Pangea

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The name of this country in my lore is Demichronia, but they call themselves Pangea. Gaians refer to this country as Pangea too, so that will be the name used in this page. You can read this page to see the thought process behind this fictional country.

1: Introduction

Pangea in my lore is the terrestrial part of Pan: an infinite multiverse that contains everything you can think of, somewhere in it. Pan contains Pangea (an infinite land where everything you can think of happens somewhere in it), Panthalassa (same as Pangea but underwater), and more, including locations in outer space. Because Pangea contains everything you can think of, not everyone in Pangea is aware of the multiverse-like property of reality itself, and therefore, they call the place they live in with a variety of different names. Gaia is the in-lore name for real life Earth, for example. Among the infinite places, there's one I'm particularly fascinated by, in-lore it's called Demichronia but the people in that country call it "Pangea". People in the alternative version of Gaia also call it Pangea, so in this page, Demichronia will be called "Pangea" (I also very much prefer the name). Basically, the in-lore name is Demichronia while the in-world name is Pangea, and in this page I'll use the name "Pangea" to describe this country. The name "Pangea" symbolizes the meaning of "the land of everything", and it's also a geological metaphor for all cultures, ideas and ethnicities coexisting in the same land, before everything got separated into different nations. Pangea is not supposed to be a utopia, it's not a system I'd necessarily promote or agree with, it's just a thought experiment. The flag of Pangea is the same as the polyamory flag.

Pangea is a society based on a division between free time and work time. Each of the two have different characteristics, which will be explained below:

1.1: Free time

Free time is a time where people approximately "have everything they want". However, this sentence must be explained. During free time, you are considered a customer, even when you don't buy anything, and you can have "everything you want" in the sense that the variety of products and services available in an accessible radius (usually within the same city, or the same part of the city if it's a large city) must be as high as possible. The variety of products and services available within said accessible radius is called alpha, and the goal of Pangea is to maximize that. "Wish" in this context is meant in a very broad sense: if the pipes in your house are broken and leaking, it is your wish for those pipes to be fixed, and therefore you call a plumber, who'll fulfill your wish. For each wish, there should be at least one person within an accessible radius who will fulfill your wish. Of course, since Pangea is a physical, non-solipsistic reality, wishes costs money: a car costs like a car, it's not free. Also, wishes that are physically or technologically unfeasible cannot be fulfilled. Extreme wishes, such as torture, abuse etc. can only be fulfilled by either Matchers (customers who have that specific wish, and therefore are not workers) or actors, which perform an act that looks and sounds like the one expressed by the wisher, except that it's fake. The people who will fulfill your wishes in your free time can be of two types: Matchers and Workers, though the latter is more common. Matchers are customers who have wishes matching yours. Note that "matching wishes" do not necessarily mean "same wish", but rather, it means wishes that fulfill each other. In the case of "reciprocal wishes", "matching wishes" are the same as "same wishes", for example, for a hug, but not all wishes are reciprocal. For instance, if Customer A and Customer B want to participate in a violent fight with a public watching them, then Customer A and Customer B have matching wishes that are the same as each other, and if said public is there because they want to watch a violent fight between two people, they are also matching wishes with Customer A and Customer B, but their wish is not the same: the two fighters want to participate in a violent fight while being watched by a public, whereas the public wants to watch a violent fight. Their wishes fulfill each other, but they are not the same. Regardless, they are all Matchers, none of them are workers, they're all customers, and therefore, the violent show is legal in that case (although there's no guarantee a show like that will actually happen). Matchers are not a category of people: for example, even your childhood friends (spontaneous, non-paid) who hang around with you and have fun together are considered Matchers. It's simply consensual customer-customer interactions, nothing more than that, the name "Matchers" is used for brevity, to avoid saying "consensual customer-customer interactions" or "other customers who want to interact with you" every time, that's really it. So, in order to understand this page, it's important to remember that "Matcher" simply means another customer who interacts with you consensually. Interactions with Matchers are the least expensive, since you don't pay them, and are more spontaneous and genuine, but the downside is that Matchers don't owe you anything. They can refuse to fulfill your wish (which matches their wish) for any reason, or even for no reason at all. With a Matcher, there is no guarantee of having what you want. Furthermore, having a Matcher who fulfills your wish is not as common as your wish being granted by a worker. Usually, wishes are granted by workers.

Note: regarding what wish-fulfillment mean: the "wish-fulfillment" in free time is meant to be an approximation of life in a virtual reality where one has everything they want. That means, it doesn't have to be real. If the sensorial perception of the wish is fulfilled, then the wish is considered fulfilled. Here's an example: let's say Person A is a sadistic customer who wants to torture someone with electric shocks: they can pay to have an experience where they take control of (fake) electric knobs, and a worker, that is, an actor whose job is to specifically get paid to pretend they get tortured, will pretend that they are electrocuted, with a very high degree of realism. Even though it's fake, and even if the customer knows it's fake, the wish is considered fulfilled, especially if the act was so good that it was undistinguishable from the real thing. Another example is, let's say that someone wants a certain book to be banned. Clearly such wish conflicts with other customers' wishes. Such wish cannot coexist with the wish of other customers to read the book, but since what Pangea tries to approximate in one's free time is the sensorial perception of the wish being fulfilled, one can fulfill that wish in that sense. That is, if someone wants a book to be banned, they can pay to participate in a realistic, immersive act that depicts the book being banned, with paid actors, headlines, speeches about why the book was banned and so on. You can even pay to get a fictional newspaper article saying that "[your name] has won: [book name] has at last been banned from our country! Here's the story of what happened". The book was not actually banned, it's just a show, but the sensorial experience is the same (as close as possible) as it would be if the book was actually banned. It's not fraud, since if you're paying for the experience of getting a book to be banned or to torture someone, you're told that what you're experiencing is a fictional LARP (live-action roleplay). There is, however, a way to legally torture someone: torturing a Matcher who specifically wants to be tortured. However, there is no systemic guarantee that such a person will exist or will be available for you. Actors who pretend are always available, though. Pangea does not require any worker to be tortured as part of their job, it's illegal to torture a worker, or a non-consensual customer. Only a consensual customer (a matcher) can be tortured, and as such, there is no guarantee of availability. Same thing goes for any other extreme wish, such as seeing violent gladiator fights and so on: those exist, but are fake, an act, and nobody gets injured. It is perfectly legal to wish to be tortured and get it, though, if that's what one wants, though you have to sign many waivers and so on.

Work time will be explained below:

1.2: Work time

Work time is a time where people (now considered "workers") fulfill other people's wishes, but it's not like each worker must do everything a customer says, but rather, each worker has their own role, and they must only perform tasks related to their role. A customer cannot pay a plumber for a passionate kiss, for example, because that's not the role of the plumber: a plumber only performs plumber-related tasks. However, since for (almost) every wish, there is a worker whose job is to fulfill that type of wish, there are professional partners who you can pay to give you a passionate kiss. As said before, extreme wishes that require torture, suffering and so on, are available only as an act, or true (but rarely?) only if there exist customers whose wish is specifically to receive that treatment. In addition, requesting torture for oneself is legal, though one has to sign many waivers, since it's such a serious request. There is guarantee of service when it comes to the act, and the real thing towards oneself, but the real thing towards others is not a guarantee, and perhaps it's rare, though I'm not exactly sure about how rare or common it is exactly.

