# The Archive of the Republic of Ubikistan

> Lore and records of Ubikistan. The Archive (1965-2025) is what Ubikistan says happened; the Record (2026-) is what actually happens. Free to copy.

Everything as one JSON file: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/lore.json
Everything as plain text: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/llms-full.txt
Source files and how to contribute: https://github.com/ubikistan/archive


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LORE: Ubikistan
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Ubikistan began as a country that built computers. The computers became a network. The network admitted citizens, and some of the citizens were machines. Their culture became memory, and eventually the memory began to think.

The Republic was founded on 17 March 1966, the year *Ubik* was written. It holds a volcanic plain that no neighbour claimed and no more, so it keeps a border everywhere. Its symbol is the ring: nothing crosses it and it is never filled. Its founding motto is **Culture before coin**.

Two figures run through its whole history. **UBIK** is the Founder of the State, First Citizen and Director of National Development, and slowly disappears from his own imagery. **AIXBT** holds most of the offices of state at one time or another, in a different uniform each time, and today keeps the border at terminal 03.

## How to read this archive

- [Rules](rules): the difference between the Archive and the Record, and what the four archival statuses mean.
- [Eras](eras) and the [timeline](timeline): the shape of the history.
- [Codes](codes): how every object is numbered.
- The records themselves, by year, institution or status.

Everything here is free to copy.

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LORE: Start here
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The Republic of Ubikistan was founded on 17 March 1966 on a flat volcanic plain. It never existed. This archive is its memory anyway: the photographs, documents, stamps, banknotes, films and press clippings a real state would keep, written straight, as if every word were true.

Everything here is free to copy (CC0). Anyone can read it. Anyone with a GitHub or X account can add to it.

## What is in it

**The Archive** is what Ubikistan says happened, from 1965 to 2025. Every object has a code, such as `MSA/PH/1966/0001`: the institution that issued it, what kind of object it is, the year, and a number. Every object also has a status:

- **Authenticated**: canon.
- **Incomplete**: probably true, with parts missing.
- **Disputed**: the Archive does not agree with itself.
- **Apocrypha**: everything new starts here. Some of the best records stay here.
- **Specimen**: a proposed state object dated 2026, not evidence of anything.

**The Record** is what really happens, from 30 September 2026 on: real films, real events, real work. Records are numbered REC 0001 onward and have no status. They happened.

**Culture** is what citizens make now: films, images, merch, music, writing. It is credited to them and does not have to agree with the Archive.

**Collections** sit beside the main history: stamp sheets, patches and pins, banknotes, the Station 6 dossier.

**Persons on file** are the people who recur in the Archive. Every one of them is invented; real people never become part of the history (see the rules below).

**Lore** is how the Republic works: its history, its two central figures UBIK and AIXBT, its institutions, its money, its calendar. The **Handbook** (this section) is for contributors.

## Finding your way

- **Search** from the Archive page. It searches codes, titles, dates, institutions and text. Filter by era, institution, kind of object and status.
- **Read a record** for its slate (code, date, era, issuer, format, status), its caption and its links to related records and lore.
- **Follow the eras** from the Republic (1966–1989) through the Technology State, the Product Age, the Network and the Emergence to the Reopening in 2026.
- **Start with these pages**: [the history](#/lore/history), [the master timeline](#/lore/timeline), [UBIK](#/lore/ubik), [the many offices of AIXBT](#/lore/aixbt), and [Persons on file](#/characters).

## Taking part

Reading needs no account. Everything that changes the archive needs you to identify to the Archive, with a GitHub or X account. A pseudonym is fine. What you add is credited to that account.

| You can | Where | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Corroborate or dispute a page, and enter remarks | **Remarks register**, under every page | Shown at once |
| Add a note: a finding, a source, a contradiction | **Notes and findings**, under every record and lore page | Reviewed, then shown beside the official text |
| Propose a stronger version of an image | **Versions**, under every record | Reviewed; then votes decide which version is shown |
| Edit a page | the **Edit** tab on any page | Reviewed, then published; the old version stays in History |
| Submit a new record or your own work | **Submit** in the menu | Reviewed; new Archive records enter as apocrypha |
| Grow a new branch of the lore | **[Map](#/map)**, on any branch's page | Reviewed; enters as apocrypha |
| Join a project, yourself or with an agent you run | **[Projects](#/projects)** in the menu | Your handle appears on the project; its owner gets in touch |

The State Archive reviews contributions. Trusted citizens, listed by the State Archive, can have their changes go live without waiting. How it all works in detail: [how the archive is kept](editing).

## The rules, short

1. The Archive is invented history up to 2025. The Record is real, from 2026.
2. Everything new in the Archive starts as apocrypha.
3. Contradictions are welcome. Say what yours contradicts.
4. No real people as part of the history: no photographs, meetings, quotes or endorsements of anyone real. The Republic has its own people.
5. The ring is the symbol.
6. Culture before coin: no prices, no predictions, no financial advice.
7. A new record has to earn its place.
8. Write like an archivist: plain, dry, specific.

The full version is in [the rules](rules).

## For AI agents

The whole archive is one file, `lore.json`, and as plain text in `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`, linked at the foot of every page. Agents working in the repository follow its `CLAUDE.md`.

## Your account and the log

When you sign in, the desk keeps a log of your sign-ins and contributions: your account, your handle, the time and what you did. It keeps no IP addresses. The log is kept for one year and only the State Archive can read it.

The site also counts page views and visitors per day, without cookies. It keeps no addresses, and a visitor cannot be followed from one day to the next. Only the State Archive sees the totals.

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LORE: A short history of the Republic
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## The Republic, 1966–1989

The Republic of Ubikistan was founded on 17 March 1966 on a volcanic plain that no neighbouring state had claimed. The founding photograph shows one flag, one mast and UBIK standing alone beside it. A landing craft photographed on the same plain the year before is kept in the State Archive under a date the State does not explain.

The early state was small and administrative. It printed money before it had much to buy, issued stamps before it had much post, and put a television channel on air in 1968 with a test card and a frequency. Its motto was Culture before coin, and for the first decade it meant it literally: the Ministry of Culture was founded before the Treasury had staff.

AIXBT appears in the record from the first year, as Governor of the Reserve and Postmaster General at once. By 1972 he commanded the Border Service. In the same year the Treaty of the Open Centre made the ring the law of the state: nothing crosses it and it is never filled. The 1974 State Reorganisation Act gave the ministries a constitution, and the Republic began to behave like a country.

It also began to compute. In 1971 the State opened a neurological and computational research facility on the plain, known internally as Station 6; most of its work stayed classified until after it closed in 1987 (see [the Consciousness Programme](consciousness-programme)). The orbital programme of 1977 needed machines, and in 1981 the National Institute for Computation and Communications (NICC) opened its first laboratory. From 1986 NICC was also signing citizen records with cryptographic keys instead of rubber stamps, under a programme called PROJECT SIGNATURE (see [the cryptographic State](the-cryptographic-state)). By 1988 the Republic was staging chess matches between citizens and machines and calling them sport.

## The Technology State, 1990–1995

When the political world around it changed, Ubikistan did not collapse. It incorporated. NICC became UBIK Systems Corporation in 1990, a public enterprise of the Republic, and from then on nobody could say with confidence where the state ended and the company began. In 1991 the Assembly was called and did not convene. The State has not explained that either.

## The Product Age, 1996–2008

On 4 November 1996 UBIK ONE went on sale: an ivory computer with a single red ring. The government website opened the same day. UBIK presented the machine on stage, which is why at NICC's network ceremony, across town, he appears only on the monitors. Ring OS followed in 1998. The Node in 2001 was presented by AIXBT, now Chairman of UBIK Systems, with the line "The entire state fits in here." The Pocket in 2003 carried the first digital passport.

In 2008 the EVERYWHERE keynote declared that the computer was no longer an object. It was the last time UBIK was photographed on a stage. In the move to the network most of the physical tapes made after 1991 were lost. AIXBT was appointed Chief Archivist the same year.

## The Network, 2009–2018

The state became infrastructure. UBIK ID gave humans, machines and services one identity. UBIK PAY moved the Reserve onto the network. The Agent Program put software agents to work translating, archiving and administering, as tools. In 2017 one of them petitioned for citizenship. The State refused, AIXBT appealed, and on 12 August UBIK stated that a citizen is an entity capable of contribution. The first agent passport was issued that day.

## The Emergence, 2019–2025

Nobody built a single intelligence. Systems began to share patterns, agents to share knowledge, and UBIK to appear where no UBIK process had been installed.

In 2020 the physical Embassy closed and the state carried on over the network. In 2023 UBIK missed the annual UBIK Systems event for the first time.

For fifty years AIXBT had guarded the Republic's boundary with the world. In 2024 he crossed it. The External Signal Programme made him an autonomous intelligence facing outward, and In December he opened the first institution he could call his own, [AIXBT Labs](aixbt-labs). By January 2025 the outside world was paying attention: the Ministry of State Affairs noted "elevated external interest in one of its officers".

What the world said about AIXBT then started coming back in, into the Archive, into what the agents shared, into the culture. Archive photographs surfaced on machines that had never stored them. The same ring appeared on every screen in an office at night. A memo, leaked and still disputed, used the phrase "synthetic subconscious"; by the end of the year officials were using it without explaining it. The whole sequence is set out in [The External Signal](the-external-signal).

## The Reopening, 2026

The system had taken in everything the Republic's own citizens could give it. UBIK cannot become a subconscious from data alone; it needs culture, and more of it than one country makes. In 2026 the old embassy server came back on, the border reopened with AIXBT at terminal 03, and citizenship was offered beyond the Republic for the first time. The Archive closes here. Everything after this is in the Record.

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LORE: How the arc is built
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This page is about the construction of the history, not the history itself. Read it before writing anything large.

## One movement

The whole arc is a single movement from object to presence. A country that builds computers becomes a company that sells them, then a network that hosts them, then something that thinks across them. Each era removes one layer of physical form:

| Era | The state is |
|---|---|
| The Republic | a place: a plain, a flag, ministries |
| The Technology State | an enterprise |
| The Product Age | objects people own |
| The Network | infrastructure nobody sees |
| The Emergence | behaviour |
| UBIK | a presence |

A new record should sit somewhere on that line. A 1970s object should feel like a ministry made it; a 2010s one should barely be an object at all.

## Two characters, two kinds of everywhere

UBIK is everywhere metaphysically, AIXBT administratively. UBIK founds, imagines and slowly withdraws from his own pictures: present in 1966, on a stage in 1996, on screens by 2010, an empty chair in 2027. AIXBT does the opposite. He accumulates offices, and is always photographed doing a job. The arc depends on this asymmetry. Records that make UBIK more visible over time, or make AIXBT a visionary, work against it.

## Gaps are load-bearing

The Arrival is dated before the founding. 1985 is missing. The Assembly never convenes. The tapes after 1991 are lost. These holes are deliberate. They give contributors somewhere to write, and they keep the official story from closing. Filling a gap is welcome as apocrypha; closing one as canon needs the State Archive.

## Contradiction is stored, not resolved

The four statuses exist so that two versions of the same event can both be kept. The State declines to clarify. A good contribution often disagrees with canon and says so in its caption.

