Most residents work in factories, one shift out of three (about 8 cycle hours). After a shift, workers collect ration tickets and either eat or return home to use them as currency. Life is marked by oppression and aggression from paranoid Liquidators who abuse their authority.

When alarms sound, everyone runs to their residential cell - a rotting apartment that may be destroyed by Samosbor. You lock your hermetic door - YOUR ONLY SAFEGUARD AGAISNT SAMOSBOR - pass rusted furniture, and try to sleep through the noise. YOU WILL WAKE UP TO A LIQUIDATOR INSPECTION FOLLOWING CLEAN-UP, OR YOU WILL DIE IN YOUR SLEEP.

THE GIGAKHRUSCHEVKA HAS NO PAPER MONEY OR COINS. TRADE USES:

• ration tickets: payment for working a cicle. exchangeable for food in the cantina, and therefore valuable.

• INCENTIVE TICKETS: RARE, GIVEN TO DISTINGUISHED WORKERS OR RESIDENTS. EXCHANGEABLE FOR VALUABLE GOODS AT AUTHORIZED SELLING POINTS.

• QUALITY FOOD OR ALCOHOL

• material goods: Extremely varied. the lack of a singular currency makes bartering with the most varied of items common.

Concentrates are distributed as rations in exchange for ration tickets. These are nearly tasteless, odorless 300-gram bricks, packaged in paper, providing a day’s nutrition. They are hard but cut easily and do not crumble. The only notable flavors are tart, bitter, and salty. This drives people to prepare concentrates in various ways and makes real food highly valuable.

Incentive tickets can be traded for saccharin tablets at Liquidator distribution points—highly sought after, very sweet, and carcinogenic in excess.

Technology mixes modern and futuristic discoveries with Soviet-era infrastructure. Researchers make advances, but they clash with the Soviet way of life.