Is "Papers, Please" inspired by real events or just the liberal perception of communist states?
Is "Papers, Please" inspired by real events or just the liberal perception of communist states?
I find it hard to believe that your family could starve to death just from some mistakes but I might be in the "too positively biased against AES" stage of my radicalization journey
The border and migration controls are something socialist states do to protect workers and their economies. The "your family will starve if you fuck up" or "our laws are inhumane and we don't care; if you care you're fired" are absolutely propaganda.
The propaganda is always projection too
Considering the amount of lies west put in their propaganda, it's hard to be "too positively biased" for AES.
Very clearly obviously it’s propaganda based on the western projection that the commies were the same as Nazis and Nazis were famous for the “show your papers” thing.
Ironically the US police have always treated block people the way media represents the Nazis (and communists, inaccurately). Don’t ask Americans about why that’s ok but some old Soviet Union border guard asking for a passport was supposed to be representative of…anything more than what it always is
This is one of my favorite games of all time, so I may be biased. The game portrays Arstotzka as a flawed country in decline yet still better for its people than every other country on the map. Seeing how the game takes place in the 80s, and that there's a revolutionary group who wishes to combat the corrupt and greedy and bring Arstotzka back to its prime, I'd say it tries to represent the declining Soviet Union.
Where is it set?
Arstotzka, a fictional country based off of the GDR by the looks of it.
Lmao wut
Reading these comments is hilarious.
If any of you took two minutes to go to Wikipedia and actually read about the games design you wouldn't need to make all of these assumptions.Propaganda? Lmao It's a little indie video game made by a guy in his spare time. If this is twisting all your panties in such knots I'm really afraid for you if you ever learn about the real world.
Propaganda? Lmao It’s a little indie video game made by a guy in his spare time.
You heard it comrades? Just make little pieces media on your spare time and no one can ever accuse you of making communist propaganda! How convenient!
He crafted the fictional nation of Arstotzka, fashioned as a totalitarian, 1982 Eastern Bloc state, with the player guided to uphold the glory of this country by rigorously checking passports and defeating those that might infiltrate it.
What was it that you wanted to show us from Wikipedia? Actually forgot it. We don't need to know.
Honestly it has gotten to the point where if anyone mentions "glory" or "gloriousness" in context to socialism, socialist leaders or socialist states, I write it off as anticommunist jibber jabber.
No, I don't think Arstotzka is modeled after any particular country.
However, under Stalin, workers were paid for their work based on a piece-rate system, meaning that if they didn't hit the quota, they were paid less.
This, coupled with famines caused by the mismanaged production and distribution of food, like the one in 1933, could certainly lead to a working man not being able to provide for his entire family.
There's no need for reactionary propaganda here.
Ah, didn't realize this was lemmygrad 😅
Just out of curiosity though, which part of my comment do you consider to be propaganda?
Btw, by my understanding a "reactionary" is a person who seeks to restore an earlier political state of society. Wouldn't that make people who want to return to the "good old days" under Stalin the true reactionaries?
No, I don’t think Arstotzka is modeled after any particular country.
Are you sure? On the 29th/30th day, the border wall gets destroyed; which really gives me serious "Fall of the Berlin Wall" vibes.
Also, Arstotzka has "East Grestin" as one of its region names, and another country (Kolechia?) has "West Grestin" as one of its region names. Would be really surprising if neither of these were based off the GDR and West Germany respectively; despite having these details.