpose of training young people to become good workers. More detailed information coming soon!

Information centers in Demichronia are centers when one can express a wish, and then the staff in that information center will tell the customer which building/worker/service/etc. can fulfill that wish. Not only that, but also, let's say that a customer expresses a wish to watch a movie with a specific plot: the staff at the information center will tell one or more titles with that plot (if they exist, but Demichronia is such that the level of variety is extreme, and there is very little censorship, so in most cases, unless the request is extremely specific, the movie very likely already exists). Basically, the role of the information center is to provide information as to how to fulfill a wish, and/or who (what building/worker/etc.) can fulfill that wish. If the wish is item-related, then the information center will explain where to find that item and what that item is.

NOTE: these lists are NOT exhaustive! By far! I'll list lots of things (especially those that I find interesting, unusual or otherwise creative) but it can't be everything, because the list would be pretty much endless!

Note: because of the system "everything you want happens during your free time (as long as you pay the appropriate amount of money)", the selection of things (e.g food, games, movies, activities etc.) is pretty much endless, as long as those things weren't the result of abusing humans or animals. Here I'll have to explain what "modularity" means: things are seen as components of interchangeable parts, which allows to maximize individual personalization of things. That means, the variety of things (food, games, movies, activities, everything really) feels endless, and the things listed in the lists below are simply random ideas that popped up in my mind, they don't represent even a tiny fraction of what's available in Demichronia! However, in Demichronia, there are alternatives to meat that taste pretty much exactly like actual meat, so if one wishes to eat that, it's available! Note: whenever I say "v-meat", or "v-[animal]" (e.g. "v-chicken") what is meant is something that has the same taste and consistency, and if possible, very or at least somewhat similar nutritional values. Actual meat is legal in Demichronia for pragmatic reasons but it technically goes against the principles, so the government will ban it in 2050! However, even after 2050, since wishes must be fulfilled as much as possible, the closest sensorial experience to the expressed wish must be provided. I'm aware it's possible since I've eaten vegan/vegetarian food that taste pretty much undistinguishable from actual meat. I don't know how it's produced exactly, but it can be done, so this aspect of Demichronia realistic and immersive enough to keep the suspension of disebelief.

Food: all food (vegetarian or otherwise) you can think of exists in Demichronia, and it's easily accessible regardless of where you are!

-Lemon juice
-Lytchee juice
-Sour candies (with varying degrees of sourness)
-Rice with curry
-V-meat that was created without killing animals: equivalents of dog meat, cat meat, bugs, rats, snakes, scorpions etc. as well as foods that include v-meat in it, e.g. cheeseburgers etc.
-All sorts of snacks (e.g. Tortillas, of various tastes e.g. chili, curry, vinegar chips etc. anything)
-Street food exists in at least one street per settlement.
-Pig v-meat (or even actual pig meat) with disturbing gore art drawn on the package, art depicting pigs brutally killed and bleeding. Since this art is disturbing and if someone doesn't want to see it they should be able to not see it, perhaps there are dedicated sections with disturbing illustrations in dedicated sections of the supermarket.
-Regular fruit and vegetables, e.g. lemons, oranges, tangerines, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes, bananas, strawberries, cherries, watermelons, grapes, melons, pears, apples, cabbage, broccoli, pineapple, etc.
-Until 2050: meat of all kinds, including dog meat, cat meat, snakes, bugs, scorpions, crocodiles etc. and foods that contain it, e.g. hamburgers, kebab, etc.
-"Cola" (not necessarily Coca-Cola, even just Cola made by Demichronian brands) of various tastes: standard, lemon, cherry, sour, super sour, watermelon, strawberry, alcoholic cola etc.
-Udon noodles with vegetables, or with vegetables and eggs.

Each food can have various different illustrations written on the package, e.g. lemon juice with an anime girl drawn on it, and she wears a bra with two lemons drawn on her bra! Or burritos with Far West aesthetics drawings on the package! Liquid (e.g. water, juice, alcohol etc.) containers can have different shapes and colors, too! They can range from transparent all the way to opaque, and different colors, and different art drawn on the container!

Games:

-Various crazy fan-made ports (e.g. Tekken 6 for the PS2)
-Fan-games, modded games, ROM HACKS (of any console, from the NES... including PS5 games! No limits (though, due to technology, there is a distinction between pre-AI era and AI era). Copyright-wise: fan games are allowed, even to be sold, but part of the income must be redirected to the original IP holders. The more different the derivative game is from the original, the lesser the amount of money will go to the original IP holders. More detailed information about copyright coming soon!
-Tekken All-Stars: a Tekken game with all characters, all stages and all-mini games from all Tekken games! Crow, Jinpachi, Nancy-MI847J, Azazel, Devil Kazumi, Angel Jin etc. are also playable! Tag mode (with two or even three characters) is available but optional.
-Furry porn games set in Ancient Athens. Some characters swear they had sex with Pan (the god of the wilderness), or with minotaurs, or other strange beasts. Be careful who you tell that to, because in ancient athens there was democracy, so if most people wanted to put you to death, you'll die, and it's Game Over and you have to start over from the last savepoint.

Content:

Important note: it just occurred to me that the content I post on the philosophy section of this website, that is, where I say everything and its opposite about as many concepts as possible, is pretty much a summary of part of what can be found on Demichronia, except that in this website it's without the "official truth context note", that is, if I say "the sky is green" somewhere on this website, I'm not going to say "this is false" below (except in a specific page). So, basically, accessing content in Demichronia is like accessing every possible statement, except that you know what is true and what is false, because the government does tell you. However, without that context, you wouldn't be able to tell what's true or false. I find this concept to be very interesting!

