Demichronia (new text)

Geography and climate

History (coming soon!)

Demichronia again (basic description)

Fact-checking, content warnings, and "saturation of information"

History

Work in progress, the customer/worker distinction existed since antiquity but of course each historical period has their own technological limitations, resulting in drastic lifestyle differences. The worker/customer divide and the fact that customers must be pleased by workers as much as possible remains a constant throughout SD history. Note that "being pleased by workers" doesn't mean that a worker must please all wishes of a customer (as that would be isomorphic), but rather, that every wish (except those involving violence, death, or extreme stuff that even the most resilient workers would never want to be subjected to) is pleased by at least one worker. That is, for every wish, there is at least one worker whose job is to fulfill that specific type of wish (and only that specific type of wish, as jobs are restricted in scope, e.g. a plumber is not required to kiss you as an offered service, as that's not the role of a plumber). The flag of SD is the same as the polyamory flag. As history progresses, it's the rule that technology improves and work scopes become narrower (full scope = slavery; the narrower the role, the more "free" one is, non-existent role = full freedom... full freedom in the future? I'll see, maybe... likely... with AGI?)

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

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

Information centers, and schools

Schools in SD mostly serve the purpose of giving information and verifying that the student has learned that information. The axioms for schools in SD are a bit different (but not that much) from those of Gaia: the schools in SD teach information necessary and/or useful to become good workers, as well as informations related to the wishes one can express, e.g. a random example, if one (as an adult) wants to drink alcohol, then one can express that wish, since alcohol and all drugs are legal in SD, but when one wishes something, it's useful that that person knows the characteristics of the wished thing. The schools won't give moral judgements on the wishes (as long as they're legal), but it will give information on the characteristics of wishable things. Without schools, life in SD could become a minefield of bad decisions. Even with schools, one can make bad decisions, but at least one knows what they're getting into!

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

Lists of random ideas

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

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

Food: all vegetarian food you can think of exists in SD, and it's easily accessible regardless of where you are!

-Lemon juice
-Lytchee juice
-Sour candies (with varying degrees of sourness)
-Rice with curry
-Meat (or rather, something indistinguishable from it in terms of taste and texture) that was created without killing animals: equivalents of dog meat, cat meat, bugs, rats, snakes, scorpions etc. as well as foods that include (the equivalent of) meat in it, e.g. cheeseburgers etc. Again, if I say "meat" in this page I mean equivalents of meat that was created without killing animals, I'll just say "meat" because it's shorter.
-All sorts of snacks (e.g. Tortillas, of various tastes e.g. chili, curry, vinegar chips etc. anything)
-Street food exists in at least one street per settlement.
-Equivalent of 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.

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

Games:

-Various crazy fan-made ports (e.g. Tekken 6 for the PS2)
-Fan-games, modded games, ROM HACKS (of any console, from the NES... including PS5 games! No limits (though, due to technology, there is a distinction between pre-AI era and AI era). Copyright-wise: fan games are allowed, even to be sold, but part of the income must be redirected to the original IP holders. The more different the derivative game is from the original, the lesser the amount of money will go to the original IP holders.

Content:

-TV channels about pretty much anything you can think of. Not to mention the Internet!
-Blogs, videos etc. about anything!

Technology:

-Flip-phones of all kinds
-Javascript-free Internet (for those who prefer it, but there's also normal Internet with Javascript)
-Customizable themes (for websites and OS)

Stuff:

-Plushies of pretty much anything you can think of
--Fetish plushies of various things, including monster-girls etc. may also be a hybrid plushie/sex-toy.
-Any clothing you want e.g. you can dress as a penguin, you can wear whatever you want, and clothing shops have *lots* of stuff, anything you want!
-An automatic fruit juice extractor: you put the fruit (without the peel if it's not edible and/or if you don't want the peel juice, of course!) inside and it extracts as much juice as possible! E.g. you put an orange in there (without the peel, of course) and you get the juice, no manual work needed!
-A toy about a hand that does the middle finger and comes out of a toilet, and can reproduce "fuck you" in various languages by pressing a button on its remote (that contains various flags that represent languages).
-Books of the Bible and the Quran (and other religious/philosophical books) with illustrations in every aesthetic, including those generally not associated with religion and philosophy, like Corporate Memphis and anime style. A Quran with illustrations would be haram due to iconography, but it wouldn't contradict the axiom of SD, which is basically "(almost) everything you can think of is available to obtain and/or experience, 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" experiences (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 internal coherence: Islam is against iconography, and yet such book (Quran with illustrations) must exist. However, the role of the government (and schools) is to provide context, that's why in SD media there are often "trigger warnings" and the like, or additional context. 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. In a society like SD, where pretty much everything and its opposite is available to buy, context provided by an "official" source is very important! And this, by the way, as mentioned before, is how the government in SD 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 the experience. They can be turned on and off as one wishes, and trigger warnings (but not fact-checking) 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.
-A Sudoku with hentai illustrations.

