The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia, It's out Options

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My first impression: The book wants to wanted to alternate between "dry CIA Factbook" and "light-hearted Shadowtalk", which is a nice idea for a document supposedly compiled from different sources in Wikipedia style. But the result also alternates to "there is nothing noteworthy in this article" and "where did the fourth wall go?" Besides these "meta" concerns, the information content itself does not seem to be obviously erroneous, but...


Two wit, this is the entire entry on the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a European country of about 12.4 million well-educated and accepting citizens. The last decade has tested the Czechs’ acceptance, after Crash 2.0 brought an influx of immigrants seeking political asylum about fifteen years ago. The parliament mandated all immigrants who wanted to stay had to become citizens by 2075 or get kicked out, and the citizenry mobilized. The numbers in favor of the immigrants remaining were far higher than those in favor of their deportation. In the end, parliament granted a grace period, and those who lobbied to let the immigrants stay mobilized themselves to help get the immigrants’ applications and testing done, adding a little strength to the country’s reputation for acceptance.

A population number and some recent political issue is not a different tone from other entries, it's just nothing.


And then there are the dwarf-Jews...first, the fourth wall gets bulldozed to tell us that dwarfs are an analogy for Jews (because $REASONS) in the least subtle way possible:

You ever wonder why the dwarfs never made themselves a kingdom like the elves did with Tír Tairngire, Tír na nÓg, and the Zulu Nation? Ever wonder why they instantly integrated after the Awakening and are now among the most overlooked and unrecognized races in the Sixth World? There are conspiracy theories aplenty. Some suggest that there is a vast, secret cabal of dwarfs who control all the world’s money and have sunk their hooks into big media and corporate culture. Before the Awakening, people blamed the Jews or other minority groups for that stuff, and it wasn’t true then and isn’t true now.

Then, we are told that there is a secret cabal of dwarfs through the ages -- to their credit, the writers(s) realized that this is slightly unfortunate to write right after identifying dwarfs with the group at the center of every conspiracy theory, but instead of just dropping the subject, the reaction was to smash the ruins of the fourth wall even further so the writer's voice can clarify that this conspiracy is 'far from the “let’s rule the world” illuminati'.

Anyway, a bunch of dwarfs are secretly building a kaer. How does the IC writer know about that? The same way they know about the function of JackBNimble, in other words, they shouldn't.