ONENALL

[May Wasserman]

The people of Onenall are grouped into small, closely knit nations. Each
nation is bound together by a God, which is formed by the collective
intellect of the nation's citizens. Every person is an individual, but
also a part of their nation's God. The people aren't in constant close
contact with God and each other: rather, they have to go to Communion
nodes, where their minds merge briefly with the collective, to pass on
all that they know and to receive new instructions regarding their role
in society. The average citizen spends an hour or two a day Communing.
The nations run smoothly: every citizen has their place and their duty,
every citizen is balanced between work and leisure, every citizen knows
every other citizen intimately, from their time Communing.

But in the nation of Eva, something has gone wrong with their God.
Citizens are coming away from Communion with bad instructions; the
nation is telling too few people to produce food, and assigning too many
to transportation. Citiznes are being switched from professions they
know well and are needed in, like medicine and pest control, and into
directing traffic or loading trucks or flying planes. Citizens show up
at depots with nothing manufactured and mill in confusion. The
misdirected citizenry can't believe that their god would steer them
wrong, and direct more citizens to the Communion nodes -- which in turn
give them similar useless orders.

Other countries watch in alarm, not sure how to help Eva or what's
happened to her god. Meanwhile, scared and hungry Evish citizens flee to
other nations, hoping to join a healthy Communion ....

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[Terrycloth]

What they don't know is that only the EVA communion upgraded to the
new software that's supposed to unite the nations in a network of
trade and prosperity. All the gods agreed that it was a really good
idea and that they should definately all do it, but most of them went
away from the divine conversation assuming that no decision had
actually been made, and did nothing.

[Rowyn]

Eva's god is, of course, aware that its citizens are troubled, for it
is composed of its citzenry. A small group of technopriests have been
studying the problem, and after communing with their god to present
their findings, they have a solution. Reverting to a prior version is,
of course, out of the question. What they need to do is make sure the
other nations upgrade. Once everyone has upgraded, surely Eva's extra
transportation capacity will be needed to accommodate the increase in
global trade, and all will run smoothly again.

And if the other nations refused to comply with the clear Global Trade
Accord, well ... that's what hackers are for..3