Activities:

-Violent IRL shows, like a modern day Colosseum: customer pay to participate, and other customers pay to watch. All-consensual (I suppose there are people who want to participate and even pay for that! If not, then no violent IRL shows)
-Street fights: either, if the fighters are workers, the fights are fake or physical damage is pretty much non-existent... of if they fighters are customers... then the customers can decide up to what level of damage they want to risk being subjected to... and other customers who are interested in the fight may watch the fight.
-Fetish centers (e.g. where one can smell a girl's feet or farts if they want to, or have sex with people in furry costumes), sex work of all kinds.
-Street food where you can eat all sorts of stuff, including (the vegan/vegetarian equivalent of... but I won't repeat it again!) bugs, rats, snakes, scorpions etc.
-You can pay for friends (and partners). Yeah. But 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 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 SD, whenever economically feasible. You can treat a professional friend badly, but only some of them, and only if they specifically offer "being treated badly" as part of their service! It's likely there won't be many of those, so the price may be very high, and not very affordable. Those people that offer that service are selected for their emotional resilience, and the majority of professional friends don't offer "being treated badly" as a service!
-Places where you can pay to set things on fire. I call them "Pyromaniac fun centers".
-Water parks
-"Mud parks"(?): like water parks but with mud instead of water!
-Strip clubs where you can play billiard, watch semi-naked women (or even totally naked... or men even), and drink alcoholic cocktails, or playing poker or do some other gambling activities. The building is full of neon lights, both outside and inside. It creates a certain, specific aesthetics, perhaps reminiscent of some Las Vegas buildings. I don't know the name of that specific aesthetics, I'd have to research it, but I think I've expressed the concept clearly. Of course, there are places for every aesthetic thinkable!
-Kart racing.
-Places where you pay to destroy things (rage rooms?)
-You can pay someone to tell you a "bedtime story". Now, telling people "bedtime stories" is an incredibly specific job, so it's likely those workers do some other, somewhat related things as well, perhaps companionship-related, like chatting?
-Outdoor public discussion forums. All consensual, of course OuO
-You can find a "community" for anything! Of course, there is a distinction in the roles of the workers (e.g. the staff of that community) and the other customers, and I'll explain it in more detail eventually.
-Maid cafe with barely dressed (or even nude) girls/guys serving you food. These places are 18+. They can also be clothed if the customer wants to, and for each type of clothing, there is at least one worker that will wear it for you.
-"Clubs" where one's own biases can be fed... an offline echo chamber, basically. The club managers may or may not actually believe in those biases (though I guess they usually do, unless it's some extremely specific ideology, in that case it's a personalized service offered to just one individual), but they do that for money... it's their job to provide that service to the customers! E.g. "white supremacy clubs", from "white" immigrants (from Gaia) who are basically grifters. I don't know what the ethnic composition of SD would be, it's not important, but I guess that somehow, some people from Gaia managed to got there, idk. Not just "white supremacy", of course, that's just one example... there are "clubs" for EVERY ideology, hobby and interest! And every aesthetic, as well! So, some may prefer hanging around people who have a certain aesthetics (e.g. 1980's rock aesthetics, or furry aesthetics) without having to commit to any idea or activity, just for the aesthetics, and there is a "club" for them. Of course, they must pay to join and stay. There may be other customers in those clubs, who are in no circumstance obligated to please other customers. In case no other customer wants to do activities with a certain customer, workers (e.g. the managers of that club) will do that, in order to assure every customer is always pleased and entertained, and never feel excluded.
-Copyright is more flexible, fan arts for money exist, but they have to pay a certain percentage to the original IP holders. The entertainment industry in SD is HUGE (to cater to the tastes of as many customers as possible, even the most obscure niches have tons of content in SD).
-You can buy and use drugs, any drug, even hard ones. If that's what you want to do in your free time...
-There is plenty of super blasphemous content, like, "Prophet Muhammad drowning in piss", either drawings, animated movies, or action figures of Prophet Muhammad (or Jesus... or anyone else, really) being put inside a glass of actual piss. But there's also lots of "halal" content in media, or halal food in supermarkets etc. the point is that every taste and preference is satisfied. If someone likes blasphemous content, there is plenty of that, if someone is a Christian or a Muslim, there's also plenty of stuff that respects your values and it's easy to follow your restrictions. There's also plenty of kosher food etc.
-Themed parks (e.g. dinosaur themed)
-"Relax centers" where one can go after job, to relax from the stress of one's job.
-You can go play Dungeon and Dragons (you pay for it, of course!), the other people in your party playing with you are either other customers, or workers that get paid to play with customers... or a mix of both! The Dungeon Master is usually almost always a worker, I suppose!
-Nudist beaches.
-Astronomic observatory where you can use an advanced telescope to see the Moon up close (and perhaps Saturn if the telescope is advanced enough?).
