You give Elly a call on your smartphone, and explain that you need to know if she is an American citizen for this form.
On the video feed, Elly is just looking at you with pursed lips.
"It's really silly, I know," you say to fill the silence. After a long silence, Elly replies.
"I never intended to deceive you," Elly says. "I actually only found out recently myself. My parents snuck me into the country illegally when I was young. I was apparently born in a Shanghai airport. We went back and forth with an American passport so well-forged that even I thought it was real. It was only when I started doing my own taxes and trying to vote that things started to crop up suggesting that the government didn't think I existed. I tried to get citizenship at that point, but they've always denied it."
She sighs. "My mother was a Chinese spy, apparently. At least the innocuous kind who just kept her eyes and ears open and gave the Party back home an idea of what was happening. I don't think she even thought of herself that way—she just saw it as sending letters back to friends back home, who happened to be Party officials and happened to be very inquisitive. I found out going through her papers after she passed away. She never told me. I didn't think the FBI knew about it either, until now."
"I take it you would prefer I didn't say all of that on this form," you say.
"I would prefer…" Elly looks concerned. "Let me put it this way. People have been disappearing. Not Asian Americans who are citizens, but people's relatives who are just here on green cards. People say that the government is running some kind of machine learning algorithm to decide who to disappear. I think it's dangerous for me to draw attention right now. But…I can't ask you to lie."
You're not sure what to say about this.
Elly says, "I have to go." She hangs up.
1) Call Mark the reporter to find out whether he is a U.S. citizen.
2) List Elly.
3) State that I know no foreign nationals and move on.
4) I call Major Rogers and complain that I shouldn't need to fill out this form.
Year: 2025
30-year-old Isaac Tesla
Humanity: 91%
Gender: male
Fame: 8 (Nationally Famous)
Wealth: 1 (Getting By)
Romance: none
Joyeuse
Autonomy: 15 (Good)
Military: 14 (Stable)
Empathy: 11 (Stable)
Grace: 14 (Stable)
Relationships
Professor Ziegler (Bad): 19%
Elly (Very Good): 70%
Josh (Good): 54%
Mark (Bad): 32%
Juliet (Good): 55%
Tammy (Bad): 17%
President Irons (Bad): 44%
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World Power Balance
China: 57% U.S.: 43%
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