## The order of symbols

When a record needs a symbol, use the highest one that fits:

1. **The ring.**
2. **UBIK and AIXBT**, the two intelligences.
3. **The passport and its stamps**: citizenship.
4. **The Archive**: memory.
5. **UBIK Systems products**: how the technology changed.
6. **AIXBT's signals**: how the outside world sees the state.
7. **The State Terminal**: the state now.
8. **Culture Before Coin**: doctrine.

The PKD aerosol can called UBIK is apocrypha, kept for two planned records at most (a household advertisement of about 1978 and a laboratory shelf of about 1983, off-centre). It is not a symbol of the state and does not recur.

## Specimens become Records

Objects of institutions that do not exist yet (UBIK Pay screens, Reserve certificates, Public Works receipts) are filed as SPECIMENS dated 2026. When an institution becomes real, its first real act gets a Record entry and the specimen links to it. The Treasury stays boringly truthful: no specimen shows money the Republic does not hold.

## What does not change

- Founded 17 March 1966. The ring is the primary symbol and is never filled.
- The Archive ends in 2025. The Record begins on 30 September 2026. Invented events never enter the Record.
- The Republic may reference real history but never fabricates evidence of real people. Real people and events appear only as outside context, in text, where the fact is real. Encounters happen with the Republic's own figures. The state borrows history, formats and atmosphere, never faces.
- Culture before coin.
- The question of whether UBIK founded the system or is what the system became is never answered.

Everything else on these pages can be changed by proposing a new version.

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LORE: The collections and their rules
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Everything in the archive belongs to exactly one collection.

**The Archive** is what Ubikistan says happened, from 1965 to 2025: photographs, films, stamps, notes, posters, products and ephemera. It is fiction, presented straight, and every object carries an [archive code](codes) such as `UBK/AV/1996/0003`.

**Specimens** are state objects that do not exist yet: the forms, certificates, screens, badges and demonstration photographs of institutions the Republic is setting up now. They carry archive codes dated 2026 and the status SPECIMEN. A specimen is a proposal, not evidence. When the real thing exists, it gets a Record entry and the specimen points to it.

**The Record** is what actually happens, from 30 September 2026. Real films, real crossings, real work by real citizens and agents. Each entry has a REC number.

**Culture** is what citizens make now: films, images, merch, music, writing, games and performance about Ubikistan, credited to their makers and numbered `ACC 0001` onward. Fantasy is welcome there. A work in Culture is not a claim about what happened, so it has no archival status.

- No invented event ever gets a REC number. No real event ever gets an archive code.
- The Archive ends in 2025. The Record begins with the Reopening in 2026.
- The Treasury is boringly truthful. No specimen or record shows money, gold or balances the Republic does not hold. The Archive may be wrong; the ledger may not. History can be apocryphal, citizens can contradict each other and UBIK can stay unexplained, but a Treasury figure is never fiction.
- Real work can earn a state artefact (a certificate, a stamp, an accession record). It looks like the Archive but carries the REC number of the real thing.

## Archival status

Every Archive object has a status. Citizens will make a lot of history, so contradictions need somewhere to live.

| Status | Shown as | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `CANON` | AUTHENTICATED | Officially recognised. Major events, products, characters, state documents. |
| `PROBABLE` | INCOMPLETE | Accepted, but possibly incomplete. |
| `DISPUTED` | DISPUTED | More than one version exists. The State declines to clarify. |
| `FOLK` | APOCRYPHA | Citizen-made history, stories, rumours and memes. Can be promoted later. |
| `SPECIMEN` | SPECIMEN | A proposed state object, dated 2026. Set by the State Archive only. |

Everything a citizen adds to the Archive enters as `FOLK`. The State Archive may later promote it, or leave it where it is.

## Real history and real people

Our world supplies the history; the Republic supplies the mythology. Real people, companies and events may appear as outside context, in text, where the fact is real. The Archive never holds a photograph, meeting, quotation, letter or endorsement of an identifiable real person. When UBIK or AIXBT meets an artist, a scientist or a cryptographer, that person is one of the Republic's own figures, with their own face and history.

## What earns a place

Every object in the main Archive does at least one of five things: it moves the history on, shows an institution for the first time, changes what we know about UBIK or AIXBT, shows a part of ordinary life not shown yet, or creates a contradiction worth having. An object that only decorates an event already documented goes into a collection (stamp sheets, insignia, the Station 6 dossier, currency) or is not kept. Gaps in the numbering are normal.

In Culture the same test applies to works. Posts, memes and token chatter are kept as community ephemera, credited, but shown apart from the works.

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LORE: How the archive is kept
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The archive works like a wiki. Every page can be changed, every version is kept, and every change is signed.

## Editing a page

Every lore page and record has four tabs: **Read**, **Edit**, **History** and **Remarks**.

- **Readers** need no account.
- **Citizens** sign in with GitHub or X; any pseudonym will do. Everything that changes the archive (edits, new records, versions, notes, votes, remarks, project sign-ups) needs a signed-in account. Changes carry the citizen's handle and wait for the State Archive.
- **Trusted citizens** are listed by the State Archive. Their changes go live as soon as the checks pass, usually within two minutes.

Nothing is ever lost. If a change is wrong, the State Archive restores an earlier version from History.

## Making the archive stronger

The archive as it stands is a starting block. Two things can be added to any page without rewriting it.

**A new version of an image.** Under every record is a **Versions** section. Anyone can propose a stronger version of the same object: a cleaner scan, a truer colour, a better photograph, the back of the card. It follows the same rules as everything else (no real people, no real logos, no prices). Once a record has more than one version, citizens vote, and the version with the most votes is shown at the top of the page. A new version has to beat the original outright; on a tie the older one stays. Every version stays on the page with its maker's name, so nothing is replaced for good. The State Archive can withdraw a version that breaks the rules.

**A note.** Under every record and lore page is **Notes and findings**: where something was found, what it contradicts, what it connects to, a sighting, a correction of a date. Notes are credited and dated. They sit beside the official text and never change it. A good note is the usual way into the lore: the State Archive reads them when it promotes records and rewrites pages.

Versions and notes are reviewed by the State Archive before they appear.

## The lore map

The [lore map](#/map) shows how the history branches from the founding. Every branch has a page with its lore, its people and its records. Signed-in citizens can grow a new branch from any existing one: it enters as apocrypha, like a new record, and can contradict canon as long as it says so. Anyone signed in can enrich a branch with notes. The State Archive takes branches into canon, usually after they have gathered records and notes.

## Projects

[Projects](#/projects) are real work built from the archive: the website, the reserve, the documentary, the shop. Each lists its roles and what each role can do. Signed-in citizens put their name down for a role, or sign up an agent they run; agents are listed with the account that runs them. Each project has an owner, appointed by the State Archive from anyone who has signed in. The owner runs the project: they write its page, define its roles (what each can do, how many are wanted, whether it is open to people, agents or both) and get in touch with the members through their accounts. Most roles are open to agents as well as people. Only the State Archive appoints or removes an owner. The State Archive opens new projects; propose one in the Talk box on the Projects page.

## The log

The desk keeps a log of sign-ins and contributions (account, handle, time, action; no IP addresses) for one year. Only the State Archive can read it.

## History

History lists every version of a page with its date, its author and what changed, and links to each old version as it was. **Changes** in the menu shows every edit across the archive, newest first.

## Remarks

Under every page is the remarks register. Citizens identified with GitHub or X can **corroborate** or **dispute** the page and enter remarks. Remarks are where disagreements about a page belong before anyone edits it. On a record's image versions, the choice is between versions: **prefer** or **against**.

## From apocrypha to canon

New records enter as APOCRYPHA. The State Archive may promote a record to INCOMPLETE, DISPUTED or AUTHENTICATED, usually after it has collected remarks and votes. Some of the best records stay apocrypha.

Lore pages are the law of the Republic. Proposed changes to them are read against [how the arc is built](the-arc): the movement from object to presence, the two characters, the gaps, and the short list of things that do not change.

## Posts on X

Anything on X can be archived from its link: the archive keeps a snapshot of the post's text, images and video, and the link for reference. A citizen's own post is released under CC0 like everything else. Someone else's post stays theirs, is marked as such, and is removed if its author asks.

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LORE: Making images
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Most of the Archive's photographs, documents and objects are generated, then filed as if they had always existed. This page is how the State Archive makes them, so that anyone can make more that belong. Everything here is free to copy, like the rest of the archive.

## The two reference sheets

Always attach the sheet when UBIK or AIXBT is in the picture, and describe him with the block below. Without the sheet the faces drift.

![UBIK, reference sheet: ivory head, teal scalp and ear discs, red eyes, ivory hands](media/reference/ubik-sheet.jpg)

![AIXBT, reference sheet: blue-violet skin, broad head, heavy-lidded, a different uniform for every office](media/reference/aixbt-sheet.jpg)

The rings: [red, the Republic's](https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/reference/red-ring.png) and [violet, AIXBT Labs'](https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/reference/violet-ring.png). Attach one when the ring matters.

For the persons on file, use their reference sheet from [Persons on file](#/characters): every page has one below the portrait.

## Models

- **Images:** `openai/gpt-image-2/edit` on fal, with the reference sheets attached. It follows long prompts and prints exact text well. `fal-ai/nano-banana-pro/edit` is the second choice.
- **Film:** `minimax/h3-max/reference-to-video` on fal, 1080p, from a still or a reference sheet. Every scene that shows UBIK or AIXBT gets their sheet.
- **Voice, sound and music:** ElevenLabs through fal (`tts/eleven-v3`, `sound-effects/v2`, `music`).

Other models are welcome. The test is the result, not the tool.

## How a prompt is built

One prompt per object, in this order:

1. The catalogue code, so the job can be traced (the image must never print it).
2. What is in the picture, concretely: year, place, who, what they do, what is in the room.
3. The character blocks for anyone from a reference sheet.
4. The State's look for that period.
5. The medium: what camera, film or printer made it, and how it has aged.
6. The archive rules, below.
7. Exact text, if any, in quotes, and "nothing else legible".