-TV channels about pretty much anything you can think of. Not to mention the Internet!
-Blogs, videos etc. about anything!
-An anime-style show set in a supermarket. Mostly realistic, but there are some supernatural elements, which only some characters are aware about. Most of the people and characters believe that is simply a normal supermarket.

Technology:

-Flip-phones of all kinds
-Javascript-free Internet (for those who prefer it, but there's also normal Internet with Javascript)
-Customizable themes (for websites and OS)
-Versions of websites optimized for very old hardware. Those websites are mostly just text-only. There are also text-only browsers (like Lynx in Gaia). There are also "almost-only text" browsers, which display only text, but you can click on "display images" and it will display images, with an option to resize them down to 144p resolution. It displays nothing else, though.

Stuff:

-Plushies of pretty much anything you can think of
--Fetish plushies of various things, including monster-girls etc. may also be a hybrid plushie/sex-toy.
-Any clothing you want e.g. you can dress as a penguin, you can wear whatever you want, and clothing shops have *lots* of stuff, anything you want!
-An automatic fruit juice extractor: you put the fruit (without the peel if it's not edible and/or if you don't want the peel juice, of course!) inside and it extracts as much juice as possible! E.g. you put an orange in there (without the peel, of course) and you get the juice, no manual work needed!
-A toy about a hand that does the middle finger and comes out of a toilet, and can reproduce "fuck you" in various languages by pressing a button on its remote (that contains various flags that represent languages).
-Books of the Bible and the Quran (and other religious/philosophical books) with illustrations in every aesthetic, including those generally not associated with religion and philosophy, like Corporate Memphis and anime style. A Quran with illustrations would be haram due to iconography, but it wouldn't contradict the axiom of Demichronia, which is basically "(almost) everything you can think of is available to obtain and/or experience in your free time, as there is at least one worker whose job is to fulfill that specific type of wish". In case of physical items or piece of media, there is at least one person whose job is to produce that, in case of "live" services (e.g. having sex with a sex worker, going to the restaurant, going to the cinema, going to the dentist or any other doctor, paying a plumber to fix the broken pipes in your house, live speeches and conferences, theater etc.), there is at least one person whose job is to provide that experience. This disregards the internal coherence of any ideology outside of the Demichronic axiom: Islam is against iconography, and yet such book (Quran with illustrations) must exist, by definition, due to the axiom of Demichronia. However, the role of the government (and schools) is to provide context, that's why in Demichronian media there are often "trigger warnings" and the like, or additional context. Of course, especially in digital media, such trigger warnings can be removed or modified by the user, because everyone has different sensibilities and it wouldn't make sense to have a "one size fits all" approach to that. In the case of a Quran with illustrations, the context provided by the government (perhaps on the back of the book, so a buyer can know the important information) would be something like "iconography is forbidden in Islam: what you're reading is a customized product that conflicts with Islamic principles. By buying this book you confirm that you understand this. If you want a version of the Quran that is in line with Islamic principles, please buy one without illustrations". By adding context, the government provides important relevant informations. This also means that in social media, posts have the "fact-check" information below, like social media used to have a few years ago (and probably have now, but I generally don't use social media so I can't confirm 100%). Some people have called it, as well as trigger warnings, "censorship" but I completely disagree: the content is fully available, there's just context added on it. Whether or not you agree with the context provided is a different matter, but the content is fully available. Plus, in Demichronia, you can turn the fact-checking off if you find it annoying or distracting, but you can always turn it back on in case you need the "official truth" on a post. In a society like Demichronia, where pretty much everything and its opposite is available to buy, context provided by an "official" source is very important, otherwise you'd literally have no idea if something you read on the Internet or on books is true or not! And this, by the way, as mentioned before, is how the Demichronian government controls information. Not through censorship but through saturation of information. That is, if everything and its opposite is said by someone, one cannot know what is true and what is not true. It's possible (perhaps likely) that people won't care, and that they'll just believe in stuff that confirms their biases, but at least the government provides their truth, in case someone wants it. It also provides what I call "context" (e.g. fact-checking and trigger warnings, but the content itself remains fully available to experience). However, in case of fact-checking and trigger warnings online, those can be turned off if one wants that, so it won't distract from the "browsing experience". They can be turned on and off as one wishes, and trigger warnings can even be customized e.g. if one is more sensitive to certain things and not others, then trigger warnings can be customized. It's a modular thing, of course. Fact-checking can be customized but only in this manner: you can specify what ideology you follow, e.g. Christianity, Islam, Stoicism, whatever... and it can give you information about content related to that ideology, e.g. if that stuff is allowed in that ideology or not. Before advanced AI, simple keyword-based algorithms could be used, for instance, if a post contained "beer" and one used the option of ideological fact-checking saying one was Christian or a Muslim, then it could display a message saying "Context: alcohol is forbidden in the worldview you have selected" or something along those lines. With a huge amount of "noisy" information, Demichronia "labels" content in order for it to be found more effectively. It's how search engines used to work in the 2000's, before SEO spam, sponsored results and the like.
-A Sudoku with hentai illustrations.
-Variation of the above (it's pretty fun): A Sudoku with three different difficulties: easy, medium and hard. In the easy ones, the illustrations are normal anime characters (they can be male, female, something more ambiguous, furries, aliens etc. depending on the tastes, after all, Demichronia can fulfill pretty much any desire), in the medium ones, the illustrations are ecchi (not sexually explicit, but "teasing"), whereas in the hard ones, the illustrations are hentai (sexually explicit).
-A small lavender-scented plushie that you can warm up in the microwave oven and it stays warm for a while (pssst... they exist in Gaia, too, I have one!)