All jobs must have a low "delta", that is, variation in their work time. That means the tasks of their job should be specific and shouldn't vary too much (e.g. a plumber cannot be asked to kiss a customer), in order to prevent asynchronicities, which will be explained below:

1.3: Asynchronicities

Asynchronicities are situations in which something that you do in your free time has consequences (positive or negative) in your work time, and they are illegal in Pangea. For instance, let's say an employee expresses a certain opinion in their free time: if at work things get more unpleasant (e.g. being made to perform more unpleasant tasks, or even more extreme, being fired) because of that, that's an asynchronicity and it's illegal. Likewise, if an employee in their free time does something beneficial to the company and they get promoted or something, that's also an asynchronicity and it's illegal. One of the ways to prevent asynchronicities is to have low delta/low variation day after day) for the workers, but it's not like each day is a copy of another, it's just a variation low enough to prevent asynchronicites. For example, a comic book worker will work on different scenes of the same comic, maybe even on different comics, but they won't be made to fix pipes in someone's house or kiss a customer: that's not the role of a comic book worker. There are some limited situations where variation during work can occur, but it must be proven that an asynchronicity has not occurred. For pragmatic reasons, regarding asynchronicities you are guilty unless proven innocent, so if significant variation occurs for an employee, there must be undisputable proof that an asynchronicity has not occurred.

1.4: Causal isolation

In a virtual reality where everyone lives in their own reality where they have everything they want, one's actions have absolutely no impact on other people. Pangea is not such virtual reality, but it tries to approximate those characteristics during free time, whereas in work time, the low delta means it's quite similar day after day. That means, what other people do, think or belief has little to no impact on anyone else's life. This also means that the religious/philosophical/ideological composition of society itself has little to no impact on the life of an individual. Causal isolation means that each individual is shielded from other people's actions and beliefs. Of course, since it's a physical, shared reality, the causal isolation is not as absolute as it would be in a virtual reality, but Pangea tries to maximize causal isolation. Everyone can live the life they want in their free time, regardless of what other people do or believe. The opposite of causal isolation is causal contamination: when the fulfillment of another customer's wish "contaminates" your own individual experience in your free time. Due to Pangea being a physical, shared reality, causal contamination cannot be entirely eliminated, but it's reduced to its minimum.

1.5: Information centers

Information centers are usually the starting point in Pangea if you want something. Due to the high alpha (high variety of products and services), Pangean cities can be difficult to navigate. In an information center, you express a wish (again, in a broad sense, like, if you need a plumber to fix the pipes in your house, that's considered a wish too), and then the staff of the information center will point you to a list of products or workers that can fulfill that wish, and will explain the characteristics of that product or service. The staff at the information center also have low delta: some of the staff is specialized for entertainment, some for utilities (like a plumber or a doctor), others for physical products and so on, to reduce (or rather, distribute) the cognitive workload of having to know everything that is available in Pangea (which is basically endless!). Of course, like every service, information centers cost money, but it's affordable. Information centers are very broad in scope: if for example you want to see a movie with certain characteristics, someone among the staff in the information center will give you the name of that movie, and where you can find it. Though, with search engines and the Internet, information centers have become less used lately, but still available for people who don't have the Internet (usually, people who don't have the Internet in Pangea do so for a personal choice, especially since the 2010's). Pangea makes it easy to still have what you want even if you decide not to have the Internet, it doesn't penalize you. Information centers were extremely important before the Internet but are still available. Information centers also sell maps, and regularly updated books that explain what's available in the city or town you're in.

1.6: Modularity

Modularity is a conception of things as a collection of interchangeable components rather than an indivisible whole. Modularity is very important for the Pangean system (though an individual won't necessarily have a modular view of things, it's totally up to them how to see things!), as it maximizes the alpha. Pretty much everything is considered modular by the Pangean system. For example, ideologies, including religions, are modular in Pangea. You can, for example, validly be a panentheistic occultist that worships Hedone, Sophia, Lucifer, Satan, Prometheus, Aphrodites and Jesus Christ in your pantheon, while fasting during the month of Ramadan but modifying the rule such as you can drink water during daytime, and celebrating Christmas on February 22nd. Eclecticism is extremely common in Pangea! To make another example of modularity, videogames are seen as a collection of assets, textures, music etc. and they are interchangeable. For example, you can change the music in a game, you can change characters (even swapping them for characters from a different franchise), health bars, icons, and so on. Modding and ROM/ISO Hacking is extremely common in Pangea. This leads to the next topic: copyright.

1.7: Copyright

Copyright in Pangea works differently than in Gaia (Earth). Since the primary goal of the Pangean system is to maximize the alpha (the variety of wishes fulfillable in one's free time), that means modularity (as explained before) is very important, and this includes derivative works. It's a logical necessity that the "Rule 34", that is, "if it exists, there is porn of it", applies to Pangea, for example. But Pangea expands that rule to "if it exists, there's [everything] of it". This means derivative works of everything are extremely common: food, music, ideologies (including religions), and videogames, the latter follows in a huge community of modding and ROM hacking, bigger than anywhere in Gaia! Because of this, the copyright in Pangea works differently from that of Gaia, it's a system that is designed to maximize the alpha. Of course, copyright exists in Pangea, because if it didn't, there would be no economic incentive to create high quality media. Creators must be economically compensated for each copy of their work. On the other hand, copyright in Gaia discourages derivatives. They still happen even in Gaia, but it's a fragile situation: they are often taken down and such. In Pangea, there is a system called "modular copyright", which means that the copyright doesn't apply to the entire work, but to each component. The price of the work as a whole depends on the sum of prices of each component. I'll make an example with Super Mario 64. In Pangea, under the modular copyright, it's possible to copy and sell the entire game, but in that case, the game must be sold at the price of the original game, and all the money goes to the creators of the game. If you want to use the music of Super Mario 64 in your work, you can use it, but the amount of money corresponding to the value of that music will go to the creators. If you create a derivative of Super Mario 64, then you must sell it at a minimum price equal to the value of all components that you used, and that money will go to the creators of the game. If you add your own content to the derivative, you get to keep the money that corresponds to the value of your original work, whereas all the other money will go to the creators. Or, another example, if a movie lasts 120 minutes and costs the equivalent 10 dollars to see, then you can incorporate, for instance, a scene that lasts one minute and 12 seconds (1.2 minutes), but when you sell or otherwise share your work, 10 cents for each copy must go to the creators of the movie. This modular copyright allows a mass production of derivative works, which is necessary to maximize the alpha.