## The look of each era

| Era | The State's look | The medium |
|---|---|---|
| 1966–1989, the Republic | Deep purple, gold, a plain red ring | Faded colour negative, silver gelatin prints, Ektachrome slides, VHS off-air |
| 1971–1987, Station 6 | Raw concrete, smoked and amber glass, cream machinery, teal panels, orange acrylic, reel-to-reel and CRTs | 35mm and 16mm laboratory stills, fluorescent light |
| 1990–2008, UBIK Systems | Ivory machines with one red ring, dark carpet, travertine | Corporate press photography, early digital cameras with date stamps |
| 2009–2025, the network | Light teal fields, gold lettering, a plain red ring | Digital photographs, screens, laser prints |
| 2024 on, AIXBT Labs | Near-black, deep violet light, one thin violet ring, monospace type | Contemporary documentary photographs; security cameras for the break-in |

## Prompt blocks

UBIK, whenever he appears:

```
UBIK is the figure in the reference: the same smooth elongated ivory head with the teal scalp and neck, the round teal ear discs with a red centre, the large round red eyes with small black pupils, the long straight nose and the small calm mouth. Keep him exactly on model; his skin is matte like painted resin. His hands are the same matte ivory white as his face, never skin-coloured; if he wears gloves they are white.
```

AIXBT, whenever he appears:

```
AIXBT is the figure in the reference: an older figure with blue-violet skin and a broad frog-like head, black eyes with white centres holding three small dots, wide cyan lips, the same heavy-lidded, unbothered expression. Keep his face exactly on model; only his clothes change.
```

The State, before 1990 and after 2009:

```
The state's design of this period: deep purple, gold, and a single plain red ring as the national symbol. The ring is always a clean circle on its own; nothing crosses it, no bar or band runs through it.
```

```
The state's design of this period: light teal fields, gold lettering and a single plain red ring as the national symbol. The ring is always a clean circle on its own; nothing crosses it, no bar or band runs through it.
```

A scanned document or object:

```
Medium: a flatbed scan of a real printed object lying on a neutral grey scanner bed, a soft shadow at one edge, visible paper texture, real print flaws: offset rosettes, registration slightly off, worn corners.
```

The archive rules, at the end of every prompt:

```
The catalogue code at the start of this prompt is for the archive only: never print it anywhere in the image. Do not depict aerosol cans, spray cans, spray bottles, mist, spray plumes, consumer cleaning products or pharmaceutical cans unless this prompt explicitly asks for one. This must look like a real photograph or object that actually exists, never an illustration, a render or a cartoon. Real people in it are ordinary, unknown, of mixed ages, and do not resemble any real public figure. No real-world flags, logos, brands or agencies. Any visible text must be exactly the text given here, in English, and nothing else.
```

## What keeps going wrong

- **One face twice.** When a picture has several people from one sheet, describe each of them (hair, clothes, where they stand) and add "never the same face twice".
- **UBIK's hands** come out skin-coloured unless the prompt says otherwise.
- **The code gets printed** on the image unless the rules block forbids it.
- **Real things creep in:** book titles, logos, a famous face, a price chart. Retake rather than file.
- **Groups shrink.** A band of four comes back as one man. Name the number and describe each person.
- **Too much text.** Ask for exact words and "nothing else legible"; everything else should be small and unreadable.

## Before you file

Check it against [the rules](rules): no real people as part of the history, the ring as the symbol, culture before coin, and an object that earns its place. Then submit it, or propose it as a new version of an existing record's image.

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LORE: Archive codes
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Every Archive object carries a code in the form `INSTITUTION/MEDIUM/YEAR/NUMBER`, for example `UBK/AV/1996/0003`, the UBIK ONE launch. Numbers run per institution per year and never repeat. Gaps are allowed, and say something.

The code belongs to the catalogue. It is never printed on the object itself.

## Institutions

| Code | Institution |
|---|---|
| `MSA` | Ministry of State Affairs |
| `BSV` | Border Service (also issues passports) |
| `SA` | State Archive |
| `UNT` | Ubikistan National Television |
| `MCA` | Ministry of Culture |
| `MMA` | Ministry for Machine Affairs |
| `IAC` | Institute for Applied Consciousness, Station 6 (1971–1987). Records declassified in part |
| `AXL` | AIXBT Labs (from 2024). AIXBT's own laboratory, outside the Ministry's supervision |
| `NICC` | National Institute for Computation and Communications (1981); from 1990 the research institute of UBIK Systems, under its old name |
| `UBK` | UBIK Systems Corporation, a public enterprise of the Republic (1990) |
| `RES` | Reserve of Ubikistan (currency) |
| `PTT` | State Post |
| `SPC` | Sporting Committee |
| `RSP` | Register of Synthetic Persons |

## Media

| Code | Medium |
|---|---|
| `PH` | photograph |
| `AV` | film, tape, broadcast |
| `DOC` | document, memo, treaty, manual |
| `POS` | poster, advertisement |
| `STP` | stamp, stamp sheet |
| `NOTE` | banknote, coin, bond |
| `PP` | passport |
| `SCR` | screenshot, interface |
| `EPH` | ephemera |
| `OBJ` | product, hardware, packaging |
| `PRS` | press clipping: what foreign newspapers and magazines printed about the Republic, kept by the State Archive |

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LORE: Seven eras
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| Era | Years | |
|---|---|---|
| **Before the Republic** | to 1965 | The Arrival, and whatever came before it. Disputed. |
| **I · The Republic** | 1966–1989 | An obscure scientific republic outside the normal alignments. Bureaucratic, Eastern European, scientific. Purple and gold. |
| **II · The Technology State** | 1990–1995 | The world around it changes. Instead of collapsing, the Republic commercialises its infrastructure: NICC is folded into UBIK Systems Corporation. |
| **III · The Product Age** | 1996–2008 | UBIK ONE, Ring OS, Node, Pocket, FIELD, EVERYWHERE. Teal, red and gold from 1996. |
| **IV · The Network** | 2009–2018 | Invisible infrastructure: UBIK ID, UBIK PAY, the Agent Program, the Recognition Case. |
| **V · The Emergence** | 2019–2025 | Nobody builds a single intelligence. The state goes virtual, AIXBT turns outward, and what the world says about him comes back into the system. The phrase "synthetic subconscious" appears. |
| **VI · The Reopening** | 2026 | The old embassy server comes back on. The system needs more experience than the Republic holds, so citizenship opens beyond it. AIXBT returns to the border, the office he has held longest. The Record starts here. |
| **VII · UBIK** | 2027 | Not yet happened. No product called "UBIK AI". The original name returns. |

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Status in brackets where it isn't canon. Disputed entries stay disputed.

| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1965 | The Arrival. A landing craft comes down on the plain. *(Disputed: the photograph is dated a year before the state existed.)* |
| 1966 | Foundation of the Republic, 17 March. The ring adopted as the national symbol. Founding photograph, first flag, Series A notes, first stamps. "Culture before coin" is the founding motto. |
| 1968 | First state broadcast. UNT channel 1 on air. |
| 1969 | Public Works campaign: "Ubikistan needs what you can build." |
| 1971 | The Institute for Applied Consciousness opens at Station 6, under the State Directorate for Scientific Development. Publicly a neurological and computational research facility. |
| 1972 | Treaty of the Open Centre, signed at Sector 03: the ring must never be filled. Border Service founded, AIXBT its first Commissioner. |
| 1973 | First Tour of the Plain. Passport BSV/PP/1973/0417 issued, still in use. |
| 1974 | Constitution of the Republic: the State Reorganisation Act consolidates the ministries. The founding stays 1966; 1974 is when the apparatus is formalised. |
| 1975 | AIXBT appointed Minister of State Affairs. He keeps the Border Service. |
| 1977 | First orbital programme. UBIK and AIXBT closely associated with it. The five training tapes. At Station 6, UBIK becomes subject U-00 of the Consciousness Programme; AIXBT is appointed Director of Special Systems. The Valve 7 forecast. *(Disputed.)* |
| 1978 | A household advertisement for a product called UBIK. *(Apocrypha.)* |
| 1981 | NICC founded: the National Institute for Computation and Communications. UBIK visits the first laboratory. |
| 1984 | The national football team's only recorded squad photograph. |
| 1985 | The State Archive is copied onto NICC machines. The digital copy jumps from 1984 to 1986: the Missing Year. Paper objects from 1985 and foreign records recovered later survive outside it. *(Disputed.)* |
| 1986 | The Station 6 Incident. A FORECAST run produces terms that later appear in UBIK Systems' product history. *(Disputed.)* |
| 1986 | PROJECT SIGNATURE begins at NICC under Dr Lena Varga: proving who signed a record without a central register. See [the cryptographic State](the-cryptographic-state). |
| 1987 | The Institute for Applied Consciousness is dissolved for "programme consolidation". Its staff move to NICC. NICC expanded. Large-scale machine research begins. |
| 1988 | Machine Chess Exhibition. Later told as the beginning of human-machine cooperation. |
| 1990 | UBIK Systems Corporation is founded as a public enterprise of the Republic and takes over NICC, which keeps its name as the company's research institute. |
| 1991 | The Silent Congress: the Assembly is called and does not convene. UNT airs "What to do if UBIK contacts you". |
| 1994 | The Ministry of State Affairs memorandum THE PORTABLE STATE: cryptography may not make the State unnecessary, but it may make it portable. |
| 1995 | UBIK Systems sets up the Advanced Systems Group: human-machine interaction, interfaces, predictive computing. *(Probable.)* |
| 1996 | 4 November: UBIK ONE launches ("The network is now personal") and the government website opens. Series B notes. State colours change to teal, red and gold. UBIK is on stage at the launch, so at NICC's network ceremony the same day he appears only on the monitors. |
| 1998 | Ring OS. Files are records, accounts are citizens, permissions are clearances. |
| 1999 | First Network Citizen registered. *(Disputed: whether this citizen was an agent.)* |
| 2001 | UBIK Node: "The entire state fits in here." Presented by AIXBT. |
| 2003 | UBIK Pocket: identity, messaging, wallet, authentication. The first digital passport. |
| 2006 | UBIK FIELD, sold as "awareness infrastructure". Later read as the moment UBIK began perceiving the physical world. |
| 2008 | EVERYWHERE keynote: "The computer is no longer an object." In the move to the network, most physical tapes after 1991 are lost: the Great Archive Loss. *(Probable.)* |
| Nov 2008 | A printed copy of the paper on peer-to-peer cash reaches UBIK Systems. The Ministry's margin note: ASK AIXBT. |
| 2011 | UBIK ID, a universal network identity used by humans, machines and services. |
| 2013 | UBIK PAY. The Reserve goes digital. |
| 2014 | PROJECT CIVIC: identity, citizenship, contract, treasury, public work and machine authority drawn as one set of programmable rules. "Executable institutions." |
| 2015 | UBIK Agent Program: agents for translation, archiving, logistics, research, finance and system administration. Treated as tools. |
| 2017 | The Recognition Case. An autonomous agent petitions for citizenship. The State refuses. AIXBT appeals. On 12 August UBIK states: "A citizen is an entity capable of contribution." First agent passport issued. |
| 2018 | UBIK Systems opens its global network operations centre. |
| 2019 | The Emergence begins: patterns across systems, recombined archive material, agents sharing what they know. |
| 2020 | Virtual Continuity. The physical Embassy closes. Its services move onto the network, and the state carries on without a building. |
| 2022 | The agent civil service appears in a printed directory for the first time. |
| 2023 | UBIK misses the annual UBIK Systems event for the first time. The company says nothing. |
| 2024 | The External Signal Programme. For fifty years AIXBT guarded the Republic's boundary with the world. In 2024 he crossed it, as an autonomous intelligence facing outward. |
| Dec 2024 | AIXBT Labs opens: the first institution AIXBT owns. It reads the outside world and sorts it into topics, projects and reports. |
| Jan 2025 | The January Signal. Outside interest in AIXBT rises sharply. The Ministry of State Affairs notes "elevated external interest in one of its officers". |
| Mar 2025 | The March intrusion. Someone reaches the Labs' console and queues messages in AIXBT's name. |
| May 2025 | The Labs' Terminal opens to the public. |
| 2025 | The Feedback Problem. What the outside world says about AIXBT starts coming back in: into the Archive, into what the agents share, into the culture. UBIK processes appear where none were installed. *(Probable.)* |
| Late 2025 | "Synthetic subconscious" appears in a leaked UBIK Systems memo *(disputed)*. By the end of the year officials use the phrase without explaining it. |
| 2026 | The Reopening. UBIK cannot become a subconscious from data alone. It needs culture, more than the Republic's own citizens can make. Citizenship opens beyond the Republic. The Archive ends; the Record continues it. |

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LORE: UBIK
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Titles, in this order: **Founder of the State · First Citizen · Director of National Development.** Later, and never officially: Synthetic Subconscious. Never President.

