{"id":11073,"date":"2017-09-26T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.prod.gmgfarm.net\/?p=11073"},"modified":"2017-09-26T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:31:22","slug":"occupation-whistleblowing-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vpce-0921aaf1c67156043-4t1vg0wq.vpce-svc-0cf8d5d00172470c2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com\/occupation-whistleblowing-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Occupation – Whistleblowing Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

You open your eyes, a desk is before you and soft jazz plays out of a nearby record player. Standing up, there is a buzz at your pager. \u2018Check your post\u2019. A knock at the door and a package slides under it, resting within your reach. Opening the package reveals a 3.5inch floppy disk which you slide into your computer, a distinctive 1980s DOS Shell inspired beast with a particularly British computing sounding name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome to The Occupation, it\u2019s Manchester, it\u2019s 1987, and the country is not happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Set in a fictional version of Britain\u2019s past, fascism is on the rise in the 1980s. After an explosion which leaves 23 dead, The Union Act is proposed which will severely limit civil liberties, especially those belonging to immigrants. As a journalist who\u2019s let into the governmental building where this\u2019ll be enacted, it\u2019s up to you how this will play out. Will you let it go ahead, or will you make changes?<\/span><\/p>\n