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This is one of those long-term domes, where you can’t quite get the full
experience unless you immerse yourself in the setting, and really forget about
your old life. You have to shed your past, and become your character, or
you’re playing someone else’s game. The premise is that you are a member of a
spy agency in one of eleven nations. Your task is to complete missions for
your agency, according to whatever your superiors demand of you. Like I said,
this is long-term, so you won’t just instantly become a spy. You will start as
a trainee, and work your way up. Or you won’t. There’s every chance that
you’ll fail. You have to pass the physical and written exams. I’m
pretty sure that they’re easier to take than the real ones on Earth,
but I’ve never been a real spy before, so I don’t really know. How well you do
is entirely up to your own, natural skills. There is no way to know how far
any other player gets, because we’re not technically meant to out ourselves to
each other, but my boss may be another visitor. I really don’t know. It really
doesn’t matter. What you do is up to you as well. Even though you have
superiors, you are not a robot, and you are capable of making your own
decisions. If you just wanna lounge about your apartment all day everyday,
you’ll probably get fired for that, but you won’t get killed. Unless you’ve
done enough spying to put you in danger. You’ll probably only get killed if
you go out in the field, or as I was saying, if you’re attacked at home by an
enemy. Each nation exists under its own dome, and its backstory is as rich and
complex as they are in real life. The relationships between these fictional
countries are complicated, and ever-changing. If you were to leave and come
back 100 years from now, I’m sure alliances will have shifted. One of them
might have been blown up in a nuclear war; I dunno. I couldn’t tell you
exactly how far the program will let you take this, but it seems like a pretty
decent free-for-all. Each might be one of the eleven most heavily populated
domes on the planet, as most don’t need to feel quite as lived in as
somewhere in the network. But here, you can go anywhere within your bounds,
and if you secure a passport to another country, you can go there too.
It’s a really interesting experience, and I’ve only been doing it for about a
year and a half at this point. Obviously, I’m writing this anonymously,
because there’s no reason a competing agency couldn’t use this information
against my own. The android intelligences might not understand where a
visitor spy got their intel if it came from an out-of-universe source, but
they might act on it anyway. There’s a lot you can learn about the countries,
and international affairs, from the comfort of your tablet using the
prospectus, but to really grasp what it’s like to live here, you’ll have to
sign up, and integrate yourself into this new society. You choose your own
adventure. I don’t know the psychological ramifications of starting a new life
that could potentially be as long as a standard lifetime, but perhaps that’s
part of what they’re studying here. I’m sure the results will be fascinating.