1.8: Official truth

Modularity also results in another consequence: for each statement and its opposite, there is a media that says that and that you can buy. Because of this, the Pangean government provides an "official truth" that one can consult. Without the official truth, Pangeans wouldn't be able to tell what's true and what's false, because the media says everything and its opposite, it's like a white noise of information. The Pangean government doesn't censor pretty much anything, it uses "saturation of information" as a method of controlling information, and introducing the necessity of having an "official truth" available for people to see. Even doxxing is made ineffective: for pretty much every Pangean citizen, there exist millions of fake doxxing texts, with randomly generated information. This way, if a real doxxing text exists, it's drowned under a million of fake ones, making it statistically unlikely for any doxxing text to be real. This is called "security by obfuscation". As for "free speech", Pangea makes a distinction not often found in Gaia: content and social interactions. In terms of content, there's almost absolute freedom of speech in Pangea: you can buy Mein Kampf, racist content (though, because Pangea is a "gradient multiethnic" rather than "sharp multiethnic", that is, boundaries between "different" ethnicities are more gradual rather than being sharply defined, colorist attitudes may be more common than racist ones, though because of how Pangean society is structured, the harm is minimized anyway), anti-Pangean content (even really harsh criticisms towards Pangea!), any type of content, really. In terms of content, the freedom of speech and listening is almost absolute. However, in terms of social relationships, rules are somewhat more rigid (though not excessively so, just strict enough to be functional): you can't insult a cashier at a supermarket, for example, or another customer (unless said customer consents). A cashier's role is just doing a certain task at a supermarket, not to be insulted. However, due to the maximization of the alpha, for each wish, there is at least one worker in the same city that fulfills that type of wish. So, if your wish is to insult someone, there are workers whose job is to be insulted. Plus, there may be some matchers, but usually not, so don't count on it. If your wish is to say "offensive" things, don't worry, what is "offensive" is subjective, and it's pretty much guaranteed that whatever you believe in, there's some community you can pay to say those things, interact with people who agree with you (or with workers whose job is to agree with you) and have a sense of community. So, free speech in terms of content = yes. Free speech in terms of social relationships = more restricted, but it's still the case that for each type of social interaction you want to have, there's at least one worker whose job is to let you have that interaction.

Fact-checking and content warnings in Pangea are often 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 Pangea (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 Pangean 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 Pangea, and also for people who want a more "authentic" experience. As for the content itself, the Pangean 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 Pangea, 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.

1.9: Education

Schools in Pangea have the primary purpose of training students to perform work-related tasks, so that when they'll start working, they won't be unprepared. Because of the huge variety of jobs, subjects are usually optional, but students are encouraged to be good as many jobs as possible. Going to school is mandatory and is therefore considered work time, and students get paid for passing tests. Difficulty is not determined by age but by skills: the better you are at a subject, the more difficult the tests will become, and the more the student will get paid. Like in Gaia, there are subjects about maths, history, philosophy, literature, psychology, software development and the like, but there are also subjects that are not normally taught in Gaia: agriculture (both theory and practice of how to grow crops), and many others. Students don't have to wear a uniform, because in Pangea, 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. Schools in Pangea also serve the purpose of psychologically profiling students since when they are children, to track their fears, interests, preferences, personality traits, what they're good at, and so on, so that if the economy needs to assign jobs due to a scarcity in a certain service, the jobs are assigned in a way that will cause the least possible negative psychological states among all configurations that maximize the alpha, so maximizing the alpha still takes the priority.

Schools are generally from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Between 11:30 A.M. and 12:30, there's the lunch break hour, in which students become customers and can perform various activities at school, such as (but not limited to):

-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 "rebel 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 Pangean 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! 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 Pangean government, it brings money!
-Other stuff (I'll have to think about it!)

Subjects and ratings in schools:

As said earlier, schools in Pangea 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 as many things as possible (though not everything, as that'd be unrealistic), 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 at as many things as possible. Some subjects are mandatory but most are optional, though you need to choose at least a certain number of optional subjects. Schools are basically training camps for "future workers", in many senses. 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, but this aspect will be better explained in the economy section.

2: Geography and climate

Pangea 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 Pangea's coasts, which prevent Pangea's climate from being uniformly oceanic. Pangea has a mountain range in the middle that extends from north to south, and that creates a rain shadow in eastern Pangea, which is drier than the western part. 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, while the eastern part, due to its proximity to Sudhurland (a large Australia-like continent with almost exclusively hot desert climates), has a hot desert climate with hot winters due to the tropical latitude: a climate phenomenon similar to that of Mecca, Saudi Arabia! Slightly more north, around 22-25°N, the climate is similar except that winters are slightly cooler compared to the summers. At very high altitudes, the climates becoming very cool year-round, similar to the highlands of Bolivia. I'll work on the other latitudes eventually!

3: History

Coming soon. The rule is: for each historical period, the alpha must be maximized as much as possible, while also trying to avoid synchronicities.

4: List of things (non-comprehensive)

Because Pangea contains pretty much everything you can think of, the list is necessarily non-comprehensive, as it'd be basically endless! Or maybe not literally endless, but it'd be huge to say the least, so I'll list random things, or things that I find interesting or quirky. "(Matcher/Acting)" means that those services are so extreme that they're not available as a real thing from workers (it'd be against the law to request a worker to do something so extreme), but only from matchers (customers who want that specifically), and there's no guarantee of service. As part of the alpha, however, even those extreme wishes must be fulfilled. However, since sensorial experience (e.g. sight, hearing etc.) is considered as a valid criterion for considering a wish to be fulfilled, then those wishes can be fulfilled by skilled actors through an act of the thing, even though it's not real and it's just acting. For now, only the number "1" in this list is so extreme. Things are not in any particular order, it's random, the numbers are there just to count how much stuff I've listed for each category.