-Competition of racist jokes/sentences. You pay to join the competition, against lots of other participants, and whoever says the most offensive thing wins a prize.
-Games similar to Takeshi's Castle, which you can pay to participate in. Winners may get a prize. There are also TV shows about that.
-Practice Yoga.
-Water parks.
-You can pay to participate in an IRL game where you are a detective and have to find out a "criminal" (it's not real, just a game, an act... but it can be fun for some!).
-Videogame competitions/tournaments!
-A fun indoor park pretty much the same as the Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII.
-Disco with music in it, and there may be several activities.
-Cinema.
-Going to the beach. Likely free to just go to a beach, but the various activities available (and there are likely many!) are accessible through payment.
-Live concerts of every type of music you can think of!
-Karaoke.
-Various festivals.
-You can easily ride a bike if you want, there are bike lanes everywhere!
-Shopping!!! (supermarkets in SD have pretty much everything, lmao!)
-Cosplay festivals
-A place where you can interact with a (fictional) group of fairies in a forest! The forest is real, the "fairies" are just girls (or guys, too) in fairy costumes role-playing as fairies for the customers' entertainment. Some of the "fairies" may offer sexual services. If not, then it's surely possible to pay someone to wear a fairy costume, go to a place in a forest, and offer the sexual service, or even just a romantic one. There are people whose job is "cosplay sex worker", and basically they're like sex workers but they also do cosplays and roleplays. A normal sex worker may not offer that specific service, I suppose. Every worker has their own role, it cannot be too broad.
-Go see a physical original size recreation of Peach's castle of Super Mario 64. It's likely a very attractive tourist attraction. What is the relationship with Nintendo, or whether Nintendo would allow it, is undefined. It's possible that the owners of the museum pay a royalty to Nintendo, or that SD has its own laws regarding copyright and they don't have to abide by international copyright laws necessarily (though that may lead to economic sanctions against SD). Idk, I may decide eventually, but one thing's sure: the castle DOES exist in SD! The relationships that SD has with Nintendo and the rest of Gaia are speculative, but it's very likely that they won't be too good, because SD's laws/ideology/culture violates several International Treaties of Gaia (e.g. the treaty that criminalizes drugs). So it's likely that economic relationships between SD and Gaia are rather difficult. In any case, if Gaia doesn't allow its content on SD, then SD pirates and creates derivative content from Gaia, by definition.
-A penis museum. A museum that displays mummified penises of various animals, including a mummified penis of a human from ancient SD, and in the museum there are texts on the walls with explanations about penises in general, or some "fun facts" about penises.
-For those who like to vandalize buildings' walls with text or other stuff through spray paint: there are buildings made specifically for that. You pay, and for a set time you can have a certain portion of a wall that is "yours" to "decorate" with whatever text or symbol or drawing you want (even with all profanities and offensive stuff you want, if that's what you want). You pay for the service and, if you don't have a spray paint bottle with you, you are offered one (or more than one, with different colors), but that also costs additional money. As a result of the existence of this service, some buildings in SD, or rather, some parts of the city have "vandalized" walls, though this is intentional. There are also some parts of the city devoid of such "decorated" walls. You can generally find both "types" within a 30 minute walk.
-Churches, mosques, synagogues, Buddhist temples, Satanic temples, Neo-Pagan plages of worship (of all kinds) etc. as well as modular buildings for worship of minority religions or even religions made up and believed by a single individual. In the modular places of worship, the "priest" or otherwise the people working in it will adapt on a customer by customer case. If an individual has made up their own religion, they can send the description of the religion and description of the request (of what the worker(s) should do) to the worker(s) of that modular place of worship, and the worker(s) will do as told by the customer. In exchange of money, of course.. all places of worship, including mosques, Christian churches etc. cost money to enter and participate, though cheap enough a minimum wage worker can afford to go there every day.
-"Cuddle Therapy".
-Asking someone (a professional companion) to watch a movie with you, in exchange of money. Note that each professional companion may have limits regarding the content of the movie you want to watch with them, e.g. if the professional companion finds that movie offensive or otherwise uncomfortable, they won't offer that service. However, for every movie, there must be at least one worker you can pay to watch that movie with you!
-If you feel undecided about something, you can go to an expert of the subject of the thing that you're undecided about, and let them make the choice for you. For people who are terrified of making their own choices in life, this can feel convenient. You can of course choose the "type" of advice you get. You can get, say, "official truth advice", advice based on a centralized, official truth provided by the government, but you can also select "ideology advice", that is, let's say you're a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a minimalist, a Stoic etc. you can get advice based on those ideologies too, if that's what you ask for!

