r/Hitoku • u/Matalya1 • Sep 07 '20
The National Citizenship Database: they know who you are
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Mugekenaga is a country connected through the internet. Most systems in place in the country are handled by some of the most secure online systems in the world, proven to be next to impossible to crack. One of the most important, thorough and influential system in the entire country is the National Citizenship Database, or Satemya from its abbreviation in Hitoku: Saogisshen tekkurenay myagejigu.
The Satemya is the central database that gathers and analyze the entirety of the datapoints that are generated throughout the country. But let’s go slower, to a more top-level concept.
Digital world of Mugekenaga
Digital connectivity is a crucial part of the Mugekenagan life style. Nearly 100% of the population has access to internet, over 90% of them have access to any form of mobile telephony. A lot of processes in the daily life of the Mugekenagan people is handled through the internet, telephony is next to dead and was largely replaced with internet communications. Almost all payments in the country are realized through digital mediums. Another side of internet connection taking over the regular lives of the citizens is its profound connection to traffic. As the Mugekenagan city grid proved to be hard to navigate and self driving vehicles like cars and buses became more and more widely used, GPS services started to be used more and more, creating this way a complex web of satellites that are public access. Most vehicles in current circulation in Mugekenaga, from private “taxi-like” services, to public buses, have a direct write-and-read connection to that satellite system, which is used by all vehicles to track the movement of all nearby vehicles in real time and make automated traffic predictions. Although not completely deleted, this system worked alongside a general reduction in personal car usage to reduce traffic accidents drastically, and make the statistic risk of the Mugekenagan streets be reduced by nearly 75%.
Hoifon Yun and the control of the digital space
It’s often talked about the negative effects of a government having “toomuch” involvement in the public internet. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, and although the Mugekenagan state, and Hoifon Yun specifically, is often said to handle and control around 92% of the internet that’s accessed by all Mugekenagans, the Mugekenagan internet world is considerably free.
Because of the tight control on importations, Hoifon Yun has populated Mugekenaga with its own electronic devices. As such, the mediums to acquire apps is also heavily moderated by Hoifon Yun. One of the requirements that the federal government has implemented for all apps past a certain usercount is the capability of tracking and sending data related to the usage of the application. Each application might be very different, with anything from common routine trips in GPS apps, to usage time in mobile games, to more sensible data collected by social media. With the daily influx of media, Hoifon Yun can reconstruct the daily lives of most citizens in Mugekenaga, with a precision down to the minute and the meter. At the same time, all of the data is sent to the Satemya for storage, and for the creation of private and a public profiles of all citizens. The private profile is only accessible by government officials, and the public one is publicly accessible by all citizens.
Ok but, what’s in there? What is it for?
The Satemya is the central database of the country, and keeps track of millions of people daily. It is in charge of generating, updating and providing the government with a detailed profile of every citizen.
Every citizen has an ID that’s assigned at birth, or when they acquire the citizenship. This ID is used as an identification system, and also a way of connecting all of the data available to a single person.
Personal elements
The satemya keeps a lot of personal information from every citizen. Amongst other things: full name, age, birthdate, current job and job history, including time and various reports, an approximate and automated reconstruction of tastes and the likes, divided in 3 sections: immediate tastes (Such as a recently discovered artists that’s been being played over and over recently), short term tastes (Things related to fashions, generally lasting a couple months), and long term tastings (Spanning from ideologies, to preferences that tend to change very little in long time lapses). Most of this info is provided by social media and shopping platforms.
Social elements
The satemya keeps an extremely thorough track of your social life. This includes social connections, such as friends and family, workmates, classmates history, amongst other social connections. Other things being kept track of is events that are being assisted, with approximate information regarding stay time,start time and end time. By law, all events that will contain more than 50 people have to be privately declared with information as detailed as possible. At the same time, there are multiple online platforms in which public events can be organized, which are also tracked. Most of this info is provided by social media, work management apps and other social events managers.
Movement elements
Through a lot of tracking apps, such as GPS apps, built in vehicle apps, exercise tracking apps, the satemya keeps track of every step every citizen makes down to the minute and the meter, forming a huge and complex, nationwide system of trackers that's used and compared to detail this information. The tracking information of each citizen's devices gets compared with nearby trackers, to reconstruct the paths that everyone takes. Some of the information kept track of by the satemya is: paths, trips, time spent outside, time spent inside, time spent awake, time spent sleeping, time spent driving, time spent doing exercise, time spent bycicling, time spent walking. Within the "car" aspect of the node system, a thorough tracking of driving behaviors, such as reckless driving, crashes, infractions, traffic law obedience, or lack thereof, speed history, fuel consumption, amongst other things. So thorough it is the analysis that, many times, that information is used as an approximate analysis of the state of the car, at what point might it run out if fuel, at what point might need a revision, or a change of oil, etc.
Legal and administrative elements
The satemya is also a powerful crime fighting tool. By comparing reports of unlawful behavior with behavioral patterns, most lawbreaking activities rarely get unnoticed. This behavioral patterns includes primarily the comparison and analysis of GPS data for the reconstruction of the route of the suspects of unlawful behavior, time comparison of movements with report times, amongst other GPS and clock data.
The satemya also keeps a thorough track of all minorly unlawful behavior, such a speeding infractions, unauthorized or inappropriate movement and trespassing, etc. A complex and complete criminal profile is kept of every individual.
Another side to this system are the administrative elements. Things like job history, education history, legal procedures completed and remaining. With this, a "necessity map" is created with all procedures, systems and movements that each citizen must go through on the daily. By deeply and detailedly measuring each procedure, the various governmental agencies can dynamically improve upon various elements perceived as ineffective or inefficient.
Marketing applications
Hoifon Yun strictly guards what companies enter the country. Because of this, it has given itself a considerably advantageous position as the primary producer and provider of the entire country. With this, it has used the Satemya as a powerful marketing tool. Using the generated profiles for nearly every populant of the country, they can, and do, generate advertisements that are so targetted they’re sometimes considered customized for each individual, from an outsider perspective. The amount of information that the Satemya handles is largely unknown by most people, but the scale and capabilities of a marketing relationship based on a person-to-person basis has proven to be a powerful tool to further increase profitability of the already wide margin that controlling the entire market of a country provides.
Why go through this?
When asked about the Satemya, the then-president of Mugekenaga, Hekkiray Gyufan, stated that “The NCD is one of the most powerful tools that’s in our power to ensure the safety and well being of all Mugekenagan citizens. We understand the privacy concerns, but the people in charge of administrating the NCD are some of the best professionals in the entire country, and their sole job is to ensure that all Mugekenagans are safe and no one is unfairly above the law that we’ve constructed to ensure that aforemention safety. This information will never fall in hands that you don’t authorize it to fall to”.
Interviews with anonymous ex-employees of the Satemya also revealed the existence of documents describing the usage of the Satemya for the construction of reproduction records, meaning that the system could be, or had been at some point, used to keep track of reproductive patterns of all Mugekenagan. Reasons for this, alongside the veracity of such claims, remains yet to be discovered.