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The bureaucratic misadventures at the start of the article sound like this is a bunch of people playing a LARP version of Papers, Please. Which, come to think of it, should be a thing.

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You'll need a license from Lucas Pope, and a permit from the venue. The permit-issuing authority will want to see your license before granting the permit, and Lucas will need to see your permit before granting the license, but you can get around this by obtaining a provisional temporary interim permit from the protests and demonstrations secretary at the mayor's office. You will need to claim that the LARP is actually a protest against government bureaucracy, which it is, technically, albeit satirical. That permit is only valid for the grassy verge between the sidewalk and the west wall of the city government annex. So you will need to apply for a change of venue on your real permit application, which requires approval from the police chief. Since the best place is the county administration center, you will also need to get approval from the sheriff. Now the sheriff and the police chief don't like each other, and won't agree on anything, so you will need to make the first approval look like a rejection to get the second. I'm sure you can figure it out from there. Good luck. There's nothing else that I can do for you without possibly getting fired.

This was actually a thing. https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/446353072944451584/photo/...

And I'll agree this quote seems pulled right out of Papers, Please

>“No, a letter isn’t good enough anymore. It was fine last week, but the guys on the tenth floor”—the security team’s floor, which is known as the NKVD—“said you have to have a press card.”

Doing that with your real passport sounds like Bad Idea(TM).

About halfway through, I was very nearly convinced that the headline was a misdirection and that this "country in an 11-story building" would be revealed to be an art installation that deconstructs Soviet-era bureaucracy.

Yup. It seemed like they were just having a good time with the journalist.

Isn't there an actual real-life game where someone is sent from person to person to get help, eventually landing back at the first person?

Some snipe hunts are like that. Apparently it's a Navy thing.

I was once asked to acquire 'one yard of gig line'.

http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-gig-line

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