Activities:

-Violent IRL shows, like a modern day Colosseum: customer pay to participate, and other customers pay to watch. All-consensual (I suppose there are people who want to participate and even pay for that! If not, then no violent IRL shows... there are certain things that if too extreme, Demichronia cannot guarantee that they can be fulfilled)
-Street fights: either, if the fighters are workers, the fights are fake or physical damage is pretty much non-existent... of if they fighters are customers... then the customers can decide up to what level of damage they want to risk being subjected to... and other customers who are interested in the fight may watch the fight.
-Fetish centers (e.g. where one can smell a girl's feet or farts if they want to, or have sex with people in furry costumes), sex work of all kinds.
-Street food where you can eat all sorts of stuff, including v-meat or even actual meat of cats, dogs, bugs, rats, snakes, scorpions etc.
-You can pay for friends (and partners). Yeah. But because the role ("delta") must be as narrow as realistically possible, not all professional companions offer the same "services", so you need to express your wish more specifically and then you'll get a professional friend that can do what you want. E.g. some may be physically lazy and won't do sports with you, but they may chat or listen to you, and others vice-versa, they may play sports or games (e.g. videogames, tabletop games, cards etc.) with you but won't do "emotional support". Each professional friend, just like every worker, has their own role, since different people are good at different things. Every person's good qualities are valued and used in Demichronia, whenever economically feasible. You can treat a professional friend badly, but only some of them, and only if they specifically offer "being treated badly" as part of their service! It's likely there won't be many of those, so the price may be very high, and not very affordable. Those people that offer that service are selected for their emotional resilience, and the majority of professional friends don't offer "being treated badly" as a service!
-Places where you can pay to set things on fire. I call them "Pyromaniac fun centers".
-Water parks
-"Mud parks"(?): like water parks but with mud instead of water!
-Strip clubs where you can play billiard, watch semi-naked women (or even totally naked... or men even), and drink alcoholic cocktails, or playing poker or do some other gambling activities. The building is full of neon lights, both outside and inside. It creates a certain, specific aesthetics, perhaps reminiscent of some Las Vegas buildings. I don't know the name of that specific aesthetics, I'd have to research it, but I think I've expressed the concept clearly. Of course, there are places for every aesthetic thinkable!
-Kart racing.
-Places where you pay to destroy things (rage rooms)
-You can pay someone to tell you a "bedtime story". Now, telling people "bedtime stories" is an incredibly specific job, so it's likely those workers do some other, somewhat related things as well, perhaps companionship-related, like chatting? But not too dissimilar from the basic concept of telling people bedtime stories, or telling people stories in general, or keeping people company before they fall asleep, like perhaps in a hotel? like... idk... ASMR experience in hotels? Or not necessarily ASMR but company-related, something like that.
-Outdoor public discussion forums. All the customers are consensual, of course OuO. There are workers who either play a role in the discussion (and in that case they may be experts at that topic), or act as moderators etc.
-You can find a "community" for anything! Of course, there is a distinction in the roles of the workers (e.g. the staff of that community) and the other customers, and I'll explain it in more detail eventually.
-Maid cafe with barely dressed (or even nude) girls/guys serving you food. These places are 18+. They can also be clothed if the customer wants to, and for each type of clothing, there is at least one worker that will wear it for you.
-"Clubs" where one's own biases can be fed... an offline echo chamber, basically. The club managers may or may not actually believe in those biases (though I guess they usually do, unless it's some extremely specific ideology, in that case it's a personalized service offered to just one individual, or the few who believe it), but they do that for money... it's their job to provide that service to the customers! E.g. "white supremacy clubs", from "white" (of European descent, I suppose) immigrants (from Gaia) who are basically grifters. I don't know what the ethnic composition of Demichronia would be (though it's most likely multiethnic, so the axiom can be better fulfilled), it's not important, but I guess that somehow, a significant number of people from Gaia managed to migrate to there, idk. Not just "white supremacy", of course, that's just one example... there are "clubs" for EVERY ideology, hobby and interest! And every aesthetic, as well! So, some may prefer hanging around people who have a certain aesthetics (e.g. 1980's rock aesthetics, or furry aesthetics) without having to commit to any idea or activity, just for the aesthetics, and there is a "club" for them. Of course, they must pay to join and stay. There may be other customers in those clubs, who are in no circumstance obligated to please other customers. In case no other customer wants to do activities with a certain customer, some of the workers of that club (whose job is to interact with people who want interaction) will do that, in order to assure every customer is always pleased and entertained, and never feel excluded.
-Copyright is more flexible, fan arts for money exist, but they have to pay a certain percentage to the original IP holders. The entertainment industry in Demichronia is HUGE (to cater to the tastes of as many customers as possible, even the most obscure niches have tons of content in Demichronia).
-You can buy and use drugs, any drug, even hard ones. If that's what you want to do in your free time...
-There is plenty of super blasphemous content, like, "Prophet Muhammad drowning in piss", either drawings, animated movies etc. Or "Jesus being penetrated by Shrek" etc. But there's also lots of "halal" content in media, or halal food in supermarkets etc. the point is that every taste and preference is satisfied. If someone likes blasphemous content, there is plenty of that, if someone is a Christian or a Muslim, there's also plenty of stuff that respects your values and it's easy to follow your restrictions. There's also plenty of kosher food etc.
-Themed parks (e.g. dinosaur themed)
-"Relax centers" where one can go after job, to relax from the stress of one's job.
-You can go play Dungeon and Dragons (you pay for it, of course!), the other people in your party playing with you are either other customers, or workers that get paid to play with customers... or a mix of both! The Dungeon Master is usually almost always a worker, I suppose!
-Nudist beaches.
-Astronomic observatory where you can use an advanced telescope to see the Moon up close (and perhaps Saturn if the telescope is advanced enough?).