4.1: Entertainment

1: (Matcher/Acting) Violent IRL shows, like a modern day Colosseum, street fights, fighting in arenas, shows where people (either Matchers or actors) get tortured to please a sadistic audience; public medical experiments available to be watched by those who are into that etc.
2: 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.
3: You can pay for friends (and partners), or you can pay to find Matchers for you (though the latter is not guaranteed to yield results). In case you pay for a professional friend, 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 Pangea, 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, otherwise that's not allowed! 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!
4: Places where you can pay to set things on fire. They are known as "Pyromaniac fun centers".
5: Water parks, with slides and the like.
6: "Mud parks"(?): like water parks but with mud instead of water!
7: 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. Of course, there are places for every aesthetic thinkable!
8: Kart racing.
9: Places where you pay to destroy things (rage rooms)
10: 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, an ASMR experience in hotels? Or not necessarily ASMR but company-related, something like that.
11: Outdoor public discussion forums. All the customers are consensual, of course, since they are Matchers. 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.
12: 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, who are Matchers, and are not required to chat or interact with you. If there are no Matchers for you in that community, the workers will interact with you if you want, so that you won't feel excluded.
13: 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.
14: "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) people of Gaian origins who are basically grifters. 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.
16: You can buy and use drugs, any drug, even hard ones. If that's what you want to do in your free time...
17: Themed parks (e.g. dinosaur themed)
18: "Relax centers" where one can go after job, to relax from the stress of one's job.
19: You can go play Dungeon and Dragons (you pay for it, of course!), the other people in your party playing with you are either Matchers, 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!
20: Nudist beaches.
21: Astronomic observatory where you can use an advanced telescope to see the Moon up close (and perhaps Saturn if the telescope is advanced enough?).
22: 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 Pangea 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.
23: 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.
24: Practice Yoga.
25: 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!).
26: Videogame competitions/tournaments (some of the money will go the creators of the games played)!
27: A fun indoor park similar in some ways to the Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII.
28: Disco with music in it, and there may be several activities.
29: Cinema.
30: 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.
31: Live concerts of every type of music you can think of!
32: Karaoke.
33: Various festivals.
34: You can easily ride a bike if you want, there are bike lanes everywhere!
35: Shopping!!! (supermarkets in Pangea have pretty much everything, lmao!)
36: Cosplay festivals
37: 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.
38: 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, but the answer is "probably not". However, Pangea does not respect Gaian laws, so the castle DOES exist in Pangea! The relationships that Pangea has with Nintendo and the rest of Gaia are speculative, but it's very likely that they won't be too good, because Pangea laws/ideology/culture violates several International Treaties of Gaia (e.g. the treaty that criminalizes drugs, and regarding copyright). So it's likely that economic relationships between Pangea and Gaia are rather difficult, but this aspect is a work in progress since it's so intricate and speculative. In any case, if Gaia doesn't allow its content on Pangea, then Pangea pirates and creates derivative content from Gaia, by definition.
39: A penis museum. A museum that displays mummified penises of various animals, including a mummified penis of a human from ancient Pangea, and in the museum there are texts on the walls with explanations about penises in general, or some "fun facts" about penises.
40: 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 Pangea, 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.
41: 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.
42: "Cuddle Therapy".
43: 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!
44: 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!
45: 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 Pangean), but I think a sci-fi/fantasy/liminal aesthetics would fit!
46: (Only in some cities) copies of Gaian attractions: the Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Giza pyramids, Statue of Liberty, the Kremlin, Pisa tower, the Parthenon, statues of Kim Jong Un etc.
47: Individual vs group superiority clubs. Individual superiority clubs are clubs where you can go to, and the workers there are (either actually are, or pretend to be) "inferior" to you, in whatever value that you find worthy of being proud about e.g. if you feel proud of your guitar skills, you can pay to be in a club where people genuinely don't know how to play the guitar, or they don't play it well, and then in that club you can receive compliments for your guitar skills, as well as hearing other people play guitar (badly) and having them say "yeah... you play guitar much better than us! We suck and you're amazing!". The same thing goes for "immutable characteristics". Let's say that, idk, you're racist, or sexist (e.g. misogynistic or misandric), or whatever else... you can pay to join a club where they tell you that you're better than them due to having those characteristics. Then, in order to make you feel even more validated, they can tell you the achievements of the people who share the characteristic that you are "proud" of, e.g. if you're a man, then a bunch of women may tell you about men's historical developments, strength, contributions etc. if you're a woman, then a bunch of men may tell you that your gender commits way less crimes, that it's strong, independent, that it managed to overcome patriarchal systems (at least in Gaia... by definition, in Pangea it was never so severe (though Pangea had different prob lems, really dark too, just of a different kind)... for each historical period, the alpha was maximized as much as possible within the limits of the technology available... the same cannot be said at all about Gaia, neither in the past nor now), that it can manipulate men through beauty, that women commit much less violence, sexual abuse, wars, genocides etc. compared to men and that "we (men) are nothing compared to women... without a top-bottom patriarchal system, women would naturally be better than us. Not to mention, men do a lot more wicked things than women. Women are more pure and beautiful" etc.. Even if you identify as non-binary, a bunch of men and women (who will be framed as inferior to non-binary people) will find something positive to say about that, too! And this makes things clear... Pangean society as a whole has to be very creative in terms of thinking, arguments and ideologies. Necessarily so, because of the alpha. This will lead to worldviews, arguments and ideas that are pretty much unthinkable in Gaia! I somewhat suspect (though I'm not 100% sure) that this "acceleration" of brainstorming all possible ideas may make Pangea extremely culturally prosperous compared to countries where uniformity is valued. Group superiority clubs have a similar concept to individual superiority clubs, except that the workers are (or claim to be) part of your group, defined as a characteristic that you find worthy to be proud about, and the "inferior" people are those outside of the group, not present in the club. Of course, without saying anything directly to the outsiders, as that'd be non-consensual/harassment. As already said, freedom of speech/hearing is pretty much absolute in terms of content, even live content such as superiority clubs, but it's not as free (though not super rigid either) in customer-customer interactions, or in customer-worker interactions outside of the daily/weekly role of the worker e.g. you cannot insult or say offensive/controversial things to a cashier that is working at a supermarket.
48: Casinos
49: Video game tournaments, or even just paying to play to some video game with other people: either workers whose daily job is to play those games with customers... or with other customers (Matchers), but only if they want to play with you... whereas with workers, it's guaranteed you'll have someone to play video games with.
50: In video game stores, you can try a game before you buy it, even though that costs some money. Obviously, most of that money goes to those who made that game... (even if it's a Gaian game, assuming there is business between Pangea and Gaia, which there likely is).
51: Museums of various kinds, normal and weird ones.
52: Sports of all kinds. You can play either with other customers (but only if they want to), or with workers whose daily job is to play with customers (so it's guaranteed you'll have someone to play with).
53: Welcome parties: e.g. if someone from Gaia goes to Pangea, either as a tourist or to live there permanently (and it's possible, just like it's possible for a clear web user to visit the dark web), they can request a welcome party to them. Also, if someone from Pangea moves to a different city (which happens often around 18-25 years of age, as one moves from their city of birth to a different city, often due for climate/geography/natural environment reasons), they can request a welcome party to the new city. Parties can be customized, the party will conform to the person's idea of "party", which may vary a lot. Of course, the "party workers" also have a low delta, so there are many of them (maybe around 10-100 for each city? idk for sure), each one with a different personality, different activities they can do (the range for each "party worker" is relatively small and divided into "categories", due to the low delta) etc. so depending on the idea one has regarding "parties", different party workers will provide the service. One can also call a worker that is not a party worker to participate to the party, e.g. if one has the idea of having sex (or even an orgy) as their idea of party, they can call sex workers to provide that service to the party. Note that not all "non-party workers" provide this type of service, but for each activity/desire that no party-worker can fulfill in that specific city (rare, because they try their best to maximize the alpha within the context of parties anyway), there is at least one non-party worker that offers party services in addition to their regular service. So, let's say that your wish is rather specific, and you want to play Dungeons and Dragons as your welcome party, and none among the "official" party workers knows how to play it: then you can call Dungeons and Dragons workers to play that with you in the party environment (with welcome party aesthetics)! Again, not all Dungeons and Dragons workers will offer that, but due to the alpha, there is at least one group of Dungeons and Dragons workers that offer, as a service, playing in a party environment (in addition to playing normally, of course). The alpha doesn't mean that everyone will do everything for you, just that for each wish, there is at least one person (or minimum relevant number of people, in some cases) whose job is to fulfill that type of wish.
54: Democracy roleplays: Pangea is not a democracy. If it was, then the alpha (or, more broadly, Pangean values) would be at serious risk. However, if one wants to vote or participate in a democracy, a simulation is provided: Democracy simulators are places (indoor or outdoors, depending on the preferences) where people go and vote for one (or more) fictional political parties, based on one's preferences or some other strategy. Then, the votes are counted, and a political party or candidate (the candidate is a real person but the whole thing is a fiction, for entertainment) wins. Whoever gets more votes wins. Then, a celebratory party, inauguration, speech etc. is performed by the winner, in front of the paying crowd. If someone you didn't like won, no worries, there are sections (e.g. sub-groups, clubs etc.) in this democracy simulator. For each candidate or political party that has lost, there are groups where to discuss "conspiracy theories" regarding why that political party or candidate lost. For instance, they may have intentionally or unintentionally miscounted the votes, or perhaps someone had spread false rumors about candidates that swayed people's opinions, and others refuse to declare that [winner] is their ruler, and do (fake) protests inside the hall or outdoor garden of the democracy simulator. Every few years, a new election is made and people vote again, hoping to win (what do they win, since it's just a simulation? some sense of identitarian satisfaction, I suppose... well, that's not much different from real life "democracies" anyway loool XD)
55: Shooting ranges: you can pay to go to somewhere where you shoot targets (I mean, mannequins, or signs with a red "X" on it... not humans lol and it's structured in a way to guarantee safety). You can even be given a score if you want, based on hit rate, speed, precision etc.
56: Locations that were made with the intent for tourists to take photos (note, not all cities have those, but in the entirety of Pangea there exists at least one location for any weird thing that a tourist may take a photo of): e.g. a supermarket that sells cocaine and other drugs close to fruit, vegetables and other foods. They are placed close to each other with the specific purpose of tourists taking a photo of it and then saying "see? This is what Pangea is like!".
56.1: The supermarket that sells cocaine and other drugs next to fruit and other foods is merely one example! There are many others!
56.2: (Clearly intended for Gaian tourists to take photos of it) a store called "OnlyFans" that only sells fans (like, you know, those things that spin and create wind).
57: A nurse/doctor (you can choose the gender you want, or even non-binary/androgynous if you're into that) that masturbates you if you can't use your arms. You call them, and they offer that service for you (at a cost, of course... but it's relatively affordable).
58: Car repairer: if your car is broken, you can bring it to a car repairer to fix your car!
59: Schools where you can learn martial arts!
60: Real time human translator (the work still exists but is slowly being replaced by AI as of mid-2020's): you pay someone to translate a conversation in real time between you and another person who speaks a different language.
61: Public transport (buses, taxis, trains etc.)
62: A fast food restaurant that looks exactly like the Krusty Krab from Spongebob, both outside and inside!
63: Spicy restaurants: restaurants that serve spicy food, with various levels of spiciness with super accurate scales. (e.g. Scoville Scale). It also serves non-spicy food, but each food is rated according to spicy scale. This can be done in regular restaurants as well, but spicy restaurants may also be themed with spicy food aesthetics, and mostly focus on spicy foods (though they also serve non-spicy foods). What differs from regular restaurants, however, is that there is also a part of the restaurant where workers are paid to let customers have a "social experience" where you can get compliments for standing spicy food well, where you can brag about being proud of tolerating spicy foods well, where there are "spicy food eating contests" etc.
64: Media banning LARPing. You don't like a piece of media (book, videogame, movie, song, etc.)? You can participate in a media banning LARPing (Live-Action Role-Playing) where you pay actors to play as politicians, psychologists and so on, and where you play a role in getting the media to be banned. You can select the difficulty, from ultra easy to ultra hard, the harder the difficulty, the more difficult it will be to convince the politicians to ban the media you dislike. There will be discussions, maybe even blackmailing politicians (within the LARPing, not real, of course), and if you do manage to get the piece of media to be banned, there will be a fictional newspaper article saying something like "[your name] has won: [media name] has finally been banned from our country! Here's what happened", and you can have, depending on your choice, compliments from people who thought the media was a scourge on the Pangean society, insults from people who liked that media, a mix of both, or undefined for more surprise and a sense of suspence. If you win at the ultra hard difficulty, you get a trophy: the LARPing is based on real political and psychological concepts and it has a good degree of realism, so getting a trophy for winning at the ultra hard difficulty means you have serious psychological manipulation and political skills, and you can be proud of that!
65: Ethnostate LARPing. You want to live in an ethnostate where everyone looks similar to you in terms of ethnicity? Try the Ethnostate LARPing. You can pay to access an... well, not an ethnostate, but a small portion of a street, decorated with your preferred ideological symbols. It's a small portion of a street, but it feels like a huge town or city due to geometry, angles, mirrors etc. that cause optical illusions and make the place feel way larger than it is. This can give the customer a satisfying sense of power.
66: A room full of mirrors on each wall, as well as on the floor and on the ceiling, creating a quirky optical effect of there being infinite clones of you in an infinite space.
67: Religious sex work: sex workers who'll have sex with customers in rooms inside temples to honor certain deities (usually pleasure-centered deities: hedonistic theism, but not necessarily, that can be modular as well!).
68: Yellow Submarine: you can pay to enter a yellow submarine (or a submarine of any color, for that matter) and just see what things look like underwater.
69: Fake public executions: for example, fake beheadings. A fake head with fake red blood is "beheaded", but in reality, the person's real head is inside their shirt. Pangea as a society has studied and perfectioned how to make almost any type of fake execution (or any fake extreme event in general) look pretty much undistinguishable from a real one. Pangea as a society is very good with illusionist tricks. One can pay to see a fake public execution for any reason: for example, if one is a Murdakist (i.e. believes wearing a yellow t-shirt must be punished with death), one can pay to see such an act, with a lengthy speech before the (fake) execution, explaining the reason, what the "criminal" has done and so on. Of course, none of it is real, even though it looks very realistic.
70: Iron Nose Tournament. It's a competition where customers who want to participate demonstrate their resistance to bad smells. The customer who has the best resistance to bad smells wins a trophy, and is considered the winner of the Iron Nose Tournament for the year. There is a "Generic Edition" of the Iron Nose Tournament as well as more specific editions: e.g. "Women's Fart Edition", where customers demonstrate their resilience while smelling women's farts. Those women are workers whose job revolves around their farts: either they offer facefarting sessions, or they fart on customers' faces in Iron Nose Tournament arenas where spectators can watch. Those women's farts are extremely stinky. Then there's "Fart Edition" (more general, with both male AND female workers providing the challenge), "Men's Fart Edition", "Feet Edition", "Rotten Food Edition", and so on. If a customer is the strongest when it comes to smelling Women's farts but not in general, for example, then the customer is given a trophy for the specific edition they won, but not the trophy for the general tournament. In order to prove that the customer has a sense of smell, they are made to smell very light smells (though still perceptible by the vast majority of people), easily recognizable (e.g. cherries, various famous fruits, etc.) and are told to describe the smell. Some of the "smells" are actually totally odorless, and that's a trick: it's designed to prove whether or not the customer's sense of smell works properly. The customer knows that some things are odorless, and the customer must say that it's odorless, in that case.

