The North PacificBoard

This is not the face of a sane man, thought the Greatlyian Head Propagandizer as Stev Barr hurriedly ushered her through the doors of the office building that was now almost entirely devoted to researching and developing “computed games”. Indeed, Barr’s skin was pale, his hands were cramped and twitchy, and his face showed clear signs of haggard exhaustion. Still, his eyes were bright and his manner agitated as he spoke about the leaps and bounds that were being made in the development of the com-game.

The Head Propagandizer took it all in with a tired expression as she was led around the office building. Although her workload was traditionally light - just about everyone in Greatly adored pacifism and the country’s peaceful lifestyle, making her job unusually easy - it was a lot more difficult for her to turn the concept on its head and quickly convince the entire nation that having a military would not, in fact, signal the end of the world and eternal torment for all. Although she did not have quite the insane workload that Barr feverishly tore through, she also lacked his crazed passion for his work, so her task resulted in her being far more exhausted than he was.

This was a routine assignment; throughout the past month, many of the government higher-ups had gone through a tour of the building that housed the concept of the rapidly-developing com-games in order to see if they could possibly aid them in their line of work. The government was beginning to seriously consider heavily subsidizing this fascinating new concept - if, of course, it was proven useful.

The Head Propagandizer was led through the offices of many diligent programmers making breakthrough after breakthrough in the field. She barely spared a glance for the entertainment com-game Ping, writing it off as nothing more than a useless distraction. However, when she got to the mostly text-based com-games, she became practically enthralled with them. She realized that these games could theoretically be used to sway public opinion towards Yingguo’s military presence in the country! Just regale the player with descriptions of the troops helping the populace, defending the nation from imaginary foreign invaders, even get the players to put themselves in the troops of the brave, dashing soldiers, and ta-da! Public opinion swayed!

She went through the motions for the rest of the tour, but afterwards quickly established a radio connection to explain her plan. If all went well with her plan, com-games were about to gain the eye of the entire Greatlyian public.