-Competition of racist jokes/sentences. You pay to join the competition, against lots of other participants, and whoever says the most offensive thing wins a prize. The interesting thing is that Demichronia is structured in a way such as it's very unlikely to "accidentally stumble upon" something you don't like. It's possible that there may be a specific urban and building geometry that maximizes this characteristic.
-Games similar to Takeshi's Castle, which you can pay to participate in. Winners may get a prize. There are also TV shows about that.
-Practice Yoga.
-Water parks.
-You can pay to participate in an IRL game where you are a detective and have to find out a "criminal" (it's not real, just a game, an act... but it can be fun for some!).
-Videogame competitions/tournaments!
-A fun indoor park similar in some ways to the Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII.
-Disco with music in it, and there may be several activities.
-Cinema.
-Going to the beach. Likely free to just go to a beach, but the various activities available (and there are likely many! perhaps beach volley and others) are accessible through payment.
-Live concerts of every type of music you can think of!
-Karaoke.
-Various festivals.
-You can easily ride a bike if you want, there are bike lanes everywhere!
-Shopping!!! (supermarkets in Demichronia have pretty much everything, lmao!)
-Cosplay festivals
-A place where you can interact with a (fictional) group of fairies in a forest! The forest is real, the "fairies" are just girls (or guys, too) in fairy costumes role-playing as fairies for the customers' entertainment. Some of the "fairies" may offer sexual services. If not, then it's surely possible to pay someone to wear a fairy costume, go to a place in a forest, and offer the sexual service, or even just a romantic one. There are people whose job is "cosplay sex worker", and basically they're like sex workers but they also do cosplays and roleplays. A normal sex worker may not offer that specific service, I suppose. Every worker has their own role, it cannot be too broad.
-Go see a physical original size recreation of Peach's castle of Super Mario 64. It's likely a very attractive tourist attraction. What is the relationship with Nintendo, or whether Nintendo would allow it, is undefined. It's possible that the owners of the museum pay a royalty to Nintendo, or that Demichronia has its own laws regarding copyright and they don't have to abide by international copyright laws necessarily (though that may lead to economic sanctions against Demichronia). Idk, I may decide eventually, but one thing's sure: the castle DOES exist in Demichronia! The relationships that Demichronia has with Nintendo and the rest of Gaia are speculative, but it's very likely that they won't be too good, because Demichronian laws/ideology/culture violates several International Treaties of Gaia (e.g. the treaty that criminalizes drugs). So it's likely that economic relationships between Demichronia and Gaia are rather difficult. In any case, if Gaia doesn't allow its content on Demichronia, then Demichronia pirates and creates derivative content from Gaia, by definition.
-A penis museum. A museum that displays mummified penises of various animals, including a mummified penis of a human from ancient Demichronia, and in the museum there are texts on the walls with explanations about penises in general, or some "fun facts" about penises.
-For those who like to vandalize buildings' walls with text or other stuff through spray paint: there are buildings made specifically for that. You pay, and for a set time you can have a certain portion of a wall that is "yours" to "decorate" with whatever text or symbol or drawing you want (even with all profanities and offensive stuff you want, if that's what you want). You pay for the service and, if you don't have a spray paint bottle with you, you are offered one (or more than one, with different colors), but that also costs additional money. As a result of the existence of this service, some buildings in Demichronia, or rather, some parts of the city have "vandalized" walls, though this is intentional. Most parts of the city are devoid of such "decorated" walls, however. It's only some parts of the city that have those, to emanate a certain aesthetics.
-Churches, mosques, synagogues, Buddhist temples, Satanic temples, Neo-Pagan plages of worship (of all kinds) etc. as well as modular buildings for worship of minority religions or even religions made up and believed by a single individual. In the modular places of worship, the "priest" or otherwise the people working in it will adapt on a customer by customer case. If an individual has made up their own religion, they can send the description of the religion and description of the request (of what the worker(s) should do) to the worker(s) of that modular place of worship, and the worker(s) will do as told by the customer. In exchange of money, of course.. all places of worship, including mosques, Christian churches etc. cost money to enter and participate, though cheap enough a minimum wage worker can afford to go there every day.
-"Cuddle Therapy".
-Asking someone (a professional companion) to watch a movie with you, in exchange of money. Note that each professional companion may have limits regarding the content of the movie you want to watch with them, e.g. if the professional companion finds that movie offensive or otherwise uncomfortable, they won't offer that service. However, for every movie, there must be at least one worker you can pay to watch that movie with you!
-If you feel undecided about something, you can go to an expert of the subject of the thing that you're undecided about, and let them make the choice for you. For people who are terrified of making their own choices in life, this can feel convenient. You can of course choose the "type" of advice you get. You can get, say, "official truth advice", advice based on a centralized, official truth provided by the government, but you can also select "ideology advice", that is, let's say you're a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a minimalist, a Stoic etc. you can get advice based on those ideologies too, if that's what you ask for!
-Cool example of the above: the Ephemeral Space. It's a place that is designed to look like a liminal space where people go for a brief period of time and then they leave. In that place there are various people (workers) who you can talk to. Each of them represents an archetype, ideology, personality or attitude, and each of them answers your questions in a different manner, similar to my philosophy pages where I list as many viewpoints as possible. When you finally get as many answers as possible, you may have different reactions: confusion ("which of these is the right answer? What should I do?") or liberation ("there's no right answer, after all, it depends on your perspective"), or some other feeling. The place of course can have varying aesthetics (everything can have varying aesthetics in Demichronia), but I think a sci-fi/fantasy/liminal aesthetics would fit!