4.2: Media

Games:

1: 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 Pangea is HUGE (to cater to the tastes of as many customers as possible, even the most obscure niches have tons of content in Pangea).
2: 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.
3: Various crazy fan-made ports (e.g. Tekken 6 for the PS2... Super Mario 64 for the PS1 etc.)
4: 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.
5: 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.
6: 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. You must be very careful with your saves, because there are saves that are "Checkmate", that is, no matter what you'll do at that point in that save, you'll die sooner or late, so it's advised to think strategically and have multiple saves in case something bad happens. However, you only have 10 saves, so you must manage them strategically. A pretty fun game. Of course, if you're not a fan of furry porn but like that specific game mechanics, there are (read below):
7: Games where you must manage a limited number (e.g. 10, but it can vary) of save files, but depending on what you do, those save files are "Checkmate", that is, no matter what you do after that point, you'll die sooner or later (and these games have permadeath, which means if you die, you'll have to start all over from the beginning). The goal of these games is to manage your save files strategically and avoid being put in a checkmate position. If all of your saves are checkmate, you've basically lost. If you die, that save file gets erased, and all the progress will be lost. Of course, when you save the game, you can save on multiple files, but be careful: the game doesn't tell you if that game file is checkmate, you'll discover it, but it'll be too late, so it's wise to not save the same situation across multiple files. It's a strategic game mechanic that can be challenging and fun.

Virtual reality experiences in Pangea

This is a list of wishes not fulfillable in the real, physical world. Obviously, this list is not exhaustive (just like all other lists in this page), and it can never be, it'd literally be infinite! This list is inspired by a concept of a virtual or otherwise solipsistic reality where everyone can have whatever they want. That reality is called "Panchronia". What is it that one can wish? Of course the answer is: anything, but here I'll list a bunch of stuff, except what can be fulfilled in the "real" (non-virtual) Pangea (which is listed elsewhere in this page).