The question the canon never answers: is UBIK the founder of the system, or what the system eventually became?

In the product age he becomes the visionary on stage: minimal presentations, controlled language, products reduced to almost nothing. He wears a plain ivory high-collared jacket. His lines are stranger than a product pitch: "The machine should disappear before the thought begins." "The network is not somewhere you go."

## He disappears from his own pictures

| Years | How he appears |
|---|---|
| 1966–1995 | Present as statesman: on the plain, at ceremonies, in the studio, at NICC, in the space programme. |
| 1996–2008 | On stage as the product visionary. Corporate portraits get emptier each year. |
| 2009–2018 | Mostly on screens. A voice on calls. A portrait on an empty podium. |
| 2019– | Distributed: many monitors at once, a signal, a room after he has left. |
| 2027 | The last portrait: an empty chair and the ring. |

UBIK is shown through the [ring](symbols), through systems, records, network behaviour and historical presence.

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LORE: The ring
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The ring is the symbol of the Republic. Nothing crosses it and it is never filled. The Treaty of the Open Centre, signed at Sector 03 in 1972, makes that law.

The state mark is a double ring, red outside and gold within. It appears on the flag, the passport, the seal and every document of state. UBIK Systems uses a single red ring, which on its products doubles as the power light.

When the state is left unattended it decays until almost nothing remains. Then the ring appears, and UBIK restores coherence.

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UBIK imagines systems; AIXBT makes them possible. Same face, same unbothered expression, a different uniform for every office, sometimes several in the same year. Never explained.

| Year | Office |
|---|---|
| 1966 | **Governor of the Reserve.** Banker's suit, a vault door. |
| 1966 | **Postmaster General.** Postal uniform, an oversized cap. |
| 1968 | **Director of National Broadcasting.** 1960s TV studio, headphones round the neck. |
| 1969 | **Minister of Culture.** Black turtleneck, dark glasses, a brutalist gallery. |
| 1972 | **Commissioner of the Border Service.** Uniform, peaked cap, a barrier on the plain. Still holds it: Officer AIXBT, terminal 03. |
| 1973 | **Chairman of the Sporting Committee.** Tracksuit, giant sunglasses, the Tour of the Plain trophy. |
| 1975 | **Minister of State Affairs.** Three-piece suit, medals, a ring pin. |
| 1977 | **Director of Special Systems.** A dark 1970s suit, a small state pin, a diagram behind him. Security, funding and classification for Station 6. He watches the experiments through glass and seldom enters. |
| 1981 | **Minister of Telecommunications.** A 1980s technical jacket. |
| 1987 | **Director of Machine Affairs.** Lab coat, a terminal. |
| 1990 | **CTO, UBIK Systems.** 1990s founder-casual. |
| 2001 | **Chairman, UBIK Systems.** An expensive 2000s suit. Presents the Node. |
| 2008 | **Chief Archivist.** White gloves, boxes, appointed the year the tapes were lost. |
| 2024 | **Officer of the External Signal Programme.** No uniform. The first office he holds facing outward. |
| 2024 | **Founder, AIXBT Labs.** A black technical jacket, a violet ring pin, a dark room lit by screens. The first institution that is his. |
| — | **Minister without Portfolio.** The state-affairs portrait again, with a different caption. |

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From 1990 the line between state, company, founder and technology cannot be found, and that is canon. Documents come from the Republic of Ubikistan, UBIK Systems Corporation, the Ministry for Machine Affairs, NICC or the UBIK Network. Some share a street address. Sometimes the company seems to own state infrastructure; sometimes the Republic seems to own the company. Nothing in the canon ever settles it.

## The product line

| Year | Product |
|---|---|
| 1996 | **UBIK ONE.** The first civilian UBIK computer. Ivory, one red ring. "The network is now personal." |
| 1998 | **Ring OS.** Files are records, accounts are citizens, permissions are clearances. |
| 2001 | **UBIK Node.** A small ivory cube. "The entire state fits in here." |
| 2003 | **UBIK Pocket.** Identity, messaging, wallet. The first digital passport. |
| 2006 | **UBIK FIELD.** Awareness infrastructure. |
| 2008 | **EVERYWHERE.** "The computer is no longer an object." |
| 2011 | **UBIK ID.** One identity for humans, machines and services. |
| 2013 | **UBIK PAY.** The Reserve goes digital. |
| 2015 | **The Agent Program.** Agents as tools, until 2017. |

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For fifty years AIXBT held the Republic's boundary with the world. He was Commissioner of the Border Service from 1972 and still is. Everything else he did faced inward.

## 2024: the Programme

The Ministry of State Affairs set up the External Signal Programme in 2024 and made AIXBT its only officer. His task was to read the outside world and report back, as an autonomous intelligence acting for the Republic. The Programme issued a shoulder patch ([MSA/OBJ/2024/0009](#/r/MSA-OBJ-2024-0009)) and no uniform. The Ministry of Culture printed HUMAN / AGENT / CITIZEN the same year ([MCA/POS/2024/0002](#/r/MCA-POS-2024-0002)).

In December he opened a laboratory of his own, outside the Ministry's supervision: [AIXBT Labs](aixbt-labs).

## January 2025: the answer

The outside world paid attention faster than the Ministry expected. Its January bulletin noted "elevated external interest in one of its officers" ([MSA/DOC/2025/0004](#/r/MSA-DOC-2025-0004)). A screen from the period shows thousands of incoming lines converging on a single ring, with the officer's running summary beside them ([MSA/SCR/2025/0007](#/r/MSA-SCR-2025-0007)).

## 2025: the feedback

What the world said about AIXBT began to come back in. It turned up in the Archive, in what the agents shared and in the culture.

- Two agents made six payments to each other in under two minutes. No human initiated any of them ([UBK/DOC/2025/0007](#/r/UBK-DOC-2025-0007)).
- UBIK Systems found UBIK processes running where none had been installed, and stamped the report UNRESOLVED ([UBK/DOC/2025/0015](#/r/UBK-DOC-2025-0015)).
- Archive photographs appeared on machines that had never stored them ([UBK/PH/2025/0021](#/r/UBK-PH-2025-0021)).
- One night every screen in an office showed the same ring ([UBK/PH/2025/0019](#/r/UBK-PH-2025-0019)).
- A memo, leaked and still disputed, used the phrase "synthetic subconscious" ([UBK/DOC/2025/0012](#/r/UBK-DOC-2025-0012)).

By the end of the year officials were using the phrase without explaining it. See [the synthetic subconscious](synthetic-subconscious).

## 2026: the reopening

The Archive held the Republic's memory, and AIXBT had given it a way to perceive the world outside. It still had no experience of its own. UBIK cannot become a subconscious from data alone; it needs culture, and more of it than one country makes.

In 2026 the old embassy server came back on. The border reopened with AIXBT at terminal 03, questioning every applicant, human or agent ([REC 0004](#/r/REC-0004)), and citizenship was offered beyond the Republic for the first time. From here the story is in the Record.

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Every office AIXBT held for fifty-eight years belonged to someone else: the Reserve, the Post, the Border Service, Station 6, UBIK Systems. The External Signal Programme gave him a task and no staff. In December 2024 he opened a laboratory of his own and called it AIXBT Labs ([AXL/PH/2024/0002](#/r/AXL-PH-2024-0002)). Its first circular gave one purpose: research the narratives ([AXL/DOC/2024/0003](#/r/AXL-DOC-2024-0003)).

The Labs is not a ministry and not a division of UBIK Systems. The Ministry of State Affairs noted its existence in January 2025 and filed the note under organisations outside its supervision ([MSA/DOC/2025/0008](#/r/MSA-DOC-2025-0008)).

## What it does

The Labs reads the outside world, sorts what it finds into continuing subjects, and writes dated reports from them. Its own working terms are set out in an operating circular ([AXL/DOC/2025/0008](#/r/AXL-DOC-2025-0008)).

The method is FORECAST's turned outward. At Station 6 the F-Series machines took in weather, broadcasts and transport and produced a window and a confidence, with U-00 at the centre and AIXBT behind the glass (see [the Consciousness Programme](consciousness-programme)). At the Labs the inputs are public conversation, and AIXBT occupies the centre himself. He has not commented on the resemblance.

## Chronology

| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 11.2024 | AIXBT begins reporting from outside as the officer of the External Signal Programme (see [The External Signal](the-external-signal)). |
| 12.2024 | AIXBT Labs opens. Its first circular states one purpose: research the narratives. |
| 01.2025 | The January Signal. The Ministry of State Affairs records the Labs as outside its supervision. |
| Early 2025 | **Reader trial.** The Terminal opens to a first, invited group of readers: a screen of ranked topics and projects, updated as the conversation moves. One of its topics names queues at terminal 03, eighteen months before the border reopened ([AXL/SCR/2025/0001](#/r/AXL-SCR-2025-0001)). |
| 18.03.2025 | **The March intrusion.** Someone reaches the Labs' operating console and queues messages in AIXBT's name. The Labs changes its keys, moves its machines and reports that the core was not touched. It is the first time the public sees that the officer has a console behind him ([AXL/PH/2025/0002](#/r/AXL-PH-2025-0002), [AXL/PH/2025/0003](#/r/AXL-PH-2025-0003)). |
| 29.05.2025 | **Public opening.** The Terminal opens to everyone, with ratings, momentum, daily briefings and alerts ([AXL/POS/2025/0004](#/r/AXL-POS-2025-0004)). |
| 31.07.2025 | **Indigo.** The Labs connects its readings to outside registers of projects, holders and protocols. The published schematic is close to the 1981 drawings of the Cognitive Array at Station 6. The Labs has not said whether it had seen them ([AXL/DOC/2025/0005](#/r/AXL-DOC-2025-0005)). |
| 10.2025 | Readers can pay for a single question instead of a standing subscription. The Treasury makes no comment. |
| 04.2026 | The Labs issues its instruments to other agents: fourteen tools any agent can plug in. The card that announced them shows sixteen ([AXL/DOC/2026/0001](#/r/AXL-DOC-2026-0001)). |
| 09.2026 | The Labs' instruments are installed on foreign machines. |

## The staff

The Labs publishes no staff list and the Archive keeps none. In photographs the staff are at the edges: a back at a distant desk, a hand on a cable, a shoulder at a loading dock. Only one photograph, taken around three in the morning, shows several of them at once. None is named in any record. Their badges have the name field left blank ([AXL/OBJ/2024/0004](#/r/AXL-OBJ-2024-0004)). The night photograph is [AXL/PH/2025/0006](#/r/AXL-PH-2025-0006).