Jobs (may be "normal" jobs as well as jobs that don't exist anywhere else): (P.S. possible outcome... very low unemployment rates? I'm not sure...). Note: every worker has their own job, and they offer that service, and not other services. For almost every wish, there is someone whose job is to fulfill that specific type of wish.

-Plumber (you fix tubes in one's house etc. exactly like the rest of the world)
-Cashier in a restaurant
-Sex worker
-Drug worker
-Countability section (for money, business etc.)
-Chef or waiter/waitress in a restaurant.
-"Professional friend/partner" (even sexual partner). That's a thing in Demichronia.
-Those who clean up the mess in the "Pyromaniac fun center" (the centers where people can light things on fire in a safe, controlled environment). Or those who guarantee safety in those centers (they are experts in how fire works and propagates, and are able and paid to quickly extinguish a fire if things get out of control).
-Those who manage the outdoor forum discussions (they also must be well-knowledgeable about the topic of the discussions... PhD-level degree required?)
-"Club" manager.
-You can be paid to tell people bedtime stories in Demichronia (ASMR-like experience?). Of course, it's better if you're skilled at that. Good voice intonation etc. but there are schools courses made specifically for that: to train you to act friendly or in various manners, or to have various voice intonations... which can provide a more fun experience to customers.
-Voice actor/actress. Programmer/designer. Cartoonist etc. all the jobs required to create anime/cartoons and videogames.
-You can sell drugs. Even hard drugs. Cashier at that "drug store" or someone who produces/cultivates drugs. Since all drugs are legal and regulated in Demichronia, the quality of the drugs is higher. I mean, drugs are still dangerous because, well... they're drugs, duh! But at least a heroin addict won't accidentally get addicted to Fentanyl, unlike in countries where drugs are illegal (and therefore zero regulation). Drug-related crimes are also very low in Demichronia since it's all legal and regulated (no rival drug gangs conflicts, for example).

Schools in Demichronia often have the same subjects as schools elsewhere, but they are particularly focused on preparing students for to become good workers:

Work. One has to study psychology, physics, mathematics, history, programming classes etc. just like everywhere else, but there's a focus on making the subjects relatable to prepare the students for work, e.g. psychology can be associated with having to please customers, physics can be associated with building things, or working with substances, or other things, programming classes may prepare a student to work on software development etc. basically subjects are, whenever possible, associated with possible work uses. Of course, in practice, this likely wouldn't be too different from Gaian schools!

This makes schools in Demichronia quite pragmatic and efficient! Also, students get paid if they pass a test! The higher the grade, the higher that student gets paid! They don't get paid a lot, like, not like a full job, but it's more than enough for entertainment. School hours are roughly from about 8:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. five days a week but there is a hour-long pause for lunch around 11:30 to 12:30 where they can pay for school lunch food and also there are various games (both physical and video games) and leisure activities (which I may list eventually) a student can pay to access during the 'school free-time'. School tests don't have a 'maximum level of difficulty', regardless of the class you are in, the better you are at a subject, the more difficult the tests you'll have to do will be, and the more you'll get paid. Some students are really good at certain subjects! Students are given learning material (e.g. books, lessons) for free, but they have to pay for lunch and optional leisure activities (I mean, lunch is also technically optional, but it's not the best idea to skip meals... but on the other hand, you can bring your lunch from home!), and they get paid if they pass tests! Students don't have to wear a uniform, because in Demichronia, any coercion is seen as "work", so the student would have to get paid to wear the uniform, and that wouldn't make much sense economically! They are just coerced to go to school (to be physically present there, but they don't get paid for that, just like one does not get paid just to be physically present at their work building), study and do the tests. If they pass the tests, they get money. The higher the grade, the more money they'll get. Leisure activities available at Demichronian schools during the lunch break (the list is NOT exhaustive by any means, as there's LOTS of stuff there!) (P.S. you have to pay for EVERY activity you participate in during the school break!):

