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people became crazed
walking advertisements, ICs connected everyone and everything, and
a few mega corporations called all the shots, you have a different
planet.  People’s loyalties started to change.  First of
all, to the masses, every other person is a competitor.  They
could be the one who grabs that last item on sale before you do.
 That guy might even be a clone, not even a real person.
 You better be ready to trample them in the stampede, and most
people were.
     For many Ads, it was
their main job, that was how they paid their rent.  If someone
is paying your rent, you form a bond with them, even if they are a
mega corporation that really doesn’t care if you live or die.
 These people, ruling their own little Universe in their IC,
became fiercely loyal to the corporations paying them.  More
loyal than to the government.  People start to think, “What
does the government do besides tax me and take my money?”
 Corporations with unlimited wealth start to think that
also.

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    FUCK THOSE PUSSIES IN THE
GOVERNMENT
    There really isn’t anything
scarier than watching your own nightmares.
    Recordable
dreams is another funny way that history repeats itself.  Just
like when audio tapes came out and the record industry thought
everyone was going to just tape songs off the radio and put them
out of business, and just like when mp3s and file sharing got
popular and the big corporations of the day decided to sue 14 year
olds for downloading Deuce Bigalow 10: Horse Gigolo.  The day
when Paris Super Crack Hilton the 4 th’s dreams became instantly
available to the world, of course the new, bigger corporations of
the day had to sue everyone.  Because since Super Crack 4
(That was what Paris Super Crack Hilton the 4 th would want you to call her), was
property of the Elohssa Corporation, you shouldn’t be allowed to
watch her dreams.  Unless, of course, you paid them.
 
    With the proliferation of ICs,
the world becomes one giant, connected market, about 5-10
corporations control every business out there.  People are
living longer and have learned how to clone themselves. Cloning is
so normal in this world that it’s easy to forget about.  As
you can imagine, cloning has a huge impact on the world when it
finally gets cheap and reliable enough.  We’ve all seen that
scene in Alien 4. There’s about 30 years of that stuff before they
really figured out how to get a clone perfect every time.
 
    Anyways, people that live a
long time and can clone themselves tend to, um, live a long time
and create many versions of themselves.  You may not have
thought about it, but once cloning was the norm, many people just
become their own families.  A couple old versions of
themselves, a couple middle aged, some young adults and some kids,
all the exact same person, born in different years living together
as a family.  Needless to say, the world’s population gets out
of control when this happens.  There were over a trillion
people on the planet and only a handful of companies providing
products and services to them.  These companies got rich.
 Trying to describe the money would just sound ridiculous, it
was so much.  As time goes by, corporations come and go, new
products are introduced that spring one ahead of the other,
scandals and innovation knock others down, it’s constantly
evolving, players are coming and going.  At the time, there
are only a couple corporations that need remembering, Telnet, who
perfected cloning before anyone else and Elohssa Corporation, who
invented the IC and created the market for dreams.  These
companies span the globe, you can’t be #1 in the world if you don’t
have a rep in Mongolia.  
    In the quest to span the globe,
you have to deal with the world’s problems.  First, you just
have rent-a-cop security, then you need a rent-a-cop who speaks
Mongolian.  Then there’s rent-a-cops in downtown LA who need
tasers, then they need more than tasers.  That’s when you get
the