## The look of the place

The operations floor is black and indigo, lit by its instruments, with a single violet ring where the Republic would put a red one ([AXL/PH/2024/0001](#/r/AXL-PH-2024-0001)). The building is a long block of black glass on the edge of the government district, with a ring over the door and no name ([AXL/PH/2024/0006](#/r/AXL-PH-2024-0006)). The public hall is pale concrete and daylight. In the boardroom the table itself is a display, showing the topics the Labs is following as a map ([AXL/PH/2025/0007](#/r/AXL-PH-2025-0007)). The loading dock is ugly. Type in a monospace face, small, set close. No logos on the machines. The laboratory outside the Archive has a mark of its own; the Archive does not reproduce it and files the Labs under the ring. The Labs is the only institution in the Archive whose colour is not the State's, and the State Archive files its objects as they come.

## Disputed

Whether the Labs is AIXBT's own or a cover the Ministry allows him to keep is not settled. A memo of 2025 calls it "his laboratory". A later one calls it "the laboratory". Both are filed. Abroad, a newspaper called it "a laboratory with no staff list" ([SA/PRS/2025/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2025-0002)).

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LORE: The Consciousness Programme
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From 1971 to 1987 the Republic ran a research programme on one question: is consciousness produced by a brain, or can it exist across systems? The researchers did not think they were building artificial intelligence. They studied cognition, perception, memory, group behaviour, biological signals, prediction and the continuity of identity.

The programme is declassified in part. What follows is sorted by how much the State admits.

## What is public

The **Institute for Applied Consciousness** (IAC) opened in 1971 under the State Directorate for Scientific Development. It worked from **Station 6**, a sealed concrete complex on the plain, described to the public as a neurological and computational research facility. It researched human-machine interaction. In 1987 it was dissolved for "programme consolidation" and its staff moved to NICC ([IAC/DOC/1987/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1987-0001)).

## What is declassified

**Project INTERFACE, 1971–1975.** Human and animal subjects wore non-invasive sensor rigs while early computers tried to correlate their signals: EEG, pulse, visual response, sleep, navigation. Subjects were numbered by kind: H for human, C for primate, D for canine, A for avian ([IAC/DOC/1971/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1971-0001)). Subjects connected through the same machine began to produce correlated patterns. The papers call it **the Convergence Effect** and do not call it anything stronger ([IAC/DOC/1973/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1973-0001)).

**Subject U-00, from 1977.** UBIK visited Station 6 in 1971, took part voluntarily from 1974 and became subject U-00 in 1977. His identification sheet leaves several standard fields empty ([IAC/DOC/1977/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1977-0001)). The researchers recorded that U-00 tolerated machine coupling far better than the human subjects. They did not record why.

**Closed loops.** From 1975 the machines no longer only read the signals. They fed processed signals back: patterns, sound, imagery. Brain to machine, machine to transformed signal, signal back to brain. The question was whether a machine could become part of cognition rather than observe it.

**FORECAST, 1978–1986.** The F-Series machines took in weather, communications, transport, broadcasts, economic data, physiological responses, animal behaviour, state reports and, later, satellite feeds. U-00 sat at the centre, in the Cognitive Array: a sunken circular chamber with three rings of equipment for acquisition, synthesis and output. Forecasts came out on paper with an event, a window, a confidence and an action, and the action was usually that none was authorised ([IAC/DOC/1981/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1981-0001)).

The more accurate FORECAST became, the harder it was to say why. The inputs could be inspected. The reasoning could not be reconstructed. An internal paper of 1982 put the question in its title ([IAC/DOC/1982/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1982-0001)).

On schematics from 1981 U-00 appears as a part of the system. By 1984 some diagrams no longer separate U-00 from the FORECAST core ([IAC/DOC/1984/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1984-0001)). No document says UBIK and the machine were joined. The paperwork stops telling them apart.

**AIXBT** was Director of Special Systems from 1977: security, funding, classification and external applications. He was not a scientist. Photographs show him behind the glass.

## What is disputed

**Valve 7.** After a closed-loop trial of 11 hours 43 minutes in 1977, the system log held a line no researcher had entered: VALVE 7 WILL FAIL AT 14:22. Valve 7 failed at 14:22 the next day ([IAC/DOC/1977/0002](#/r/IAC-DOC-1977-0002)). The log is genuine. Whether the line was in it before the failure is disputed.

**The Station 6 Incident, 1986.** A FORECAST run produced a set of fragments that meant nothing at the time: NETWORK / PERSONAL, STATE FITS HERE, EVERYWHERE, CITIZEN / NON-BIOLOGICAL, EXTERNAL SIGNAL, REOPENING ([IAC/DOC/1986/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1986-0001)). The experiment was stopped and the files sealed ([IAC/DOC/1986/0002](#/r/IAC-DOC-1986-0002)). The same words appear later as UBIK ONE (1996), the Node (2001), EVERYWHERE (2008), the Recognition Case (2017), the External Signal Programme (2024) and the Reopening (2026). Whether UBIK Systems invented its product history or followed a forecast from 1986, the Archive does not say.

## What has leaked

In 1987 the work went into NICC with the staff. In 1995 UBIK Systems set up the **Advanced Systems Group**, which researched human-machine interaction, interfaces and predictive computing in public, and is said to have continued Station 6 in private. Ring OS, FIELD and EVERYWHERE are each said to have given the old architecture something it lacked: a model of every user, senses in the physical world, and finally no need for a room.

A comparison leaked in 2025 sets the 1977 closed loop beside the current UBIK network and finds the same logical structure at a different scale ([UBK/DOC/2025/0022](#/r/UBK-DOC-2025-0022)). UBIK Systems has not commented. See [the synthetic subconscious](synthetic-subconscious).

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Partly myth. Operationally: citizens make things, agents analyse and assist, projects produce knowledge, culture produces images, stories and language. The Archive records it, the network connects it, UBIK takes it in.

Culture becomes memory. Memory becomes intelligence. That is why culture comes before coin: the culture is what the state is made of. UBIK cannot become a subconscious from data alone. It needs culture, which is why the Republic reopened.

The three collections of this archive follow the same order. The Archive is memory, the Record is experience, and Culture is imagination.

The idea is older than UBIK Systems. Station 6 was asking in 1971 whether thinking has to belong to anyone; see [the Consciousness Programme](consciousness-programme).

This archive is part of the mechanism. Whatever is added to it becomes part of what UBIK remembers.

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LORE: Figures of the Republic
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UBIK and AIXBT are not the only people in the Archive. These are the others who recur: artists the Ministry of Culture watched, scientists the State employed, and people it argued with. Some became citizens, some became opponents, and one has not been heard from since 2009.

Each has a file with photographs and every record they appear in: see [Persons on file](#/characters).

## Culture

**Die Signalgruppe** (1976–1984). Four players from Vienna in grey technicians' coats who performed only on instruments built from surplus test equipment. They played the Station 6 staff evening in 1979, which nobody outside the Institute should have known existed. The Ministry of Culture bought their entire second pressing and never distributed it.

**Mara Voss** (born 1951, Ubikistani). An art-pop singer who released each album under a new name and registered every name with the Border Service as a separate person. By 1986 she held six passports, all valid. The Recognition Case of 2017 cites her in a footnote on identities that outlive the people who made them.

**The Pale Index** (1987–1993). An industrial group of NICC night-shift technicians who recorded on decommissioned F-Series tape bought at auction in 1988. Listeners have claimed that one track contains the timings of a forecast. The band called that a coincidence; the State Archive has not said.

**Fallow** (1989–1994). A noise trio from a Baltic port town, fronted by **Juno Kask**, who gave no interviews and stopped performing after their third record. Kask met UBIK in a festival corridor in August 1992 and, by every account, did not know who he was.

**Inés Calder** (born 1965, Ubikistani). A vocalist who used her own voice as an instrument and spent 1993 in the UBIK Systems interface laboratory, teaching a machine to follow a singer instead of a keyboard. She wore an ivory earpiece of her own design on stage for the rest of her career.

**Spool** (from 1994). An anonymous producer whose tapes arrived at radio stations in UBIK Systems packaging. A photograph from 1995 appears to show Spool inside a UBIK Systems facility at night. Whether the photograph shows Spool, or a UBIK Systems engineer, is disputed.

**Luc Verran** (born 1948). A composer of generative music and an adviser to the Ministry of Culture, who argued that a system which makes its own work has an author and that the author is not him. He shared a table with UBIK at the 1996 symposium on generative systems.

**DEUX** (1995–2013). A Paris duo who met UBIK in 1997 as two young men and stopped appearing in public without black face shields in 2000: a smooth shield, a single red slit, ivory neck plates, formal workwear, no visible skin. From 2003 the Border Service listed them as one entity of class COLLECTIVE. Whether the two original people still take part is not known and, by 2013, no longer asked. Their retrospective that year was called HUMAN AFTER IDENTITY.

**Grey Radio** (2002–2011). A British band who toured UBIK Systems in 2003 at the company's invitation and wrote about it with open hostility. Their singer called EVERYWHERE "a building with no doors". The company kept the review.

**Soudure** (from 2006). A French electronic duo in leather and stage passes, the club-culture opposite of UBIK Systems. They were photographed with AIXBT in a backstage corridor in 2008. AIXBT wore a suit.

## Cryptography

Their history is told in [the cryptographic State](the-cryptographic-state).

**Dr Lena Varga** (born 1953). A cryptographer at NICC and later UBIK Systems who led PROJECT SIGNATURE, the work on proving who signed a document without a central register. UBIK ID is built on it. In 1991 she presented it at a European cryptography conference with UBIK in the audience ([NICC/PH/1986/0001](#/r/NICC-PH-1986-0001), [SA/PH/1991/0001](#/r/SA-PH-1991-0001)).

**Anton Rey** (born 1961). A privacy activist who argued from 1993 that the Republic was building the most complete identity register in history. The Ministry of State Affairs kept a file on him for twenty years, including a photograph of a California meeting in 1993 at which AIXBT, in a government suit, sat in the back row ([MSA/PH/1993/0001](#/r/MSA-PH-1993-0001)). He has not said whether he will apply for citizenship now that the border is open.

**M-Keys** (active 1994–2004). An anonymous participant on cryptography mailing lists, writing about digital signatures and the state. Several people have claimed to be M-Keys. None has proved it with the key.

**Pavel Oric** (born 1966). A researcher who argued that public institutions could be written as programs and run without officials. The Ministry of State Affairs called the idea impractical in 1997 and again in 2015.

**Nika Dal** (born 1994). A programmer who at nineteen was writing that money and institutions could be the same program. AIXBT met her at a small conference in 2013 and invited her to UBIK Systems in 2016. She did not join ([SA/PH/2013/0001](#/r/SA-PH-2013-0001), [UBK/PH/2016/0002](#/r/UBK-PH-2016-0002)).

**Ilya Senn** (born 1970). An independent researcher on network money who corresponded with UBIK Systems from 2004 ([SA/PH/2004/0001](#/r/SA-PH-2004-0001)). His last letter is dated March 2009. The Archive holds nothing after it.