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

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

"Proportion-independent society"

Sandboxed Demichronia approximates a "proportion-independent society", that is, a society that will feel mostly the same to individuals regardless of the demographics composition in terms of culture, religion, political ideology, worldview, philosophy etc. In Gaia, a society that is 95% Muslim will be very oppressive for homosexual people and religious minorities etc. but Sandboxed Demichronia has social mechanisms that cause what I call "causal isolation". That is, actions done by individuals have little to no power to change the life experiences of anyone else other than oneself. Due to "causal isolation", the religious/philosophical/ideological/political composition of SD's society is almost entirely irrelevant to the life of any individual. This makes SD what I call "proportion-independent society".

Example of modularity (though there is *A LOT* more to say about that): foods in restaurants are made of a collection of interchangeable ingredients, rather than complete, indivisible meals. Reason why modularity is very important in SD: by making it easy to combine ingredients, it increases the likelihood that a customer has what they want. *Modularity* is a very important concept to keep in mind throughout this page (not just about foods, of course, this was merely an example to illustrate the concept).

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. Hypothesis for drug legalization outcome: less drug-related crime (e.g. no violence related to rival drug gangs having conflicts with each other), drugs are controlled (e.g. a heroin addict won't accidentally get addicted to Fentanyl), though the substance itself remains dangerous, for obvious reasons, but the dangers that are unrelated to the characteristics and effects of the substance itself and arise from the fact that drugs are illegal are reduced or perhaps even eliminated. Since drugs are taxed (like everything else, thought the amount and extent of taxes is unspecified for now, in this first draft), it provides revenue for the government, and since they're legal, police has less work to do (compared to, if everything else is equal, drugs were illegal).

Copyright: copyright exists in this system but fan-art is allowed, provided royalties are paid to the original IP holders. Products (e.g. videogames) are, as said before, modular. E.g. videogames are not considered (by law) as a whole, indivisible product, but rather as a collection of parts (e.g. assets, levels, soundtracks, dialogues, voice acting etc.). The more of those parts a fan-art uses, the more the percentage of money will go to the original IP holders. That is, the less derivative the fan-art is, the higher the percentage of money will go to the original IP holders. It is possible to copy the game 100% and sell it, BUT in that case it must be sold at the price of the game that is copied and 100% of the money will go to the original IP holders. The more different the fan-art is from the original product, the less money will go to the original IP holders. This modular approach may (maybe?) permit a balance between copyright and fan-art. The absence of copyright would discourage large companies from creating entertainment, leaving only hobby projects that are unlikely to be of high quality, whereas prohibiting fan-art would go against "customer service" e.g. if one wants some fan-game mash-up of two of their favourite games, or any fan-art really, prohibiting fan-art would lead to more unfulfilled wishes. This approach may maximize "customer gratification" (compared to other approaches), if my understanding is correct.