-Lunch. You can order any food you want there (it doesn't have to be "healthy", either, though you do get a description of the nutritional values, allergens etc. but then the choice is up to the student). -Video games (though you have to pay to play them, just like every other activity during lunch break, including the lunch food itself)
-Physical games (e.g. sports, card games that can be played in less than one hour, and other stuff, I guess)
-A place where you can either (list in increasing order of cost): read a book during the break, or rent the book for some time (so you can read it at home), or even buy the book permanently! Not just books, but also movies, videogames (as I said before), music (with headphones or headphones, otherwise the logistics of pleasing everyone would become rather difficult), and other forms of media!
-A sort of "club" where people (workers) say stuff like "tired of school rules? come here, then!". In that place you can do a lot of stuff: swear, say offensive things, there's even a "rage room" where you can destroy stuff, insult any teacher that you don't like! Only behind their backs though, because the teachers' job is to teach, not to be insulted! It's not allowed to be disrespectful to teachers!. Of course, teachers cannot mistreat students either. There must be reciprocal respect between students and teachers, at least when they're interacting with each other. Of course, in the rebel club, a student can insult a teacher if the student wants, but NEVER in front of the teacher! The school logic mimicks that of the broader Demichronian society: students are like workers, they go to school under coercion (like in Gaia), and therefore that cannot be considered "free time", but "work time", and students get paid for their "work" (i.e. passing tests). During lunch break, students are like customers, and they can spend the money that they either received from the tests or got from their parents for the lunch food and leisure activities. They can also save it and use that money outside of school (e.g. to buy a videogame, or a phone, or some cool stuff, or go to a restaurant, whatever they want), of course! Oh, also, in this "rebel club", the more "rebellious" you behave, the more compliments you will get from... well, the people who get paid to run the club, of course! The compliments are something along the lines that you're "cool" or something like that, to play on the rebel aesthetics. This may please teenagers and, perhaps more importantly for the Demichronian government, it brings money!
-Other stuff (I'll have to think about it!)

Subjects and ratings in schools:

As said earlier, schools in Demichronia are mostly oriented towards teaching students how to learn to perform various jobs (as many different jobs as possible). Since everyone is better at different things compared to other people (you shouldn't judge a fish on how good it is at flying, after all), the better one is at a certain subject, the more difficult those tests will get, and the higher that student will get paid. There's another benefit of being good at a subject: for instance, if a student eventually becomes good enough at medicine-related subjects, that student will get a license to be a doctor, and so on. Tests do not have the same difficulty for the everyone, the difficulty depends on how good the student is at that thing, and students are valued and encouraged to get better at everything, while keeping in mind that everyone is better at certain things than others, that not everyone is good at the same things or have the same skills. It's of course not mandatory to get high grades at everything, but it's encouraged to be very good in at least one thing. Of course, if one is good at more than one thing, it's even better! Schools are basically training camps for "future workers", in many senses. Tests are mandatory for most (but not all) subjects, but it's not mandatory to be good at them. The main objective of tests is to see what a specific student is best at, as that may become the job of that person. Not necessarily, of course. Sometimes people choose their jobs, sometimes not, depending on the market. Doing the test itself is mandatory, and if a test is passed successfully, the next tests of that subject will become more difficult, and the student gets paid more, and may get some benefits in terms of work e.g. after a certain level of medicine-related skills is surpassed, that person will get a license to work as a doctor, though that level for doctors is reached at university-levels, since lots of things need to be known and being a doctor is a huge responsibility, but other jobs may be easier to be allowed to do, depending on the characteristics of the job. If a test is not passed successfully, no big deal happens, the test will have to be done again, but it's never mandatory to pass it successfully, it's just mandatory to do the test. It's even possible to fail the same test over and over again since first grade to 12th grade and, even though that's quite the extreme failure, it's not mandatory to pass it, ever. However, you don't get any money from that test if you fail it. Again, tests mainly have the purpose of seeing what a specific student is best at. Some subjects are not mandatory, though for now I won't list which ones, since I haven't decided. There's no limit to how difficult tests can become, so someone who is very, very good at something can get to very high levels and get paid a lot. Tests and classes are not determined by age but by the skills a student has in that specific subject. Here I'll try to list the subjects that one can learn at school. I'll look at the list of activities and jobs and try to think of what skills may be required to perform those jobs. Note that subjects often (but not always) have both theory and practice tests:

-Cooking classes. From the basics to extremely complex and difficult dishes. Works: chef etc.
-How to grow crops. From basic concepts to growing difficult crops and advanced concepts. Works: farmer etc.
-Mathematics. Works: various (maths is much more important than many people think, actually!)
-Psychology. Works: various (not just psychologist... psychology is also very important!)
-Software development.
-Writing classes and reading comprehension. It also includes being able to create texts with various biases, one for example may be tasked to write a text on a certain topic with positive, neutral and negative biases, explaining various types of biases, framing, biases created not just by wording but also in which order the information is presented (anchoring effect, priming effect etc. which can be connected with things learned in psychology classes). As per the usual rule, the better one is at writing texts of various kinds, including fictional and non-fictional texts, the higher one gets paid. Works: book writer, journalist, script writer (e.g. for movies), bias rater etc.
-Physics. Very important for many things!
-Music (both theory and practice).
-Acting and voice acting.
-Physical activity (e.g. sports)
-Art of various kinds: not just drawing but also sculpting, music, creating video games, creating clothing (e.g. knitting) etc.
-Sociology, history, linguistics, philosophy, religions etc.
-How to operate various house instruments e.g. ovens, dishwashers, washing machines etc. Works: there are people who get paid to do that, e.g. for disabled or extremely busy people, and in general they're good skills to have.
-How to play various games, including videogames. Works: some people may want to pay specifically to play against competitive and skilled players, and an average 'professional companion' may not necessarily qualify, so being good at playing videogames may be a good skill to have! It's also good for one's cognitive abilities, but schools don't care about that, they only care about training workers. But since being a skilled player at certain games is a job, well... that also means it's a subject at schools! Of course, this is one of those subjects that are not mandatory, because for example, people with severe photosensitive epilepsy may not be able to play videogames, and the more severe the issue, the less the variety of videogames that person can play. Just like cooking, where one person may be allergic to certain foods, some things are not mandatory or will be at least modified depending on the needs of that individual.
-Laws and economics.
-Geography.
-Tourist attractions of various places e.g. to be a tourist guide.
-Basic emergency life-saving techniques.
-How to perform massages (maybe this subject is only for adult students? idk...)
-Informations about various products just in case one's job will be selling them and giving informations to the customers.
-How to create physical objects of various kinds e.g. chairs, phones etc.
-Cleaning and tidying a place. E.g. in case someone will work as one that cleans up the mess in pyromaniac fun centers. The faster and better job, the higher the student will get paid, and will have to tidy "more difficult" places to tidy, created specifically as tests, with increasing levels of difficulty, to test the tidying skills of the student.
-How to safely operate industrial machinery.
-Learning foreign languages, e.g. in order to be a translator, either real time or for various pieces of media. Note that Demichronia has its own language, and I'm creating it. A loglang, to be more precise. I may post it on this website sooner or later, it's relatively developed already, at least for the basics.
-Etc.