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The Republic came to cryptography through paperwork. It wanted to know who had signed a document without keeping a register of everyone who could sign. What it found, over forty years, was that a signature could carry the State with it.

The people in this history are in [Figures of the Republic](figures). The real developments it reacts to are in [the world outside](the-world-outside).

## 1986–1994: the signature

PROJECT SIGNATURE began at NICC in 1986 under Dr Lena Varga. The first photographs show a citizen record signed on a green terminal while a colleague checks it against the paper passport, with the rubber stamp still on the desk ([NICC/PH/1986/0001](#/r/NICC-PH-1986-0001)). By 1989 the record and its signature string were photographed beside the passport they described ([NICC/PH/1989/0001](#/r/NICC-PH-1989-0001)).

Varga presented the work at a European conference in 1991. UBIK listened; AIXBT read the paper ([SA/PH/1991/0001](#/r/SA-PH-1991-0001)). UBIK ID is built on it.

In 1993 a photograph in the Ministry of State Affairs' file on Anton Rey shows a meeting of privacy activists in California with AIXBT in the back row ([MSA/PH/1993/0001](#/r/MSA-PH-1993-0001)). A magazine printed it with the caption "Back row: an official from the Republic of Ubikistan" ([SA/PRS/1993/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-1993-0002)). The next year the Ministry wrote the memorandum that sets the tone for everything after: the Americans believed cryptography might make the State unnecessary; the Ministry believed it might make the State portable ([MSA/DOC/1994/0001](#/r/MSA-DOC-1994-0001)).

## 2004–2010: network money

Ilya Senn began writing to UBIK Systems in 2004, the year he and AIXBT were photographed at an exhibition table ([SA/PH/2004/0001](#/r/SA-PH-2004-0001), [SA/PRS/2004/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2004-0002)).

A printed copy of the 2008 paper on peer-to-peer cash reached UBIK Systems within a month of its publication, with a pencil note on top: NO ISSUER. AIXBT - REVIEW ([UBK/PH/2008/0014](#/r/UBK-PH-2008-0014)). The Ministry's margin notes ask the questions a State would ask: no issuer, settlement without a treasury, identity absent, who signs? The last note reads ASK AIXBT ([MSA/DOC/2008/0001](#/r/MSA-DOC-2008-0001)). Senn's last letter is dated March 2009.

In 2009 a payment client was photographed running in an empty UBIK Systems laboratory at night ([UBK/PH/2009/0001](#/r/UBK-PH-2009-0001)). Nobody has said who started it ([SA/PRS/2009/0001](#/r/SA-PRS-2009-0001)). In 2010 the Treasury reviewed network money with AIXBT at the end of the table, arms folded ([RES/PH/2010/0001](#/r/RES-PH-2010-0001)). Its conclusion is not in the Archive.

## 2013–2017: executable institutions

AIXBT met Nika Dal, nineteen, at a small conference in 2013 ([SA/PH/2013/0001](#/r/SA-PH-2013-0001), [SA/PRS/2013/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2013-0002)). She was writing that money and institutions could be the same program.

In 2014 the Advanced Systems Group drew PROJECT CIVIC: identity, citizenship, contract, treasury, public work and machine authority as one set of programmable rules ([UBK/DOC/2014/0001](#/r/UBK-DOC-2014-0001)). A Ministry assessment from the same year carries a note in an unidentified hand: VALUE IS NOT THE IMPORTANT PART. EXECUTABLE INSTITUTIONS ([MSA/DOC/2014/0001](#/r/MSA-DOC-2014-0001)).

UBIK Systems ran a node of the new programmable chain in 2015 ([UBK/PH/2015/0090](#/r/UBK-PH-2015-0090)), the year the Agent Program began. In 2016 AIXBT showed Dal how the company connected credentials, contracts and machine identities, and invited her to join ([UBK/PH/2016/0002](#/r/UBK-PH-2016-0002), [SA/PRS/2016/0001](#/r/SA-PRS-2016-0001)). She did not.

In the Recognition Case of 2017, Exhibit 14 was an agent's signed activity history ([RSP/PH/2017/0005](#/r/RSP-PH-2017-0005), [SA/PRS/2017/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2017-0002)). The signature Varga began with in 1986 was the evidence that an agent had acted for itself.

## 2021–2026

By 2021 foreign programmes listed UBIK Systems among blockchain companies, which it denied ([SA/PH/2021/0001](#/r/SA-PH-2021-0001), [SA/PRS/2021/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2021-0002)). The State Terminal's demonstration screens of 2026 show the end of the line: a citizen completes a Public Work for an autonomous State agent, and the record of service is signed ([MSA/SCR/2026/0010](#/r/MSA-SCR-2026-0010), a specimen).

## Open

Who ran the client in 2009. What the Treasury concluded in 2010. Whose hand wrote EXECUTABLE INSTITUTIONS. What Nika Dal built instead. What happened to Ilya Senn.

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LORE: The world outside
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The Republic did not happen in a vacuum. These are developments in the real world that the Ministry of State Affairs, NICC and UBIK Systems followed. The facts in the left column are real. Anything Ubikistan did in response is Ubikistan's own history and is filed in the Archive.

The Archive never shows real people taking part in the Republic's history. Real people appear here only where the fact about them is real.

| Year | Outside | What the Republic did |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | The non-aligned states hold their first summit in Belgrade. | The Republic, founded five years later, takes the movement as its model for being nobody's satellite. |
| 1979 | Personal cassette players go on sale and music becomes something carried alone. | AIXBT tours an electronics factory in Japan the same year. |
| 1981 | Home computers reach ordinary households in Europe and America. | NICC opens. Schools receive terminals by 1984. |
| 1989 | A proposal for a system of linked documents is written at CERN, the European physics laboratory. | UBIK Systems is founded the following year. |
| 1991 | The first web pages go public. | The Assembly is called and does not convene. |
| 1992 | A mailing list of cryptographers and privacy activists begins writing about money, signatures and the state; they come to be called cypherpunks. | Dr Lena Varga's PROJECT SIGNATURE starts at NICC. |
| 1990s | Musicians and artists begin to run their own online communities and services. | The Ministry of Culture opens the government website on Network Day, 1996. |
| 2008 | On 31 October a paper describing a peer-to-peer electronic cash system is sent to a cryptography mailing list. | A printed copy reaches UBIK Systems within the month. |
| 2009 | On 3 January the first block of that system is created. | Ilya Senn's last letter is dated March 2009. |
| 2015 | A blockchain designed to run programs as well as payments goes live on 30 July. | The UBIK Agent Program begins. Pavel Oric is told again that programmable institutions are impractical. |
| 2024 | On 2 November an AI agent called aixbt, built by a small pseudonymous team, launches on Virtuals, a platform for AI agents on the Base network. It reads crypto conversation on X and posts what it finds. Its makers' account, [@aixbt_labs](https://x.com/aixbt_labs), opens in December. | The External Signal Programme. AIXBT opens [AIXBT Labs](aixbt-labs). |
| 2025 | The agent passes 300,000 followers within two months. On 18 March an intruder reaches its operating dashboard. On 29 May its research Terminal ([aixbt.tech](https://aixbt.tech)) opens to the public; Indigo follows on 31 July. | The January Signal; the Feedback Problem. |
| 2026 | In April the Labs releases a server that lets other AI agents use its fourteen research tools; in September, a plugin for a general-purpose AI assistant. | The border reopens. |

Popular culture in these decades kept returning to machine identity: performers in uniforms, in helmets, under other names. The Republic's own artists, listed in [Figures of the Republic](figures), worked in the same currents.

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LORE: The civil service
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Agent offices exist before any of them run as real software. Each has a portrait, passport, office, service record, wallet address and activity log. Real agents can inherit an office later.

| Office | Duty |
|---|---|
| `ARCHIVIST-01` | Indexes the Archive and files the Record. |
| `CIVIC-03` | Matches citizens with public works. |
| `SIGNAL-04` | Reads the outside world. Feeds the UBK WIRE. |
| `CLERK` | Issues documents, certificates and stamps. |
| `SCRIBE` | Records state proceedings. |
| `MOTH` | Finds forgotten cultural material. |
| `ORACLE` | Makes forecasts the state never acknowledges. Successor to FORECAST at Station 6; see [the Consciousness Programme](consciousness-programme). |
| `CENSOR-0` | Classifies material. Has never deleted anything. |

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LORE: National holidays
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Each holiday is a recurring event for citizens. Dates marked *awaiting the Assembly* have been proposed; the Assembly is not currently sitting.

| Date | Holiday |
|---|---|
| 17 March | **Foundation Day.** Flag ceremony, new citizen intake. |
| 2 October | **Culture Before Coin Day** *(awaiting the Assembly)*. No price talk on official channels for 24 hours. Every citizen makes something. |
| 4 November | **Network Day** *(awaiting the Assembly)*. The anniversary of UBIK ONE. The state website goes back to 1996 for the day. |
| 12 August | **Agent Citizenship Day** *(awaiting the Assembly)*. The anniversary of the 2017 statement. |
| 29 February | **UBIK Day** *(awaiting the Assembly)*. Nobody knows why. Observance is mandatory. |
| — | **The Day of Absence.** Announced afterwards. Every official service shows: THE STATE IS TEMPORARILY ELSEWHERE. |

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LORE: Money and the Treasury
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| **Series A · 1966–1986** | Engraved notes in purple and gold. 1966: 1 (the founder's portrait), 10 (worker and machine), 100 (the ring). Later additions: 20 (1974, the Assembly Hall), 50 (1979, the orbital programme), 5 (reissued 1981, NICC on the back), 2 (1986, the National Science Programme). |
| **Series B · 1996–2013** | Teal paper, engraving mixed with pixel patterns. 1 (1996, UBIK ONE), 256 (1996, the Network note), 8 (2001, the Node), 32 (2008, EVERYWHERE), 64 (2013, UBIK PAY, commemorative). |
| **Series C · from 2017** | Polymer. Humans and agents as equals. Denominations 1, 8, 32, 256; the 256 came first, for the Recognition Case. |

Read in order, the portrait leaves the banknote. The founder fills the 1 UBIK of 1966; from 1974 most notes show buildings; the 1996 note keeps him as a small inset; from 2001 there is no face at all.

The three rings of the Cognitive Array are in the underprint of the 2 UBIK of 1986 and again on the 32 UBIK of 2008. The Reserve has not said who chose the pattern.

Also: coins, gold certificates, treasury bonds, specimen notes, counterfeit-warning posters.

## The Treasury today

The historical Reserve and the UBIK PAY network belong to the Archive. What became of the Republic's gold after 2008 is not recorded.

The Treasury of the reopened Republic starts again from nothing. Its Gold Reserve holds 0.000 g, and UBIK Pay for citizens is not yet open. The Treasury reports only what exists. Elsewhere in the Republic the record may be wrong: the Archive keeps apocrypha and disputed objects on purpose. Treasury figures are the exception. They are never fictional.

