No man means all he says, yet few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious.
- Henry Adams
- AI
- Common term for Artificial General Intelligence; none exist any longer.
- Artist
- A class of people who can modify generic AutoMake outputs into novel designs.
- AutoMake
- Autmatic Makers, nanotech devices that create basic clothing and food at need; businesses have specialized ones.
- 'borg/cyborg
- having cybernetic body parts.
- 'Bot:
- Like a MedDoc, these are basic programs that can analyze simple problems and issues with a pleasing visual interface.
- Calendar
- Global one set as 6 months/year, with 6 day weeks and 60 days in a month. Holidays exist at the ends of each month as needed.
- CenNet
- The Census Network, a government body.
- City-State
- Term for one of the 1000 cities that exist in the world. Each boasts a population of ~10 million.
- Creator
- The people artists steal from. Original designers, often programmers of Makers as well.
- Drone
- Lowest-order of citizens, compromised of ne'er-do-wells and prisoners along with clones. They monitor the global camera system and examine specific citizens 24/7 or situations System flags as suspicion to see if they are actually suspicious.
- Fissure
- 'Cities' that exist under the City-States in the ruins they are built on top of. Population and amounts are largely guesswork.
- Governor
- Any citizen elected for government office in a City-State.
- Hacker
- Terrorists who try to alter System.
- Maintenance
- The people who fix and repair things; work for WorldGov and make sure the world functions.
- Maker
- Slang term for AutoMake.
- 'Mod*
- Any body-modification, from altered skin tone, different eyes or movable tattoos.
- MagLev
- the magnetic train system used for almost all travel in and between City-States.
- -Net/Network
- A government organization.
- Military
- WorldGov army, exists to defend the moon base, mars and earth from possible alien attacks.
- Nano*/nanotech
- machines inside the body. Intelligent ones are highly illegal.
- Police
- Police officers; they often respond to Watcher notes about crimes and investigate problems in person.
- Poli/Politicians
- WorldGov career politicians, often with short actual careers. Social science fits into this along with diplomacy.
- Programmer
- Those who program System; often City-State level workers designed to make System operate at maximum efficiency within their City.
- Scientists
- Catch-all term for the people who design all the tech that keeps the world working.
- Servant
- Civil servants, employees of WorldGov.
- 'Stem/stem
- Short for System, aka the internet
- Stemming
- Prolonged use of the internet via virtual inteface.
- System
- The global computer network.
- Vir-Edu
- Virtual-Education, the education software that teaches everyone how to be human.
- Watcher
- low-ranking job; assigned to watch Drones and decide is incidents Drones have flagged are worthy of police attention.
- Worker
- Slang term for any generic citizen holding a job.
- WorldGov
- The global governing body. Consists of Politicians, Police, Scientists, Military and Maintenance.
* Both these terms see very wide use and consequently tend to be confused and misused.
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