Wishes that require torture, murder, abuse, immorality, or are physically or technologically unrealistic (as of 2026, at least) cannot be normally fulfilled in Pangea, as it's either illegal or unfeasible. Immoral wishes that require torture and suffering of another person can only be fulfilled by Matchers (rare? and definitely not guaranteed), or by workers who perform those things as an act and are therefore not real. Other than that, those things are illegal in Pangea. However, in Pangea, these, including the immoral actions, can be "fulfilled" through a virtual headset, since the technology exists, though for now only with audio and video, without touch, smell or taste. Outside of the virtual reality, in a non-fictional environment, these wishes are either illegal or unfeasible. Other than in a virtual reality, these experiences can be "experienced" through other types of fictional media as well. As long as it's fictional, it's legal in Pangea. Warning, some of the examples are really dark... it's to be expected, after all, since wishes that are not fulfillable in Pangea are either really immoral, or fantasy-based. Of course, it goes without saying that you can also have simulations of legal, realistic wishes in a virtual headset, I just won't list them because otherwise it'd be redundant, since if they're legal and feasible I'll list them elsewhere in this page. List:

1: Killing someone.
2: Torturing someone.
3: Having sex with children or animals.
4: Be the ruler of an entire planet, or galaxy, even!
5: Being farted on by skunk girls.
6: Being a skunk girl.
7: Having magical powers.
8: Flying.
9: Slowly eating a human being while still alive.
10: Raping someone.
11: Microwaving a newborn baby.
12: Riding a Chocobo (cute bird-like creatures from Final Fantasy).
13: Being inside a videogame.

Other media (I'll categorize things better eventually, for now I'm mostly copying and pasting from the old page):

1: TV channels about pretty much anything you can think of. Not to mention the Internet! Watching Pangean TV is pretty much like watching the Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty.
2: Blogs, videos etc. about anything!
3: 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.
4: News services on TV/Internet/streaming platforms of various aesthetics, ideologies and characteristics: e.g. news services that are "racist-by-news-selection" (e.g. they broadcast news of violent acts done by specific ethnicities... like some people (I won't say who, but it should be obvious) already do on the Internet -.-" of course, for every ethnicity, there are racist news services against them, so there's equality, after all ;D), "kinda-neutral" news services, conspiracy theory news services, Abrahamic news services (events are interpreted according to Christianity, Judaism and/or Islam), fascist news services, anarchist news services, communist news services, capitalist news services, sci-fi news services (can mean various things, e.g. the broadcasters roleplay as humans from the distant future who comment on current events), "left/right-wing" news services, hedonistic news services (they give positive opinions on things that cause well-being and negative opinions on things that cause pain, suffering, dissatisfaction, negative emotions etc. from their point of view, well-being must be maximized), reverse-hedonistic news services (they give positive opinions on things that cause suffering and negative opinions on pleasurable things), Wiccan news services, Satanic (with as many versions of Satanism you can think of) news services, Hindu news services, Occultist news services, paranormal news services etc. Of course it's not just the ideology that differs between the various services, but also the selection of news (i.e. the things that they decide to talk about), as well as the aesthetics, e.g. some have a "standard" aesthetics like the news in Gaia, some have an anime cosplay aesthetics, some have a kawaii aesthetic, some have a sci-fi aesthetics, medieval aesthetics, fantasy aesthetics, extraterrestrial aesthetics, V-Tubers who tell the news, news services told in an ASMR voice (with or without ASMR triggers of various kinds), doomer aesthetics with a pessimistic man or woman who may smoke while telling the news (important: in that case, they choose people who already smoke, they DON'T require you to start smoking just for that role! In the extreme case that nobody smokes, or if someone smokes but is trying to quit, or if you don't smoke but want to have that aesthetics anyway, they can give fake "cigarettes" undistinguishable from actual cigarettes, but they are just "smoking" water and the "smoke" that you see is just water vapor... the important thing is merely the aesthetics), news services with cyberpunk aesthetics, fairy/forest aesthetics, 1940's black and white aesthetics (but with current news) etc. There are also some news services where the broadcasters are naked and they tell the news while naked, and in some of those news services they even have sex (like, that's intentionally a part of the transmission, so the watchers of that news service can see that) in the "interludes" between a session of news and another! You prefer fetishes instead of sex? Those exist as well! E.g. news channels where the broadcaster shows their feet while explaining the news, or where they fart when they have to (and show their ass), or... I don't remember what other fetishes exist, but you get the gist. Some news services are musical: they sing songs and the lyrics are the explanation of news. Of course, there are "musical news services" for all musical genres that have some form of lyrics. And so on. I say "news services" instead of channels because there'd be too many combinations, and having channels entirely dedicated to those may be inefficient, so in "traditional TV's", they exist but do not have entire channels just for that, they're just news services. However, in Pangean streaming services, there are indeed entire channels based on that, they can either be "streaming" or "on-demand", depending on the type of experience you want to have! There is also "government context" (which you can turn on or off depending on your preference, but it's on by default) that explains the bias, aesthetics, news topic focus etc. of the various news services. There are both biased news reportings, as well as news that are completely fabricated (fake news): in the latter case, however, there is a requirement to place a large disclaimer (e.g. before the service starts) that says: "the following content is fictional and for entertainment purposes, none of this actually happened". In any case, you can turn on the government context at any time and it will say that the content is fictional. The technology that permits the "government context" is called "Teletext" and is almost identical to the Teletext in Gaian TV's. Of course, now the technology is even more advanced, but the premise is the same: you can see the government context whenever you want it, without it obstructing your vision of the content. Other than the "Teletext", in order to see the "government context" you can also use the "Info" button and it will explain relevant things about what you're seeing.

5: Bias by selection news services: there are news services that offer a biased view of the world by selecting only a particular kind of content. In Gaia, an example of this is racist selections of news. Each piece of content, when taken singularly, is truthful and may even be neutral in tone. The bias arises not from the pieces of content taken individually, but from the overall selection of content, as a whole. In Gaia, there are some accounts that share a lot of news of violent crimes committed by people of certain ethnicities, while not talking about violent crimes in general. In Pangea, that kind of stuff also exists, but much more variety of it exists! For example, there are Murdakist news channels (Murdakism is a religion whose only teaching says that wearing a yellow t-shirt must be a crime punishable with death) who, whenever a murder or rape occurs, they search for all the photos of the perpetrator, and see if there's at least one photo where that person wears a yellow t-shirt. In that case, they show that image attached to the text that describes the crime. If a photo of the perpetrator wearing a yellow t-shirt cannot be found, then the Murdakist news channel simply does not talk about that crime. The fact that the perpetrator has worn a yellow t-shirt at least once in their lives is connected more or less implicitly with the crime. The goal is to lead the watcher to believe that people who wear yellow t-shirts are evil and must be punished with death. This and much more exist in Pangea, this type of content is "bias by selection news services".

Technology:

1: Flip-phones of all kinds
2: Javascript-free Internet (for those who prefer it, but there's also normal Internet with Javascript)
3: Customizable themes (for websites and OS). They're basically CSS codes, like the ones you can have on userContent.css on Firefox-based browsers in Gaia.
4: 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.