Internet: almost every type of content (except doxxing, or non-consensual stuff etc.) must be available, and the "browsing experience" must be customizable. The idea is more similar to 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 algorithm that you cannot freely customize or remove. SD Internet can also have "feeds" if you want them, but they're not compulsory, and they can be easily customizable. This reduces the possibility of "accidentally stumbling upon unwanted content". 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 as central to the SD 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. Internet websites must have two versions. "Original vision" website and "customer-oriented" website. "Original vision" website may be whatever the creator(s) of the website want it to be, they can censor stuff, put whatever they want. "Customer-oriented" website means that the customer decides what the website is like, as such, it must be hyper-personalizable (with CSS themes or other ways of theming the website however the customer wants, or for example, it MUST work without Javascript, in case the customer wants to disable Javascript), and there should be freedom of speech. SD is very pro-free speech, but in a weird way that would confuse Gaians: more details about this will be written below because there are some things to specify about "free speech" in SD. Also, websites necessarily must have various "light" versions, for various hardware: the lightest versions of all should be able to run on text-based browsers with very limited RAM and very low specs. If they're video-only websites, then a text-based version of it should exist, to see at least the titles and descriptions of those videos, and other text content! 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).

Free speech (in SD it's "PAID SPEECH" though LMAOOO): what many online people (who are usually either anti-free speech or pro-free speech) don't understand is that speech is a two-way thing: there is a speaker and there is a listener. The customer vs worker distinction here remains very important. A customer should be able to access all the "speech" (i.e. content) they want (though it costs money, e.g. a book costs money, of course, and in order to access content online you must pay for a monthly online connection, it's not free, of course). E.g. if you want to buy Mein Kampf, sure, pay the money and you can have that book. If you want to hear racist things, sure. There are also "in real life events" (e.g. conferences) where certain things will be said, and it costs money to hear that stuff. The important thing to remember is that this "access to content" is a result of the desire of the customer, and that the customer pays for that desire to be fulfilled. One has pretty much complete freedom of speech and what I call "freedom to seek" (e.g. as I said before, the freedom to access any content one wishes, rather than producing it). Spontaneous social interactions are a different matter, however, and it's not the same thing as accessing content. You may not say offensive things to a worker unless it's a worker whose job is to specifically being said those things, e.g. emotional support for anger, or a professional companion that offers the service of "being treated badly" etc. but in normal cases, that's not a service most workers offer. Interactions with a normal worker e.g. a cashier at a supermarket or a waiter at a restaurant have some rules and norms, you can't be disrespectful or aggressive, and they should treat the customer well, too!

Crime: some things are crimes, of course. E.g. theft, non-consensual physical violence, sexual assault, murder, drunk driving etc.

SD 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 etc. are legal and sold in stores. Euthanasia is legal. There is social welfare: everyone is entitled to a minimum wage, though they are forced to work, and it's sometimes the case they don't choose their jobs, like in Communist countries. Sometimes they can fully choose and sometimes they can only choose between some options, depends! In any case, if one does not choose their job, the people doing non-chosen jobs are selected with the goal of minimizing physical and psychological harm. Anyway, the economy in SD is not Communist, but more similar to State Capitalism, but not exactly... it's complex, and I haven't fully decided every detail. It doesn't have to be "good" (note: SD is not meant to be a utopia or a dystopia, just a thought experiment, although I try to minimize the amount of coercion as much as possible), it just has to be the one that is most likely to maintain the "Demichronic" situation. It's not Communism, as there is currency (money) and income inequalities.

Anyway, there are income inequalities (the surveillance and control needed to maintain economic equality, e.g. like in Communism, would decrease the "customer wish fulfillment" and therefore would go against this system). Minimum income in this system is enough not only to survive but to have some basic daily entertainment as well! Though you are literally forced to work, and it's sometimes the case the government chooses your job (like it happens in Communist countries), and sometimes people choose their own jobs, it depends! The important thing is that (almost) every wish should have at least one worker whose job is to satisfy it. Businesses are usually either owned or strongly regulated by the state and centralized, to ensure the maximization of "customer service/gratification" (I use these terms mostly interchangeably, lol), which would not be maximized if business owners decided the rules for the services/products provided by that business, because it's often the case that the profit motive keeps companies from making products the way people desire (think about the "enshittification" and "planned obsolescence"). I'm not an expert on economy but... somehow the SD state tries to maximize the variety of products, so that every taste can be satisfied. I suspect it's technically possible IRL but I suppose it'd require some really convoluted economic decisions contrived specifically for that purpose! Business workers and owners can keep the money, provided all the workers are paid at least the minimum wage. If a business closes, then the services and products provided by that business MUST be provided by at least one business in an area that is accessible to the customer (e.g. in the same city, preferably within 15 minutes of walking).

