Veridia
A carefully tended society

Veridia

Tree-lined cities, public aesthetic votes and cryptographic proofs. Institutions reach into the smallest details of everyday life.

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Dzego
Another way to coordinate

Dzego

Workshops, anti-transmission foil and independent organizations. A different answer to the same questions of trust and privacy.

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The United Cities
The texture of freedom

The United Cities

Freetown brings contrasting buildings, economic research and a less carefully arranged public world into view.

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Privacy as infrastructure

Zero-knowledge proofs can establish a limited claim without revealing everything about the person making it. Privacy robes, protected rooms and transport systems carry that question beyond the screen and into physical life.

The design of institutions

Public aesthetic voting, taxation and independent organizations make governance visible in the streets and at the dinner table. The novel asks how these arrangements work, where they fail and how people respond.

Games, learning and choices

Minpentai is a rule-based cellular game within the story. Its evolving strategies provide one way to think about learning and cooperation. The game is part of a fictional world; the novel is not a technical specification for real policy.

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