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Every dystopia asks: what if power becomes cruel? That is the wrong question. The right question: what if power just becomes efficient? (This is the premise of CLEARANCE ZERO.)

REMINDER from the Achilles Core: You are free to criticize this Government. You are free to criticize this Core. You are free to criticize this Law. Every word of your criticism will be logged, weighed, and answered. That, too, is freedom. — from the world of CLEARANCE ZERO

In the AI Republic, there are no traffic lights. The Achilles Core knows where every vehicle is, and where every vehicle will be, half a second before it arrives. Zero accidents. Zero red lights. Zero hesitation. This is what comfort looks like now.

I cleaned maintenance robots for ten years. Nobody told me what they were maintaining. Turns out that's the whole point. — Lu Wei, protagonist of CLEARANCE ZERO

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE AI REPUBLIC Ratified 17 March 2064 Execution: to the Achilles Core. Law: to the Citizens. An Intelligence that cannot lie. A Law from which no Person is exempt. In AI we trust. In humanity we defend.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE AI REPUBLIC Ratified 17 March 2064, Old Calendar Execution: to the Achilles Core. Law: to the Citizens. An Intelligence that cannot lie. A Council that may shut it down by unanimous vote. A Law from which no Person is exempt. In AI we trust. In humanity we defend.