Urban planning: 15 minutes cities. Ideally, at the very least for necessities, products and services should be available within a 15 minute walk from every customer. If something is not a necessity, then it may be expanded to 30 minutes, but it should be accessible. There are bike lanes everywhere, making it easy to cycle. Reasoning: if a customer wants to ride a bike around, or walk, they ought to be allowed to. Cars are also allowed, of course, but they should not be a requirement for living a normal life. Neighborhoods are mixed residential and business. No "suburbia", unlike the USA cities built and developed post-WWII. Various parts of the city may have different aesthetics, so one can live or stay in places with their preferred aesthetics: e.g. cottagecore parts of the city, cyberpunk aesthetics part of the city, medieval aesthetics etc. but those are optional and it's easy to avoid them if you don't want to see them. The rule is that "themed" parts of the city must NOT have any product or service that is only available to that part of the city!!!

Protests are allowed with permits and only in certain areas, and only if you pay! Reasoning: if a customer wants to protest, they should be allowed, but as with everything else in SD, you have to pay in order to get a "protest permit". If a customer wants to *see* a protest, they are allowed, but they should also pay (not the protester, of course, since those are also customers... unless that's a staged fake protest purely for entertainment!). If a customer *does NOT* want to see a protest, they are allowed to not see it, so protests are only allowed in protest-designated areas. It's an in-between, between so-called "free countries", that allow more disruptive protests, and authoritarian countries which do not allow protests at all. It seems like SD is often a mix of extremes, as I'm seeing so far! Interesting!

There will be interesting activities, such as "rage rooms" or "pyromaniac fun centers" where people can burn things, in a safe, controlled environments. This is a logical result of the idea behind this ideology. As mentioned before, you can pay not just for sex but also for friends. Like, a "friendship session" for one or more hours cost a certain amount of money. In Gaia there are, I'm aware, some people who use therapists as the closest approximation for "friends", leading to an unsatisfactory experience, because of course, therapists are not meant to be friends, but something different. Not just sex or friends, but you can also pay for "romantic experiences" (which may or may not include sex).

There are also "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, but they do that for money... it's their job to provide that service to the customers! E.g. "white supremacy clubs", from "white" (i.e. European) immigrants from Gaia, who are basically either grifters or they actually believe in that, but that does not matter at all. 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), 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 (that's a "customer to customer" interaction, and as such there is no obligation to do anything for other customers). In case no other customer wants to do activities with a certain customer, workers (e.g. the managers of that club) will do that, in order to assure every customer is always pleased and entertained, and never feel excluded. It's basically paying to have your biases fed, paying for validation and "community" (even though that "community" is just staged interactions for money... but it also may be "real" to some extent, e.g. spontaneous interactions between the customers who are part of that club).

There is plenty of super blasphemous content, like, "Prophet Muhammad drowning in piss", either drawings, animated movies, or action figures of Prophet Muhammad (or Jesus, or Buddha... or anyone else, really) being put inside a glass of actual piss, for example. And not to mention, Rule 34 (sexual scenes involving religious and/or historical figures). But there's also lots of "halal" content in media, or halal food in supermarkets etc. the point is that every taste and preference must be satisfied, and as such, the highest variety of content possible must exist, and able to be accessed if one wants to see it (but also able to easily be ignored... the social infrastructure may be optimized for that). 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 in your life. There's also plenty of halal food, kosher food, vegetarian/vegan food etc. in restaurants and supermarkets. It's not *necessarily* the case that ALL businesses must have those products, BUT they should be available within 15 minutes of walking from every customer. If they are not available elsewhere, at least one supermarket within a 15 minute walking area will be COMPELLED by the government to have such products.

You can go play Dungeon and Dragons (you pay for it, of course!), the other people in your party playing with you are either other customers, or workers that get paid to play with customers... or a mix of both! The Dungeon Master is usually almost always a worker!

There are plenty nudist beaches.

-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. All work-related communication must be done within the work hours.

-Regarding "customer-oriented websites", they are more expensive compared to "original vision" websites, which may be free. For example, you can pay to remove ads and tracking, or to customize the website exactly the way you want it, with themes and features fully customizable (e.g. you can put a retro or kawaii theme on any website, or for example on social media you can pay to hide "distracting" stats such as number of followers, likes or views). The law requires websites to have such "customer-oriented" versions, even though you have to pay a subscription for it. If the website refuses to create it (e.g. they have not enough money or time), the government will create such website (and the content of the original website will be proxied into the customer-oriented version, as mirroring it would be a waste of server storage), and will pay the creators of the original website some money, and most of the money from subscriptions will go to the original creators. If the creators of the original website create the customer-oriented version as well, they can keep all the money.