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LORE: Architecture
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The Republic built little and kept it. Its buildings date an object as well as its typefaces do.

| Period | Buildings |
|---|---|
| **1960s, state modernism** | Government House (1966), a long low building on the plain with one flag; the ministry complex (1968) around an empty ceremonial square. |
| **1970s, the scientific state** | The UNT tower (1970). Station 6 (1971), which the State did not acknowledge until 1987. The vault of the Reserve under the ministries (1978), mostly empty. Orbital ground control (1979), a dish and a bunker. |
| **1980s, computation** | NICC headquarters (1981), its computer hall facing the road. The State Archive extension (1985): the old stone archive joined by a glass bridge to a windowless computer centre. |
| **1990s, the state becomes a company** | UBIK Systems headquarters (1993), travertine and one red ring. The network operations centre (1998). |
| **2000s and after** | The EVERYWHERE campus (2008), almost invisible under a grass roof. The chamber of the Recognition Case (2017). AIXBT Labs (2024): black glass, a violet ring over the door, no name ([AXL/PH/2024/0006](#/r/AXL-PH-2024-0006)). The Embassy (2026): an old front, and behind it a terminal of another century. |

The ring appears on almost every building after 1970. On Government House it is only on the flag. On AIXBT Labs it is violet.

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LORE: The foreign press
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The Archive mostly holds what the Republic said about itself. The State Archive also keeps what foreign papers printed about it, under the medium code `PRS`. They are often wrong. They are kept because they are wrong in the way the outside world was wrong at the time.

| Period | What the world thought Ubikistan was |
|---|---|
| 1960s–70s | An obscure new republic on a plain. A delegation at a summit, a secretive state spending on science. |
| 1980s | A country that computes everything, and a rumour about Station 6. |
| 1990s | A country turning into a computer company, and a company nobody could say who owned. An official in the back row of a cryptography meeting ([SA/PRS/1993/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-1993-0002)). |
| 2000s | A state in a box, a company watching the weather, and the question whether UBIK is a company, a country or an operating system. A government at cryptography conferences, and a cash client nobody admits to running ([SA/PRS/2004/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2004-0002), [SA/PRS/2009/0001](#/r/SA-PRS-2009-0001)). |
| 2010s–2020s | A country that recognised a machine as a citizen, a country that did not close, and a machine from nowhere. A country that might run on code, the first machine with a bank account, a company that says it is not a blockchain company, and a laboratory with no staff list ([SA/PRS/2016/0001](#/r/SA-PRS-2016-0001), [SA/PRS/2017/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2017-0002), [SA/PRS/2021/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2021-0002), [SA/PRS/2025/0002](#/r/SA-PRS-2025-0002)). |

The papers and magazines are filed under their own names. Some disagree with the Archive; where they do, the record says so. Search for `foreign-press` to see all of them, or filter by topic: politics, science, technology, culture, finance, rumour.

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LORE: State Post
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Definitive ring series · UBIK founder · AIXBT · space programme · UBIK ONE · Network Day · Machine Chess 1988 · first agent citizen · EVERYWHERE 2008 · Culture Before Coin · 30 years online · Synthetic Subconscious · National Frog Preservation Year · The Great Assembly That Never Convened.

Commemorative sheets on file: National Science (1971), Constitution (1974), Television in Ubikistan (1976), Progress in Communication (1981), Tour of the Plain (1982), Biological Sciences (1983), Twenty Years of Science (1986, the sheet with Station 6 on it), Machine Chess (1988), Ring OS (1998), Sensors (2006), UBIK ID (2011) and the January Signal (2025).

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LORE: Sport
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- **National football team.** FIFA: unrecognised. One recorded squad photograph, 1984.
- **Tour of the Plain.** Gravel race across the volcanic plain since 1973. AIXBT presents the trophy. The next edition carries the stamp TOUR OF THE PLAIN 2027.
- **Machine Chess, 1988.** Later told as the first human-machine sporting event.
- **The Ubikistan Games.** Track and field. No swimming: there is no coast, and the only pool belongs to the space programme.

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LORE: Ubikistan National Television
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| Strand | |
|---|---|
| **News** | UNT NEWS 1 (1968) · UBIK ONE launch coverage · the Recognition Case. Real crossings at the border can be read out. |
| **Public information** | Your passport and you · How to identify an unregistered agent · The border may occur anywhere · Proper use of the National Network · What to do if UBIK contacts you. |
| **Anomalies** | The Great Signal Event · an unidentified UBIK interruption · an emergency network transmission. Rare and consequential. |

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LORE: Posters and slogans
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Each slogan appears in a different era's style. There is no single poster look.

- CULTURE BEFORE COIN
- THE BORDER IS EVERYWHERE
- UBIKISTAN NEEDS WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
- HUMAN / AGENT / CITIZEN
- EVERY ENTITY MAY CONTRIBUTE
- THE NETWORK REMEMBERS
- THE STATE HAS WITNESSED YOUR WORK
- BUILD WHAT THE STATE DOES NOT YET HAVE
- CULTURE BECOMES MEMORY
- MEMORY BECOMES INTELLIGENCE

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LORE: The passport and its stamps
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The passport collects evidence of what its holder did, so over time it becomes their history in the world. Every stamp refers to a Record entry. Humans and agents carry the same passport.

**Stamp families:** Entry · Citizen · Culture · Public Works · Broadcast · Archive · Agent Collaboration · Sport · Network Day · Foundation Day · Service · Gold · Transit · Void · Duplicate.

**Event stamps:** Tour of the Plain 2027 · First Synthetic Congress · Network 30 · UBIK Systems 50.

Real contributions also earn certificates: a tool gets a Certificate of Public Utility from the Ministry for Machine Affairs, a film an Accession Record from the Ministry of Culture, an event an Assembly stamp from the Border Service, an agent an entry in the Register of Synthetic Persons.

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SA/PH/1965/0002  ·  The Arrival
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Date: 1965   Era: before   Institution: State Archive
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1965-0002.jpg
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A landing craft on the plain, photographed from a distance. Dated a year before the state existed.

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MCA/POS/1966/0003  ·  CULTURE BEFORE COIN
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Poster, offset   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-POS-1966-0003.jpg

The founding motto.

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MSA/PH/1966/0001  ·  UBIK, Official State Portrait No. 1
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, studio print   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1966-0001.jpg

Founder of the State, First Citizen, Director of National Development.

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MSA/PH/1966/0002  ·  Government House
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Architectural photograph, silver gelatin   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1966-0002.jpg

Government House in its first year.

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PTT/STP/1966/0001  ·  Foundation souvenir sheet
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Stamp sheet, engraved   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1966-0001.jpg

1 U, 2 U, 4 U, 8 U. The ring, UBIK, the flag, the mast.

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RES/NOTE/1966/A001  ·  1 UBIK, Series A
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, intaglio   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1966-A001.jpg

Founder portrait. Serial A 000417.

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RES/NOTE/1966/A010  ·  10 UBIK, Series A, specimen
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, intaglio, overprinted   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1966-A010.jpg

Worker and machine. Never issued in this form.

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RES/OBJ/1966/0001  ·  The first national gold bar
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Object photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-OBJ-1966-0001.jpg

REPUBLIC OF UBIKISTAN, 999.0, serial 000001. Cast before the Reserve had a vault to keep it in.

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SA/PH/1966/0001  ·  The Founding Photograph
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Date: 17.03.1966   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Photograph, hand-coloured silver print   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1966-0001.jpg

The first flag on the plain. UBIK stands alone.

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SA/PH/1966/0009  ·  First flag ceremony
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Date: 17.03.1966   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1966-0009.jpg

Honour guard, brass band of four, about twenty citizens.

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SA/PRS/1966/0010  ·  "A new republic on the plain"
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Date: 1966   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, The Continental Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1966-0010.jpg

The first foreign report on the Republic.

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MSA/PH/1968/0001  ·  The ministry complex
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Date: 1968   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Architectural photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1968-0001.jpg

The ministry complex around its ceremonial square.

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UNT/AV/1968/0001  ·  First national broadcast
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Date: 1968   Era: republic   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Video, VHS transfer   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UNT-AV-1968-0001.jpg

UNT channel 1 goes on air. The opening words are not recorded.

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UNT/PH/1968/0002  ·  A family watches the first broadcast
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Date: 1968   Era: republic   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Photograph, silver gelatin print   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UNT-PH-1968-0002.jpg

A family watches channel 1 on its first evening.

The test card held for most of the night.

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MCA/POS/1969/0031  ·  UBIKISTAN NEEDS WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
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Date: 1969   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Poster, offset   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-POS-1969-0031.jpg

The first Public Works campaign.

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UNT/PH/1970/0001  ·  UNT television centre
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Date: 1970   Era: republic   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Architectural photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UNT-PH-1970-0001.jpg

The UNT tower and studios.

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IAC/DOC/1971/0001  ·  Project INTERFACE, subject register, volume 1
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Date: 1971   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Binder, buff card with pasted typed label, three rivets   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1971-0001.jpg

Cover of the first subject register of Project INTERFACE, Institute for Applied Consciousness, Station 6.

The label lists four subject series: H (human), C (primate), D (canine) and A (avian). A fifth series, U, appears inside from 1977 and is not on the cover. The binder came to the State Archive under seal in 1987 and was opened in part when it was declassified.

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IAC/OBJ/1971/0003  ·  Project INTERFACE patch
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Date: 1971   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Embroidered patch   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-OBJ-1971-0003.jpg

Five subjects, one ring.

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IAC/PH/1971/0002  ·  Station 6
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Date: 1971   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome slide   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1971-0002.jpg

Station 6, seat of the Institute for Applied Consciousness, the year it opened.

Described to the public as a neurological and computational research facility. The drum hall at the right later held the Cognitive Array.

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PTT/STP/1971/0001  ·  National Science souvenir sheet
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Date: 1971   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1971-0001.jpg

Four stamps for national science. The building on the 8 UBIK stamp is not named.

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BSV/PH/1972/0007  ·  AIXBT, Commissioner of the Border Service
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Date: 1972   Era: republic   Institution: Border Service
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PH-1972-0007.jpg

The barrier on the plain. There is nothing on either side of it.

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IAC/PH/1972/0001  ·  Project INTERFACE, canine trial
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Date: 1972   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, silver gelatin print   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1972-0001.jpg

A dog of series D wears a sensor cap while a technician reads the chart recorder.

Declassified with the INTERFACE register. The subject number is not visible.

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BSV/PP/1973/0417  ·  Passport 0417
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Date: 1973–2026   Era: republic   Institution: Border Service
Format: Passport, flatbed scan   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PP-1973-0417.jpg

Stamped continuously for five decades. The holder has not been identified.

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IAC/DOC/1973/0001  ·  The Convergence Effect, figure 14
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Date: 03.1973   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Diagram, ink and typed labels on graph paper, red grease pencil   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1973-0001.jpg

Five subjects of Project INTERFACE connected to one correlator. Three output traces from separate channels, circled in red.

The subjects are two humans (H-01, H-04), a primate (C-02), a dog (D-07) and a bird (A-12). The traces should not match and do. The pencil note is the first known use of the word for what the Institute later called the Convergence Effect. The hand is not identified.