The theory lessons and tests look quite similar to Gaian schools, but not identical, whereas the practice is more varied. Students are required to perform tests for most subjects but are not required to pass them. If one passes a test, the next test of that subject will become more difficult, whereas if one fails a test, the test will have to be done again, but at no point is it mandatory to pass it, ever. The information of which subjects that a specific student will become best at, will be valued and taken into consideration. Note that subjects are modular, so if one passes a specific part of a test, that specific part of the test will become more difficult next times, whereas the parts of the test that were failed will be presented again with the same difficulty in the next test.

Something interesting about school tests is that the only thing that matters is that the students get the right answers and have understood how to perform the task, so apart from cheating, the tests themselves, as long as they ask the correct questions, have the right difficulty etc. can vary! For example, in Demichronia there are "educational videogames", of an incredible amount of variety! For example, there are RPG videogames where in order to attack the enemy you must answer correctly to a math question. The more powerful the enemy, the more difficult the math questions become. If you answer incorrectly, the enemy will deal you damage. You defeat enemies and get more experience as you proceed. A student can request these "gamified" tests and, if the students passes without cheating, and if the questions asked are relevant and with the right difficulty, that is considered to be a valid test. Of course, the test must be done in class, in front of the teacher, to avoid cheating, but students can absolutely request a test like that! There are a lot of videogames like those in Demichronia (for a lot of different subjects!), and teachers, if students ask, can give handheld consoles with those games in it. The role of a student is simply to perform tests and pass them as often and successfully as possible, the student has no other role, so uniforms, useless formal rules etc. are not required for any student! Tests are simply questions about certain topics and with a certain difficulty, the aesthetics that accompany those questions is considered irrelevant, the only thing that matters are the questions themselves, and if the student answers them correctly, it's considered to be a valid test!

In Demichronia, there are plenty of media "promoting/descripting" "modular ideologies". Modular ideologies are syncretic/eclectic ideologies, religions, worldviews, philosophies, political ideologies etc. that contain components of different ideologies. Mixtures, basically. Ideologies can also be mixed with various aesthetics to create uncommon combinations e.g. media promoting conservative Christianity with Corporate Memphis aesthetics, or so-called "woke" (late 2010's/2020's) ideologies that, instead of Corporate Memphis, flat/minimalistic design, protest art, or various pride flags etc. they may style their message with Renaissance paintings, for example. The point is that not only the various ideologies can combine ideas, but also aesthetics! These are what modular ideologies are! I'll make more examples soon!

By the way, if you're interested in seeing what conservative Christianity with Corporate Memphis aesthetics looks like, here's an X account of mine where I did precisely that!. Keep in mind that conservative Christianity is completely antithetical to my own beliefs, so it's not what I personally believe, but nonetheless I think I did a good job at sounding realistic, as if that account was run by a person who actually had those beliefs. I guess I'm pretty skilled at being ideologically Turing capable, lol. That is an account I only used one day in September 2024 and I used it as a "proof of concept" purely to see what such content would look like. The result is... pretty interesting, in my opinion! If I find any unusual combinations of worldviews and aesthetics on the Internet I may list them here. For now, the section of the page listing unusual combinations will be hypothetical and speculative. Note that in Demichronia, it's necessarily the case that all the content described in the list below exists and can be accessed on demand.

1: Conservative Christianity with Corporate Memphis aesthetics.
2: "Woke" (for a lack of a better word) ideologies with Renaissance paintings.
3: Wicca with space-colonization/sci-fi aesthetics.
4: National Socialism (Nazism) with pink kawaii aesthetics.
5: Stoicism with Las Vegas neon strip-club/casino aesthetics.
6: New Age philosophies illustrated with cave paintings.
7: Libertarianism with cubist art aesthetics.
8: Classical anarchy with images of volcanoes, magma, and illustrations of plate tectonics, but instead of explaining geology, the text explains anarchist concepts.
9: Islam with power metal aesthetics.
10: Judaism with goth/emo aesthetics.
11: Confucianism with graffiti aesthetics.
12: Fascism with Cocomelon aesthetics.
13: Marxism with porn images for no reason. Note that in Demichronia, even porn itself can have any aesthetics you can think of!
14: Buddhism with 1980's disco aesthetics.
More may be coming soon!

