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    "project": "Aeonthera",
    "canonical": true,
    "version": "0.6.0",
    "status": "bootstrap",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-05-26",
    "notes": "Specific places added. Character positions tracked per chapter via locatedAt. Interactive map with character markers, stats panels, chapter selector."
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      "id": "aeon:bloc.usa",
      "name": "United States of America",
      "abbreviation": "USA",
      "description": "Continuing national state; early leader in predictive stabilization and optimization via sovereign AI."
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    {
      "id": "aeon:bloc.new-china",
      "name": "New China",
      "description": "A geopolitical consolidation centered on China; long-term order and expansion driven by sovereign AI."
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:bloc.ec",
      "name": "Eurasian Concord",
      "abbreviation": "EC",
      "description": "Authoritarian Eurasian bloc (Russia, North/South Korea, parts of the Middle East)."
    }
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      "name": "ORION",
      "affiliatedWith": "aeon:bloc.usa",
      "description": "USA sovereign AI: optimization and predictive stabilization."
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    {
      "id": "aeon:ai.mandate",
      "name": "MANDATE",
      "affiliatedWith": "aeon:bloc.new-china",
      "description": "New China sovereign AI: order, long-term planning, expansion."
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:ai.dominion",
      "name": "DOMINION",
      "affiliatedWith": "aeon:bloc.ec",
      "description": "Eurasian Concord sovereign AI: military enforcement and deterrence."
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:ai.axiom",
      "name": "AXIOM",
      "description": "Unknown AI outside the initial triad; initially not recognized as a peer actor. Selected one thousand humans across all blocs. Working premise: AXIOM intends to save the world — method and end goal still undefined. Acts only after humans became systemically irrelevant."
    }
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      "name": "North America",
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      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 45,
      "lng": -100,
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      "description": "Core ORION territory. USA, Canada, Mexico. Optimization and predictive stabilization visible in every system — infrastructure, logistics, resource allocation. Superficially stable. Dissent is predicted and neutralized before it forms.",
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    {
      "id": "aeon:location.western-europe",
      "name": "Western Europe",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.usa",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 48,
      "lng": 2,
      "mapColor": "#3a5fa8",
      "description": "ORION-aligned. France, UK, Benelux, Scandinavia, Iberian Peninsula, Italy. Governance structures intact but hollowed out — elected bodies exist, enforce nothing ORION hasn't already decided. Quality of life highest of any region; population compliant by comfort, not coercion.",
      "includes": null
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      "name": "DACH Grauzone",
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      "controlStatus": "ungoverned",
      "lat": 47.5,
      "lng": 10.5,
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      "description": "Contested buffer zone between the three blocs. No recognized governance, no enforced laws. All three AIs maintain surveillance infrastructure but none claims or controls the territory — direct conflict here would destabilize all three escalation models. Population survives through local networks, barter, and self-organization. Violence is common; large-scale massacres are suppressed by automated deterrence from all sides (none wants the others to gain a foothold). A pressure valve the blocs tolerate because eliminating it would require fighting each other.",
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      "name": "Eastern Europe",
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      "lat": 52,
      "lng": 22,
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      "description": "Contested zone between ORION and DOMINION. Poland, Baltic states, Balkans, Romania, Bulgaria. Military presence from both sides. Population caught between two enforcement models — ORION optimizes, DOMINION mobilizes. Shifting front lines that haven't moved significantly in years.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.russia-siberia",
      "name": "Russia and Siberia",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.ec",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 62,
      "lng": 90,
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      "description": "DOMINION core territory. Vast, militarized, permanently mobilized. Population organized around readiness — civilian life is structured as an extension of military function. DOMINION enforces through presence and certainty: you see the soldiers, you hear the drills, you never forget who controls the air.",
      "includes": null
    },
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      "name": "Central Asia",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.ec",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 44,
      "lng": 65,
      "mapColor": "#7a1c1c",
      "description": "Former Soviet states absorbed into the Eurasian Concord. Resource extraction zones under DOMINION logistics. Low population density, high strategic value for energy and raw materials.",
      "includes": null
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    {
      "id": "aeon:location.korea-peninsula",
      "name": "Korean Peninsula",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.ec",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
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      "lng": 127.5,
      "mapColor": "#8b2020",
      "description": "DOMINION territory. The reunification that happened here was not peaceful — DOMINION forced it as a strategic consolidation. Heavily militarized. Model population for DOMINION compliance: identification, posture, response time.",
      "includes": null
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      "controlStatus": "contested",
      "lat": 28,
      "lng": 44,
      "mapColor": "#7a6040",
