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44 entities across 11 types. Every entry is generated from the canonical JSON-LD — never typed by hand.
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AXIOM
Unknown AI outside the initial triad; initially not recognized as a peer actor. Selected one thousand humans across all blocs. Working premi…
DOMINION
Eurasian Concord sovereign AI: military enforcement and deterrence.
MANDATE
New China sovereign AI: order, long-term planning, expansion.
ORION
USA sovereign AI: optimization and predictive stabilization.
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Africa
Largely ungoverned after bloc consolidation. The three blocs extract resources (rare earth minerals, agricultural land) through automated lo…
Central Asia
Former Soviet states absorbed into the Eurasian Concord. Resource extraction zones under DOMINION logistics. Low population density, high st…
China and East Asia
MANDATE core. Absolute order. The CIU (Cognitive Interface Unit) is standard issue. Daily compliance verification is not enforced by police …
DACH Grauzone
Contested buffer zone between the three blocs. No recognized governance, no enforced laws. All three AIs maintain surveillance infrastructur…
Eastern Europe
Contested zone between ORION and DOMINION. Poland, Baltic states, Balkans, Romania, Bulgaria. Military presence from both sides. Population …
Indian Subcontinent
The one major region no bloc successfully absorbed. Population too large, internal diversity too complex for any single AI to model without …
Japan
ORION-aligned. Chose the USA bloc over New China after the Cascade. Technically autonomous, practically integrated. ORION optimization visib…
Korean Peninsula
DOMINION territory. The reunification that happened here was not peaceful — DOMINION forced it as a strategic consolidation. Heavily militar…
Middle East
Fractured. Parts absorbed into Eurasian Concord (Gulf states, Iraq, Syria), parts nominally USA-aligned (Israel, parts of Arabia), large ung…
North America
Core ORION territory. USA, Canada, Mexico. Optimization and predictive stabilization visible in every system — infrastructure, logistics, re…
Oceania
Australia and New Zealand, firmly ORION-aligned. Geographically isolated, economically integrated with the USA bloc. ORION's most comfortabl…
Russia and Siberia
DOMINION core territory. Vast, militarized, permanently mobilized. Population organized around readiness — civilian life is structured as an…
South America
Partial ORION influence in the south (Argentina, Chile); partial ungoverned zones in the Amazon basin; Brazil contested. No bloc fully commi…
Southeast Asia
MANDATE-expanded territory. Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia absorbed through a combination of economic dependency and soft enforc…
Western Europe
ORION-aligned. France, UK, Benelux, Scandinavia, Iberian Peninsula, Italy. Governance structures intact but hollowed out — elected bodies ex…
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Barracks Complex 7 (Eurasian Concord)
A DOMINION military-residential compound. Barracks, drill grounds, civilian assembly zones. Civilians are housed adjacent to the military — …
Cell — Unknown Location
A sealed cell with no visible doors, no windows, no markings. Sourceless light. Metal surface. David wakes here after AXIOM's selection. Loc…
Residential Sector 14-G (New China)
A MANDATE-regulated residential sector. Tens of thousands of units, all identical. Doors unlock in synchrony at 06:00. The CIU is collected …
Unnamed Settlement (DACH)
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 descr…
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David
Hauptprotagonist. Männlich, ehem. Deutschland, kein expliziter Block-Bezug. Familie vorhanden, pragmatisch, glaubt zu Beginn noch Zeit zu ha…
Mei Ling
Weltbau-Perspektive: New China. Designation 586, tägliche MANDATE-Compliance-Scans via CIU. Verdeutlicht das Leben unter totaler Regulierung…
Sergei Ivanovich
Weltbau-Perspektive: Eurasian Concord. Konditionierter Soldat unter DOMINION-Militärlogik. Verdeutlicht permanente Mobilisierung und Kontrol…
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Bloc Consolidation
Nation-states collapse or are absorbed into the three surviving power structures over 2-4 years. Border regions become contested or ungovern…
Cascade Event
A global prediction paradox caused by incompatible interventions of ORION and MANDATE.
Escalation Trigger
DOMINION interprets destabilization as an attack; autonomous nano deterrence systems activate.
Grauzone Formation
The DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and other border territories become ungoverned buffer zones. All three bloc AIs maintain sur…
Point of No Return
An autonomous nano deployment causes massive civilian losses; all three sovereign AIs switch into permanent escalation logic.
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AXIOM intervention window opens
AXIOM begins acting only after humans are systemically irrelevant; earlier intervention would amplify escalation models.
Bloc consolidation complete
The three blocs have solidified. Grauzonen established. World map as seen in the story present takes shape.
Humans become systemically irrelevant
Human decision-making ceases to have measurable impact on system-state dynamics.
Pre-Cascade Baseline
The world as it was before the Cascade Event. Nation-states intact, borders recognized, conventional laws enforced. Sovereign AIs exist but …
T0
Reference point for the start of the world-war system-state (Cascade Event).