Ideologies + ideologies combinations (or other weird ideas)

Ideologies can be combined with each other, even when they're very different, and strange ideologies can be created. However, if you analyze ideologies very closely, even the really weird ones are, after all, unorthodox combinations of different sub-ideas, which I call semantic primes, an idea taken from linguistics and applied to ideologies. List of some interesting ideologies. Note that material describing/promoting these ideologies necessarily exist in Demichronia and are available to buy... of course, not every city produces these ideologies, but they are produced somewhere in Demichronia, and then the material (e.g. books) are available to buy everywhere in Demichronia, due to that material being mass produced and exported.

1: Murdakism: wearing a yellow t-shirt is strictly forbidden.
2: Exolibertarianism: it's like Libertarianism, but only outdoors! In any indoor environment, money is forbidden, and people are given things according to their needs. Note that even in one's house, money is forbidden, so you can only have money outdoors! So, where do you take your money? You can't put it inside a bank safe, because it's a closed environment, money MUST remain outdoors, and it's forbidden to put it inside any container! In order to have money, you must be homeless in Exolibertarianism. Or rather, you can have a home, but you must never enter it. Well, you can enter your home, actually, but you must leave your money outside. This is actually an interesting ideology, I may make a page about it, lol.
3: Tomatophobistan: eating tomatoes is strictly forbidden.
4: Drosor: wearing a yellow t-shirt is strictly required. The only moment you can take it off is when you have a shower, you must keep it on in every other moment!
5: Liberal Islam: some things about Islam remain, e.g. prayers, the theology/creation myths, Allah, Adam & Eve, pilgrimage to Mecca etc. except that it's pro-LGBT, pro-alcohol/pig/etc. (for other people, though one may refrain from consuming those oneself to respect Allah's wish... the rules only apply to oneself, and never to others), pro-freedom of religion etc. this is actually not that uncommon in Gaia, tbh, especially (but not only) in Europe and English-speaking countries. There may be a vegetarian and a "carnist" version of Liberal Islam: the former forbids pig meat (or any other animal meat for human consumption) for everyone, the latter allows meat, including pig, but the follower himself/herself may not eat pig meat, as a follower of Allah.
6: Anarcho-volcanism: it's like classical anarchy, except that anarchy is the will of the volcanoes, and that will "must" be respected (it's not a strict rule that humans have to obey to, it's just an idea considered to be "the wisest" among all the ways to organize a society). Volcanoes are worshipped as gods, though they are not higher in any "hierarchy" (as there are no hierarchies, everyone is equal in terms of power, there's equality not just amongst humans but also between humans and volcanoes!), they're just entities wise enought to have invented anarchy, billions of years ago, and their ideas can now finally be implemented (dinosaurs and early humans could not do that, even though volcanoes had already invented the concept of anarchy)! There may be many versions of Anarcho-volcanism, e.g. regional variations: Hawaiian Anarcho-Volcanism, Italian Anarcho-Volcanism, Japanese Anarcho-Volcanism, Icelandic Anarcho-Volcanism, Indonesian Anarcho-Volcanism etc. where volcanoes from different regions are revered, and there may be "psychotropic" versions of Anarcho-Volcanism, which state that one can communicate with volcanoes and gain more knowledge about anarchy through psychedelic substances.
7: Liberal National Socialism (LibNatSoc): this may be interesting... it's like National Socialism (Nazism) except that it's liberal, so it's pro-LGBT. Racism and anti-semitism are removed from the ideology etc. what remains, then? Perhaps building highways, vegetarianism (either for oneself or for the entire society... though the latter is not very liberal), more animal rights, the awareness that tobacco is harmful and therefore not smoking (though without banning tobacco, as that is an individual choice), the idea that Germany must regain its pre-WWII territories, and perhaps some other ideas. When asked about the horrifying atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, a LibNatSoc will agree those are horrible, and will say that their ideology has purged National Socialism from those horrible elements and created something new, something better. Also, quotes from Hitler that may have anything "positive" or "feel-good" about them will be taken out of their historical and cultural context and will be generalized into something positive and inspiring.
8: Hedonistic Gnosticism: it's almost identical to Gnosticism in terms of cosmology, theology, concepts etc. but it's hedonistic rather than ascetic! The world is corrupted, ruled by the Demiurge, except that a follower is encouraged to indulge in earthly pleasures as much as possible, and perhaps even make the world a better place for others as well (egoistic vs altruistic hedonism, and yes, in Demichronia, both versions have their own content, and even a balance between the two has its own content!).
9: Silicate freezing: an ideology that states that anything containing silicate must be inserted inside a freezer and stored there. Rocks and other minerals that contain silicate must be picked up and inserted inside one's freezer. If the freezer is already full of silicate, then another freezer must be bought and filled with silicate, and so on. It's one's duty to maximize the amount of silicate inserted inside a freezer.
10: Soul purification through wall-staring: staring at a wall for more than a certain amount of time (the amount varies depending on the book, duh!) purifies one's souls from all sins.
11: Furry animal guide: everyone is a furry, the world is divided in two categories: people who have woken up to this truth, and people who are still blind to it. Everyone's soul has an animal guide, a fursona, and furries are the ones who are aware of this fact. Depending on the animal one's soul is, that reflects on one's behavior, characteristics etc. and it can give a lot of useful information on oneself! The goal is to find the characteristics of one's fursona: what animal it is etc. in order to gain more insights on oneself!
More may be coming soon! Also, I may make pages for some of these ideologies, as it may be interesting.