4.2.3: Ideologies

Modular ideologies

Ideologies + aesthetics combinations

4.2.7: Internet

Internet: almost every type of content (except non-consensual stuff, stuff that was created as the result of abuse, etc. unless fictional, of course) must be available, and the "browsing experience" must be customizable. The idea is more similar to the Internet of the early 2000's, where you used to search for stuff and you got what you searched for. 2020's Gaian Internet often "force-feeds" you content through algorithms that you cannot freely customize or remove. Pangean Internet can also have "feeds" if you want them, even feeds that work the same way as Gaian ones, but they're not compulsory, and both the content and the user interface can be easily customizable. This reduces the possibility of "accidentally stumbling upon unwanted content" (unless you want to have that kind of experience, and in that case, you absolutely can!). You can have a feed if you want but you have a lot more control over it compared to the Gaian Internet. Comments are also not necessarily as central to the Pangean Internet experience as they are on Gaia, though you can see them if you want, but they tend to be more decentralized rather than having just one comment section. You can also easily search for specific comments, or filter comments based on various characteristics. Pangean browsers are like Firefox when it comes to allowing CSS customization of websites, but it's much easier to customize websites in Pangean browsers compared to Firefox. Also, there are websites that contain CSS themes made by users, and you can easily install them. Pangea is very pro-free speech, but in a weird way that would confuse Gaians. It's very pro-free speech when it comes to accessing content and even publishing it, but it's more restrictive (though not excessively so) when it comes to social interactions with other people. Also, websites have various "light" versions, for various hardware. Every app also has "light" versions with different system requirements! Games have fan-based ports for lighter hardware (a percentage of the money goes to the original creators of that game).

4.4: Physical products

1: Plushies of pretty much anything you can think of
1.1: Fetish plushies of various things, including monster-girls etc. may also be a hybrid plushie/sex-toy.
2: 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!
3: 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!
4: 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).
5: 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 values of Pangea, 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 Pangean values (most importantly, maximization of the alpha): Islam is against iconography, and yet such book (Quran with illustrations) must exist, by definition, due to the values of Pangea. However, the role of the government (and schools) is to provide context, that's why in Pangean 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 Pangea, 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 Pangea, 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 Pangean 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, Pangea "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.
6: A Sudoku with hentai illustrations.
7: 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, Pangea 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).
8: 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!)
9: Toilet paper (gotta list normal stuff too, you know), of various colors, and some of it even has drawings on it (even though that's more expensive).
10: Soap.
11: Tooth paste, of various tastes, even sour-lemon taste, for those who prefer sour tastes! Sweet toothpaste, spicy toothpaste etc.
12: Tooth brushes of various colors, illustrations, and to some extent shapes (though some may be more uncomfortable to hold).
13: Shampoos of different aromas, different package shapes, color (both of the package and the shampoo itself), characteristics, illustrations (including anime-style illustrations e.g. anime characters washing their hair, naked or not).
14: Blanket heaters.
15: Heaters that can produce not only warmth but also light (e.g. with a fake fire animation), and static sounds (e.g. from a fan inside the heater).
16: Air conditioning, also of different colors, illustrations, shapes, and even software e.g. air conditioners that have a triangular remote that resembles Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls: various types of sounds when you press a button (the buttons themselves can have lots of different colors, shapes and aesthetics): the temperature and settings may be displayed in various colors and fonts, etc.
17: Furniture of various aesthetics (a lot of different aesthetics)!
18: Card games with hentai (or IRL pornographic) illustrations: e.g. the King and the Queen are naked and attractive.

4.8: Food

Note: Pangea is not a vegetarian country. Foods of all kinds is available and easy to buy, including all sorts of meat (except human meat). You can buy dog meat, cat meat, scorpions, bugs and so on, but also chicken, pork, and so on. Other than meat, there's also v-meat of all kinds: vegan alternatives to meat that have a very similar taste.

1: Lemon juice
2: Lytchee juice
3: Sour candies (with varying degrees of sourness)
4: Rice with curry
5: All sorts of snacks (e.g. Tortillas, of various tastes e.g. chili, curry, vinegar chips etc. anything)
6: Street food exists in at least one street per settlement.
7: 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.
8: Regular fruit and vegetables, e.g. lemons, oranges, tangerines, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes, bananas, strawberries, cherries, watermelons, grapes, melons, pears, apples, cabbage, broccoli, pineapple, etc.
9: Meat and v-meat (vegan meat) of all kinds, including the equivalents of dog meat, cat meat, snakes, bugs, scorpions, crocodiles etc. and foods that contain it, e.g. hamburgers, kebab, cheeseburgers, etc.
10: "Cola" (not necessarily Coca-Cola, even just Cola made by Pangean brands) of various tastes: standard, lemon, cherry, sour, super sour, watermelon, strawberry, alcoholic cola, cola with cocaine inside of it (it's still legal and sold in Pangea!) etc.
11: Udon noodles with vegetables, or with vegetables and eggs.
12: V-fish, as well as food that contains it, e.g. v-fish and chips, v-fish sticks, v-fish burgers!
13: Potatoes baked in the oven, and then you can add salt, oil, any sauce you want, anything else you want! E.g. rice with curry and potatoes!
14: Chocolate of various kinds, as well as chocolate cookies.
15: Halal, kosher, vegetarian, vegan foods, as well as foods for people who have allergies e.g. foods without gluten.
16: "Iblis Cuisine": a food brand that sells food that is specifically haram: pork, meat from animals that were not slaughtered in a halal way, alcohol, insects, reptiles etc. and those foods are packaged with illustrations of demons, Jinn etc. of course, the aesthetics can vary, for example there can be demons with kawaii aesthetics illustrated with it, demons with vaporwave aesthetics etc. all aesthetics. And of course, not all such foods are packaged as "Iblis Cuisine": pork can be packaged normally or even without any illustration at all. The "Iblis Cuisine" brand is specifically intended for people who find it important to consume haram foods, for various reasons. Of course, anyone who wants to buy it can buy it, eh.
17: Illuminati Chocolate Cookies: triangular shaped chocolate cookies. The lower part is the cookie, the upper part is mostly chocolate, with an eye shaped white part made of milk, and in the center of that eye-shaped milk part there's a brown chocolate dot that represents the pupil.
18: Fruit juice made of 90% orange juice and 10% lemon juice. It's quite sour, very tasty.

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!

5: Economy

Pangean economy is neither communist or capitalist, it's a partly planned economy contrived with the specific purpose of maximizing the alpha. Sometimes people choose their jobs, sometimes not, it depends. If there is a deficit of services or products due to a lack of workers, the Pangean government can assign jobs to some people to fix the deficit. That's called a needs-based conscription, and it's similar to military service in Gaia. However, a civilian can NEVER be asked to perform extreme tasks (such as risking one's life going to war), those are reserved to high ranking military members only! There are many ways to maximize the alpha, and the Pangean government tries its best to do so by minimizing suffering, unpleasantness and other negative things. There is a hierarchy of preferences in terms of workers. Matchers are technically on the top of the hierarchy, but since they are unreliable, it's necessary that there are regular workers to do that job as well. Here's the hierarchy, ordered from most preferred to least preferred:

1: Workers who specifically want to do that job
2: Workers who don't specifically want to do that job but find it meaningful anyway.
3: Workers who don't mind that job.
4: Workers who don't like that job but their negative mental states due to that job are minimal.
5: Workers who get moderately negative mental states from their job.
6: Workers who feel very stressed from their job.

