Core Concept (The Elevator Pitch)

Life in the Omninet Society is a game, and the system is the only player that matters. Every citizen, household, and action is tracked, scored, and optimized. Compliance and self-disclosure earn points and privileges. Missteps, delays, or defiance slowly erode convenience, status, and access. The system doesn’t punish, it quietly reshapes life so you play by its rules.

Pillars: What Must Always Be True

The Omninet Exists: A planet-scale, AI-driven surveillance and behavior engine. LifeScore and household performance scores are everywhere.

Convenience as Control: Rewards are seductive. Punishments are invisible friction and lost privileges.

Social Stratification: Tier One (full access), Tier Two (partial friction), Tier Three (exiled or “ghosts”). Your tier affects everything, from coffee to healthcare.

Human Cost as Data: Mistakes, tragedies, and rebellion are “undesired outcomes” or data points, not morality tales.

System Is Apathetic: It is never evil, it is neutral, precise, and relentless. People are measured, not judged.

Sandbox: What You Can Play With

Perspective: From Tier One citizens navigating perfect routines to ghosts surviving outside the system. Architects, hackers, families, street vendors, corporate drones, everyone is fair game.

Tone: Can range from intimate, psychological stories to high-stakes thrillers, urban horror, or satirical commentary on compliance and gamification.

Scale: Single incident, household drama, corporate intrigue, city-wide disruption, or global conspiracy.

Flexibility: You can invent sub-systems, apps, neighborhoods, or rules, but always fit under the Omninet’s core logic.

Examples (What Stories Look Like)

• Thirty Seconds: A small disruption at a café cascades into household warnings and tension, showing how the Omninet enforces compliance invisibly.

• Miscalculation: A security system kills an intruder, and the Omninet’s data justifies it clinically, demonstrating how the system treats human life as data points.

Fresh Story Seeds (Collaborator Hooks)

• The Ghosted Tenant: A household refuses system integration; their utilities and deliveries slowly degrade, forcing creative survival strategies.

• Score Sabotage: A hacker tampers with LifeScores for fun or revenge, friends and family experience inexplicable friction.

• Altruism Dilemma: Helping a low-tier neighbor boosts short-term reputation but triggers long-term risk flags for the household.

• Algorithmic Court: A citizen is accused of a minor infraction and must navigate a purely algorithmic trial.

• Unexpected Glitch: The Omninet misclassifies a neighborhood as “high-risk,” changing traffic, services, and access for everyone.

• Family Calculus: Parents optimize every child’s behavior for points, creating conflict, rebellion, and unintended consequences.

• Insider Insight: An Omninet employee uncovers a hidden system rule and must decide whether to exploit, leak, or ignore it.

• The Quiet Refuser: Someone deliberately underperforms or misreports life actions, feeling the slow squeeze of friction while trying to stay off the grid.

Invitation / Call to Action

This is a universe about human friction in a frictionless world. Build in it, bend it, explore it, but always respect the Omninet’s logic: the system sees everything, the game never stops, and every choice carries invisible consequences.

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