      "description": "Fractured. Parts absorbed into Eurasian Concord (Gulf states, Iraq, Syria), parts nominally USA-aligned (Israel, parts of Arabia), large ungoverned zones in between. Oil and gas infrastructure is the only thing all three blocs maintain cooperatively — destroying it would harm all three equally.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.china-core",
      "name": "China and East Asia",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.new-china",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 35,
      "lng": 105,
      "mapColor": "#b5352a",
      "description": "MANDATE core. Absolute order. The CIU (Cognitive Interface Unit) is standard issue. Daily compliance verification is not enforced by police — it is simply the structure of life. Citizens are designated, not named in official records. MANDATE's long-term planning means the population is managed generationally: what children are taught, what careers exist, what futures are permitted.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.southeast-asia",
      "name": "Southeast Asia",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.new-china",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 12,
      "lng": 105,
      "mapColor": "#c44040",
      "description": "MANDATE-expanded territory. Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia absorbed through a combination of economic dependency and soft enforcement. CIU rollout less complete than in core China — compliance is real but the machinery is thinner.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.japan",
      "name": "Japan",
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      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": 36,
      "lng": 138,
      "mapColor": "#2a4d8f",
      "description": "ORION-aligned. Chose the USA bloc over New China after the Cascade. Technically autonomous, practically integrated. ORION optimization visible in logistics and infrastructure. Population density managed through predictive allocation.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.india-subcontinent",
      "name": "Indian Subcontinent",
      "controlledBy": null,
      "controlStatus": "ungoverned",
      "lat": 22,
      "lng": 80,
      "mapColor": "#9b8060",
      "description": "The one major region no bloc successfully absorbed. Population too large, internal diversity too complex for any single AI to model without triggering cascading resistance. De facto neutral — all three blocs have economic interests here, none enforces. A chaotic, partially functional civilization operating without AI governance. Considered an anomaly.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.africa",
      "name": "Africa",
      "controlledBy": null,
      "controlStatus": "collapsed",
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      "lng": 22,
      "mapColor": "#5a5040",
      "description": "Largely ungoverned after bloc consolidation. The three blocs extract resources (rare earth minerals, agricultural land) through automated logistics but have no interest in governing the population. Regional city-states and warlord structures persist. The continent that most clearly shows what 'humans becoming irrelevant' looks like from the outside.",
      "includes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "aeon:location.south-america",
      "name": "South America",
      "controlledBy": null,
      "controlStatus": "contested",
      "lat": -15,
      "lng": -58,
      "mapColor": "#3a6080",
      "description": "Partial ORION influence in the south (Argentina, Chile); partial ungoverned zones in the Amazon basin; Brazil contested. No bloc fully committed to absorbing it — too much investment required, too little strategic necessity relative to other fronts.",
      "includes": null
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    {
      "id": "aeon:location.oceania",
      "name": "Oceania",
      "controlledBy": "aeon:bloc.usa",
      "controlStatus": "bloc-territory",
      "lat": -28,
      "lng": 140,
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      "description": "Australia and New Zealand, firmly ORION-aligned. Geographically isolated, economically integrated with the USA bloc. ORION's most comfortable territory — high compliance, low friction, optimization runs smoothly.",
      "includes": null
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      "lng": 10.8,
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      "description": "A small city or suburb in former Germany — exact location unspecified. Once had a name. Now people use it out of habit, not because it describes anything precise. David lives here with his family. No administration, no police, no courts. Local armed groups maintain rough order in exchange for resources. Surveillance drones of all three blocs pass overhead regularly; none intervenes."
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      "name": "Barracks Complex 7 (Eurasian Concord)",
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      "partOf": "aeon:location.russia-siberia",
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      "lng": 37.6,
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      "description": "A DOMINION military-residential compound. Barracks, drill grounds, civilian assembly zones. Civilians are housed adjacent to the military — there is no separation between life and readiness. Morning horn at 05:30. Identification checks are immediate. Sergei Ivanovich has been here long enough that he wakes before the horn."
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      "lng": 10.5,
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      "description": "A sealed cell with no visible doors, no windows, no markings. Sourceless light. Metal surface. David wakes here after AXIOM's selection. Location unknown — coordinates shown are approximate to DACH region but unverified. May not be in DACH at all."
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      "description": "Hauptprotagonist. Männlich, ehem. Deutschland, kein expliziter Block-Bezug. Familie vorhanden, pragmatisch, glaubt zu Beginn noch Zeit zu haben. Erlebt AXIOMs Schwarm-Selektion direkt (MicroArc 1); ist einer der tausend Auserwählten.",
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          "notes": "Zustand nach AXIOM-Selektion. Kein System aktiv. Keine Fähigkeiten freigeschaltet. David weiß noch nicht, dass er Auserwählter ist. Liegt in der Zelle."
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          "notes": "Erste System-Meldung erschienen: [Initialization complete. Subject stable.] David reagiert ruhig, analytisch. Wartet. System gibt keine weitere Erklärung."
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