Roleplay Philosophy

MERKOPA 54 treats the state, the party, the firm, the union and the newspaper as the primary actors. A character matters because of the office they hold and the paper trail they leave, not because of personal spectacle.

Decisions are expected to produce recorded consequences: a document, a dispatch, a budget line, a resignation. Nothing is retroactively erased simply because it became inconvenient.

Writing should read like 1954: restrained, formal, and specific. Anachronism, meme humour and modern political vocabulary break the setting and are edited out of the archive.