Note that "minimizing the unpleasant mental states" does NOT mean "little suffering", not even "acceptable level of suffering", it just means that, among all the possible socio-economic configurations that maximize the alpha, the Pangean government tries to implement the one that causes the least suffering among those. The maximization of the alpha is still the highest priority, and it overrides anything else. Capitalism would cause "enshittification", planned obsolescence, dark patterns in user interfaces, and other things that would decrease the alpha significantly. Communism, on the other hand, with its forced equality, would also decrease the alpha by making sure nobody is left behind, dragging everyone else down as well. There is economic inequality in Pangea but there's also a minimum wage. The minimum wage is not necessarily given by the employer, it can also be given by the government, it depends, but the important thing is that each individual has at least an amount of money not only for basic necessities but also for basic entertainment as well. In capitalism, there's no floor and no ceiling (in terms of amount of money, or more correctly: purchase power), in communism, the floor is equal to the ceiling, in Pangea, there is a floor but no ceiling. However, everyone is forced to work in Pangea, and the government can assign jobs. The Pangean economy has elements that superficially resemble capitalism or socialism, but it's actually neither, and the end goal is neither maximization of profit nor maximization of economic equality, but rather, the maximization of the alpha: the variety of products and services available.

7: Demographics

Population: 1/10th of the Gaian population. Pangean population as of early 2026: around 800,000,000.
Ethnicity: gradient multiethnic. This is contrasted with the "sharp multiethnic" demographics of USA, Canada and Western Europe. The difference between the two is that gradient multiethnic means that ethnicity is not a number of distinct groups, but rather, a continuum with no sharp boundaries.
Religion: not officially counted. The existence of modular (i.e. eclectic) religions, the fact that people can change their minds over time and the lack of such information in the census makes such information impossible to obtain. However, due to causal isolation, as well as how easy it is in Pangea to only interact with people who agree with you (regardless of your beliefs), then whatever the religious composition of Pangea is, it won't affect your individual life in your free time.

8: Fun facts about Pangea

In no particular order

1: people in Pangea choose their own names! At birth, they are given a permanent identifier that consists of a sequence of letters and numbers and it's unique to each person, but it's important that each person remembers their own, as that's their official identifier. It's not a problem at all if one knows other people's official identifiers: it's just a sequence of letters and numbers used to identify someone, it's the equivalent of knowing someone's name and surname in Gaia, in terms of consequences. You can do absolutely nothing with it, so it's not something that you must keep secret. You can share it, you can keep it to yourself, it's up to you, nothing bad happens either case. The equivalent of Gaian "names" (e.g. John, Jane) in Pangea are "informal identifiers", which are chosen by the person themself! Before someone can choose their own names, as babies/toddlers/etc. they are given a temporary informal identifier, that is: [Mother AND father's name]'s son/daughter. After a child is sufficiently developed to choose their own name, they do that. Of course, that can be temporary (though it can be kept if an adult still likes it), and can be changed as often as one wants, even as an adult! The way the government identifies you in the documents and other legal situations is by your official identifier: the sequence of letters and numbers. That means, people will call you by your informal identifier, that is, the name you have chosen for yourself!The official identifier removes the need for surnames, so you don't have a surname (unless you choose to have a fake one in your informal identifier for aesthetic reasons, or to differentiate yourself from homonyms, in case your chosen name is very common)! The government knows who your parents are because it records those informations at birth.

2: in Pangea, gay marriage is legal, as well as polygamy (both polygyny and polyandry).

3: There are relatively large nudist sections of cities (though of course very small in proportion to the actual city itself), where people (18+ only) can go, and they can be naked: there are cinemas, restaurants etc. in nudist sections, just like in "standard" sections. Important rule: it is not allowed for nudist sections to have things that can only be experienced there! Everything that can be experienced in nudist sections (except for nudity itself, of course) must be able to be experienced in standard sections as well! Of course, there are also plenty of nudist beaches, since Pangea is an island. However, those nudist beaches are concentrated mainly in the tropical region: on the south-western coast of Pangea (around 30-40 degrees of latitude) there's a cold current, similar to the Humboldt current in Gaia, that makes the coastal waters, as well as summer air temperatures, really cold for the latitude. However, if you go even a tiny bit inland, the summers quickly become warm and even hot. It's a climatic phenomenon very similar to that of California (e.g. Eureka, California has much colder summers compared to Redding, California, at a similar latitude but more inland), western South America, and, to a less extent, western coastal Europe (e.g. Portugal and the north-western part of Spain, the Galicia), and some parts of southern Australia. The south-eastern coast of Pangea (around 30-40 degrees of latitude), on the other hand, has hot and rainy summers (though they tend to be hot desert climates around 22-32 degrees of latitude, and at even higher latitudes a bit more inland, though not on the coast north of 32 degrees north), and the water is relatively warm in the beaches in the summer, but the winters are very cold for the latitude (similar to east coast of the USA, or China/South Korea). That means, almost all proper beaches are concentrated below 30 degrees of latitude, though of course it's not forbidden to swim elsewhere.

4: Sex work is legal and regulated (not just sex but also all kinds of fetishes are available to be experienced). All drugs (even hard ones) are legal and regulated. Copyright exists but is different from that of Gaia. Some Gaian countries (e.g. Germany) have legalized sex work and have not been subject by any sanctions by Gaia as a whole, so sex work is allowed in Gaia: each Gaian country can decide about sex work. However, regarding drugs and modular copyright, those are banned by Gaia as a whole (by the UNG: United Nations of Gaia). So, Pangean laws are different from Gaian laws, which can make the relationship between the two difficult.

5: Pangea is very pro-gun, like the USA (it logically results from the idea behind this ideology... if a customer wants a gun... they must be able to get it). Even weapons like molotovs, rifles etc. are legal and sold in stores. Euthanasia is legal, though they make several checks when someone requests it, since it's such a serious decision.

6: It's illegal for an employer to contact someone for work-related reasons after they have finished their work hours, as that's considered "outreach", and a violation of the "sacredness" of free time (which is literally a core part of the Pangean values!). All work-related communication must be done within the work hours.

7: 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 Pangeans as well, but in terms of law, in Pangea 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 Pangea 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 Pangea, 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 Pangea, 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, Pangea 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 Pangea! 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 Pangea, 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 Pangea, 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).

8: Among other things, here are some things that are illegal in Pangea (except under VERY specific circumstances, such as with Matchers or as a performance act): murder, rape, torture, drunk driving, theft, asynchronicities etc. there is no death penalty in Pangea, and the maximum prison sentence is 30 years. Prisons have standards and prisoners cannot be tortured nor receive humiliating, abusive or degrading treatments.

9: Regarding blood donations: it is guaranteed, for people who need blood transfusions, that there's always enough blood available for them. The blood is taken from doctors: the first step is to search for volunteers among doctors, and in practice (de-facto), there are always enough volunteers among doctors. However, de-jure (by law), if no doctor volunteers, then the second step is to search for volunteers among the population in general. If even that second step fails, then some doctors will be coerced into donating their blood, prioritizing those who have a stronger, more resilient body and mind. A very important thing is that a doctor must NEVER be selected based on what they did in their free time, as that would be an asynchronicity: the method of selection must be 100% transparent and very detailed. By law, a non-doctor can NEVER be coerced into donating their blood: if someone who is a plumber, a baker, a videogame player, a professional companion, or some job like that were to be coerced into donating their blood, it'd be an activity that is way too dissonant compared to their job, and their delta would be considered unacceptably high. In practice, doctors understand how things work, and there are always more than enough volunteers to meet the needs for people who need blood transfusions.