Coffee Tropolis: "Comfortably Numb"

Episode 1, outcome

Option C voted in. Only the mega-rich are truely free and they control all the choices so what's the point in trying to change things?

Coffeetropolis chairman gazes out over the city next to one of his henchmen

Profits are soaring sir. Excellent. Just one thing though sir? Your one market rival left couldn't be brought. What's the problem. It turned out to be you sir, we'd just forgotten the other name we'd used for tax purposes

Episode 2, Skool Daze

The well-off arive at school. They look expensive and talk with posh voices

The not so well-off file in looking grey and bored. There are lots of children here

The well-off have a class size of 2 and computers to use

The not so well-off are packed into the class. Teacher looks bored and plays a video for them

The well-off have big dreams for life after school. Big desk and a big job

The not so well-off have the same big dreams

The teacher tells them to dream of a more realistic job in a factory

Mix the kids up so the slowest can learn with – and from – the brightest. The rich kids and the brightest kids shouldn’t be given special treatment.

Introduce a better education for all by taking money away from the hospitals.

Not everyone’s interested in learning, so give a lucky 10% a good education and the rest can make do with a production line education route that selects the city’s needs and educates the kids to fit.