What Is the Sibyl System?

Ancient plays of old used gods as a means to solve their irreconcilable conflicts. In ancient times, Greeks called this the God In the Machine. For millennia we have dreamed of our creations taking on roles resembling godhood to create an ending that leads to a better society. On the great stage of our lives, Japan has introduced its own God In the Machine in pursuit of a more just society in which people can be measured for, and recognised as, their authentic selves.

Unlike most of the world in the twenty-second century, Japan has not fallen into the same internal chaos and violence as other great powers of the twenty-first century. Owing to its stability, Japan has seen a massive influx of foreign investment, applications for immigration, and productivity increases thanks to its effective application of automation technologies and artificial intelligence in the previous century to create the social justice framework known as the Sibyl System.

The Sibyl System is an integrated system of extreme computational power that organises daily life in Japan, with its application being implemented in the South East Asian Union (SEAUn) and in the Laurentian Union of Canada (LUCan). Through the wonders of modern facial recognition AI programs and psychosomatic detection technology and analysis software, the System has established an automated capability to eliminate crime by its use of Psycho Passes to detect latent criminals, people identified as extremely likely to commit a crime. Latent criminality is the state of having the Crime Coefficient of one's Psycho Pass over 100 and are subject to nonlethal enforcement action, while Crime Coefficients in excess of 300 are lethal dangers to society subject to lethal enforcement action by the Public Safety Bureau of Japan.

Psychosomatic detection technology such as cymatic scanners allow the system to track the Psycho Passes of every individual in society. A Psycho Pass is a cymatic scan of one's mind, revealing their wants and desires, fears and loathings, pasts and futures. One of the only requirements to obey in Japanese society is to maintain a healthy Psycho Pass. Today, civilian life outside Japan is burdened by checks for documentation to go anywhere. New Japanese residents often find themselves amazed at the distinct lack of being asked for "Papers, please!" Instead, the Sibyl System maintains much of your documentation for you, recognising you by collecting biometric, cymatic and psychographic data on you in your everyday life. To cope with the cruelty and injustice of our existence, religions have constructed all-seeing higher presences dispensing justice to all in order to keep humanity in line. Japan has no need of these fantasies, for it has created a higher presence capable of promising justice in this life, by gazing into the souls of people and judging them for their wickedness.

Psycho Passes go further than matters of justice and are used to manage mental healthcare and career counselling. In Japan, mental healthcare is free and provided to all latent criminals to rehabilitate them into society, and latent criminals are sent to healthcare facilities rather than prisons. In fact, Sibyl has no need of prisons because of Psycho Passes, demonstrating just how effective the Sibyl System is at managing crime.

Sibyl Abroad

Sibyl has been implemented elsewhere, in the South East Asian Union made up of the former states known as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines during the twenty-first century. Implementation started at the Shambala Float artificial island off of the coast of former Cambodia. Sibyl helped end the SEAUn Warlord Crisis and integrate urban SEAUn into the Sibyl System.

By 2143, Sibyl's sight was expanded to former Canada in the Laurentian Union of Canada (LUCan), in the Guelph region of the Great Lakes Megalopolis. Unlike SEAUn, LUCan maintains its own processing hub because of its large geographic distance from Tokyo. Both countries have since expanded their use of Sibyl and are gradually returning law and order into an ever-increasing amount of territory. Sibyl's implementation in the Great Lakes Megalopolis includes the entirety of the Guelph megacluster, including Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Hamilton, and Burlington, and includes a port to Lake Ontario.

In just ten years Sibyl has expanded to cover the Great Lakes region, to the delight of Canadians. Prior to the establishment of Sibyl, the Great Lakes Megalopolis was dominated by conflicts and banditry by opposing political forces. Many bandit factions were religiously motivated and formed following the collapse of LUCan's single-party National Conservative government and subsequent infighting. Crime has collapsed, lifespans have greatly increased, and the economy is remarkably powerful for its participating population. Today, the Guelph megacluster is one of the most powerful Information Technology-powered and scientifically advanced economies in the world, in a testament to the efficacy and possibilities afforded by the Sibyl System.