About schools in SD (to be expanded eventually)

Schools in SD often have the same subjects as schools elsewhere, but they are particularly focused on preparing students for two important aspects of their lives:

• Work. One has to study psychology, physics, mathematics, history, programming classes etc. just like everywhere else, but there's a focus on making the subjects relatable to prepare the students for work, e.g. psychology can be associated with having to please customers, physics can be associated with building things, or working with substances, or other things, programming classes may prepare a student to work on software development etc. basically subjects are, whenever possible, associated with possible work uses. Of course, in practice, this likely wouldn't be too different from Gaian schools!
• Wishing. School teaches various things, including the characteristics of wishable things, including things that could be wished as adults e.g. alcohol, in order to prepare the youth to be able to know the characteristics of the things they wish. Schools don't give moral judgements about wishable things, they just give accurate and neutral informations so that people can make their decisions in life. There are subjects such as sex education, the effects of alcohol (a part of chemistry subjects, I guess) and drugs (all drugs are legal in SD), students learn about various ideologies and their characteristics, philosophy etc. it's very open, and no moral judgements are given. Basically, school teaches things related to work and wishable things, so that when the students are adults, they're ready to live in the SD society!

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

-Video games (though you have to pay to play them, just like every other activity during lunch break, including the lunch food itself)
-Physical games (e.g. sports, card games that can be played in less than one hour, and other stuff, I guess)
-A place where you can either (list in increasing order of cost): read a book during the break, or rent the book for some time (so you can read it at home), or even buy the book permanently! Not just books, but also movies, videogames (as I said before), music (with headphones or headphones, otherwise the logistics of pleasing everyone would become rather difficult), and other forms of media!
-A sort of "club" where people (workers) say stuff like "tired of school rules? come here, then!". In that place you can do a lot of stuff: swear, say offensive things, there's even a "rage room" where you can destroy stuff, insult any teacher that you don't like! Only behind their backs though, because the teachers' job is to teach, not to be insulted! It's not allowed to be disrespectful to teachers!. Of course, teachers cannot mistreat students either. The school logic mimicks that of the broader SD society: students are like workers, they go to school under coercion (like in Gaia), and therefore that cannot be considered "free time", but "work time", and students get paid for their "work" (i.e. passing tests). During lunch break, students are like customers, and they can spend the money that they either received from the tests or got from their parents for the lunch food and leisure activities. They can also save it and use that money outside of school (e.g. to buy a videogame, or a phone, or some cool stuff, or go to a restaurant, whatever they want), of course! Oh, also, in this "rebel club", the more "rebellious" you behave, the more compliments you will get from... well, the people who get paid to run the club, of course! The compliments are something along the lines that you're "cool" or something like that, to play on the rebel aesthetics. This may please teenagers and, perhaps more importantly for the SD government, it brings money!
-Other stuff (I'll have to think about it!)

Subjects and ratings in schools:

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

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

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

Modular ideologies

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

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

Ideologies + aesthetics combinations

1: Conservative Christianity with Corporate Memphis aesthetics.
2: "Woke" (for a lack of a better word) ideologies with Renaissance paintings.
3: Wicca with space-colonization/sci-fi aesthetics.
4: National Socialism (Nazism) with pink kawaii aesthetics.
5: More may be coming soon!

Fact-checking, content warnings, and "saturation of information"

Fact-checking and content warnings in SD are more pedantic than the ones contained in Gaia, but the content itself is always fully available. There are also censored versions of media but of course they're optional, they're available for people who don't want to see certain scenes or types of content. Both censored and non-censored versions of media exist, depending on the preferences of the customer, and one is fully free to choose which one to see. Media often has fact-checking, content warnings, "context" and other forms of notes provided by a centralized authority. One example that I've mentioned before is the Quran with illustrations. Iconography is haram in Islam, and yet the Quran with illustrations necessarily exists in SD. However, on the back of the book, there's "context" that the SD 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 SD, and also for people who want a more "authentic" experience. As for the content itself, the SD 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 SD, of course. For interactive digital media (e.g. videogames), such warnings are opt-out, they can be disabled in the settings if one does not want to see them, but they are necessarily displayed for the first time that one plays that game. From the second time on, it's up to the player to decide whether or not to see those warnings.

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