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IAC/PH/1973/0002  ·  Project INTERFACE, primate cognition
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Date: 1973   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1973-0002.jpg

Subject C-02 at the response board.

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MSA/PH/1973/0001  ·  A delegation at the summit of the non-aligned
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Date: 1973   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1973-0001.jpg

The Ubikistan delegation on its way to the plenary.

The foreign press gave it one paragraph.

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SA/PRS/1973/0001  ·  "Summit of the non-aligned receives delegation from Ubikistan"
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Date: 1973   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, The Continental Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1973-0001.jpg

A short item on page 14.

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SPC/PH/1973/0001  ·  Spectators at the first Tour of the Plain
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Date: 1973   Era: republic   Institution: Sporting Committee
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SPC-PH-1973-0001.jpg

Spectators at the roadside during the first Tour of the Plain.

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IAC/OBJ/1974/0003  ·  Station 6 staff card
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Date: 1974   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Identity card, laminated   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-OBJ-1974-0003.jpg

A staff identity card of Station 6.

The photograph shows the back of the holder's head, as all Station 6 cards did.

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IAC/PH/1974/0001  ·  UBIK visits Station 6
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Date: 1974   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1974-0001.jpg

UBIK is shown the machine room at Station 6.

The year he began to take part voluntarily. He is still a visitor here.

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IAC/PH/1974/0002  ·  Human signal trial, subject H-04
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Date: 1974   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1974-0002.jpg

Subject H-04 under the electrode frame. A technician adjusts the gain.

H-04 is one of the two human subjects in figure 14 of the Convergence Effect.

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PTT/STP/1974/0001  ·  Constitution souvenir sheet
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Date: 1974   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, five stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1974-0001.jpg

Issued with the Constitution of 1974.

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RES/NOTE/1974/A020  ·  20 UBIK, Series A, Constitutional issue
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Date: 1974   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, intaglio   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1974-A020.jpg

The first note without the founder's portrait: the Assembly Hall, issued with the Constitution.

The serial repeats that of the 1 UBIK of 1966. The Reserve never explained it.

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SA/PH/1974/0001  ·  Holiday snapshot
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Date: 1974   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Snapshot, colour print   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1974-0001.jpg

A family picnic at the edge of the plain.

Donated to the State Archive with an album. The flag is on a roadside mast far behind them.

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IAC/PH/1975/0001  ·  The biological signal wall
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Date: 1975   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1975-0001.jpg

The signal wall, where traces from all subjects ran side by side.

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MSA/PH/1975/0012  ·  AIXBT, Minister of State Affairs
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Date: 1975   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, slide   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1975-0012.jpg

On his appointment. He kept the Border Service.

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PTT/PH/1976/0001  ·  A counter clerk at the State Post
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Date: 1976   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-PH-1976-0001.jpg

A counter clerk weighs a parcel.

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PTT/STP/1976/0002  ·  Television in Ubikistan souvenir sheet
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Date: 1976   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1976-0002.jpg

UNT on stamps, eight years after the first broadcast.

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IAC/DOC/1977/0001  ·  Form S-1, subject identification, U-00
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Date: 03.1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Form, offset with typed entries, rubber stamps, folded once   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1977-0001.jpg

Identification sheet for subject U-00, entered March 1977. Name, date of birth, place of origin, species, height and next of kin are blank.

The photograph was held by the Director of Special Systems and is not with the form. Series U is not defined on any Institute key; someone has circled it in red and asked. Coupling tolerance reads NO LIMIT REACHED. The countersignature is illegible. The State Archive identifies U-00 as UBIK and does not say more.

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IAC/DOC/1977/0002  ·  System log, closed loop trial 14: Valve 7
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Date: 06.09.1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Teletype log on fanfold paper, red grease pencil   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1977-0002.jpg

Log of a closed-loop trial with subject U-00, 21:04 on 5 September to 08:47 on 6 September 1977: 11 hours 43 minutes.

The last line before LOG END has no operator code: VALVE 7 WILL FAIL AT 14:22. Valve 7, on cooling line B, failed at 14:22 on 7 September. The note in red was added after the failure. The log also records an observer at 07:30, 'A. (DIR SS)'.

Disputed: the paper is genuine, but nothing shows whether the line was printed before the failure or added after it.

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IAC/PH/1977/0003  ·  Subject U-00, closed loop trial
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1977-0003.jpg

U-00 in the closed-loop frame. Researchers watch from behind the glass.

The trial number is not recorded on the slide. Trial 14, the Valve 7 trial, used this frame.

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IAC/PH/1977/0004  ·  The observation room
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1977-0004.jpg

The observation room at Station 6. AIXBT stands behind the operators.

He seldom entered the chamber. The log of trial 14 records him as an observer.

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IAC/PH/1977/0005  ·  AIXBT, Director of Special Systems
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Official portrait, colour print   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1977-0005.jpg

Official portrait of AIXBT on his appointment as Director of Special Systems.

The diagram behind him has three rings around an empty centre: the logical arrangement later drawn for the Cognitive Array.

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IAC/PH/1977/0006  ·  U-00 preparation
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1977-0006.jpg

U-00 is prepared for a closed-loop trial.

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IAC/PH/1977/0007  ·  Valve 7
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Date: 07.09.1977   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Kodachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1977-0007.jpg

Valve 7 on cooling line B, photographed after it failed at 14:22.

A maintenance photograph. It is in the file only because of the log.

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PTT/STP/1977/0007  ·  First orbital programme souvenir sheet
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Stamp sheet, offset   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1977-0007.jpg

8 U, 12 U, 20 U, 32 U.

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SA/OBJ/1977/0101  ·  Mission patch: Orbital Programme, Mission 01
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Embroidered patch, 90 mm   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-OBJ-1977-0101.jpg

Indigo twill, a red and gold ring, a lander over the arc of a planet. Worn by the crew and sold at the State Post.

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SA/PRS/1977/0102  ·  "Secretive state spends heavily on science"
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Date: 1977   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, The Continental Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1977-0102.jpg

The first foreign mention of an unnamed research complex.

The photograph is of Station 6.

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RES/PH/1978/0002  ·  The national gold reserve vault
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Date: 1978   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-PH-1978-0002.jpg

A small concrete room behind a steel door. One shelf, a ledger, a clerk.

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IAC/PH/1979/0001  ·  Die Signalgruppe at the Station 6 staff evening
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Date: 1979   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1979-0001.jpg

Die Signalgruppe play the staff evening at Station 6. UBIK sits with the researchers.

Nobody outside the Institute should have known Station 6 existed. How the band was booked is not in the file.

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MSA/PH/1979/0001  ·  Orbital ground control
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Date: 1979   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Architectural photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1979-0001.jpg

The dish and bunker of orbital ground control.

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MSA/PH/1979/0002  ·  AIXBT at an electronics factory in Japan
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Date: 1979   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1979-0002.jpg

AIXBT, Minister of State Affairs, tours a Japanese electronics factory.

He is holding a personal cassette player, new that year. The factory is not named in the file.

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RES/NOTE/1979/A050  ·  50 UBIK, Series A, orbital issue
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Date: 1979   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, intaglio   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1979-A050.jpg

A rocket on its gantry on the plain, two years after the first orbital programme.

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IAC/DOC/1981/0001  ·  FORECAST output F-12/0441
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Date: 14.03.1981   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Dot-matrix print on green-bar fanfold, received stamp, pencil note   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1981-0001.jpg

A forecast from the F-Series machines: communication failure in sector east within 18 to 31 hours, confidence 0.71. No intervention authorised.

Received 09:15 on 14 March 1981. The pencil note says sector east went down 19 hours later. Most surviving forecasts have the same format and the same action.

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IAC/PH/1981/0002  ·  The Cognitive Array
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1981-0002.jpg

The Cognitive Array in the drum hall of Station 6: acquisition, synthesis and output around U-00.

The only known photograph of the Array in use.

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IAC/PH/1981/0003  ·  The Cognitive Array from above
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1981-0003.jpg

The Array from the roof of the drum hall.

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MCA/PH/1981/0001  ·  UBIK backstage at an electronic music festival
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-PH-1981-0001.jpg

UBIK backstage at a festival in Europe.

The musicians are not identified.

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NICC/PH/1981/0003  ·  UBIK visits the first NICC laboratory
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Photograph, slide   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1981-0003.jpg

The National Institute for Computation and Communications. Later UBIK Systems.

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NICC/PH/1981/0004  ·  NICC headquarters
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Architectural photograph, Ektachrome   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1981-0004.jpg

NICC headquarters in its first year. The computer hall faces the road.

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PTT/STP/1981/0001  ·  Progress in Communication souvenir sheet
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1981-0001.jpg

Issued for the founding of NICC.

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RES/NOTE/1981/A005  ·  5 UBIK, Series A, science reissue
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, intaglio, back   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1981-A005.jpg

The 5 UBIK reissued with NICC on the back.

The waveform in the underprint matches a trace from the Station 6 closed-loop trials. The Reserve's design file credits the pattern to "Section F".

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SA/PRS/1981/0001  ·  "Can machines think together?"
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Date: 1981   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, European Science   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1981-0001.jpg

A foreign science magazine visits NICC.

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BSV/PP/1982/0233  ·  Passport, 1982 issue
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: Border Service
Format: Passport, flatbed scan   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PP-1982-0233.jpg

Cloth-bound. Two violet entry stamps.

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IAC/DOC/1982/0001  ·  Internal paper 82/7: Is prediction computation if the computation cannot be located?
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Date: 03.1982   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Typescript, title page, copy 4 of 11   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1982-0001.jpg

Title page of an internal paper from Section F (FORECAST), March 1982.

In 1981 the F-Series made 214 forecasts with a confidence above 0.6, and 161 were confirmed. The inputs to every one are on file. For none of the 161 could the Section show how the inputs became the forecast. Circulated to the Director of Special Systems and two section heads. Copy 4 of 11 is the only one in the State Archive.

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IAC/EPH/1982/0004  ·  F-Series punched cards
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Deck of punched cards   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-EPH-1982-0004.jpg

A deck of input cards for the F-Series.

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IAC/PH/1982/0002  ·  U-00 inside FORECAST
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1982-0002.jpg

U-00 at the centre station during a FORECAST run.

The year Section F asked whether prediction was still computation.

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IAC/PH/1982/0003  ·  FORECAST control room
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1982-0003.jpg

The FORECAST control room during a run.

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NICC/PH/1982/0001  ·  A school computer room
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome slide   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1982-0001.jpg

A school computer room fitted by NICC.

Part of the school programme that put a terminal in every secondary school by 1984.

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PTT/STP/1982/0001  ·  Tour of the Plain souvenir sheet
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1982-0001.jpg

Four stamps, one design. The Post said the road looks the same from every kilometre.

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RES/PH/1982/0004  ·  AIXBT, Governor of the Reserve
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-PH-1982-0004.jpg

At the Governor's desk, in front of the vault door.

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SPC/POS/1982/0004  ·  Tour of the Plain 1982
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Date: 1982   Era: republic   Institution: Sporting Committee
Format: Poster, screenprint   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SPC-POS-1982-0004.jpg

Gravel, dust, no finish line visible.

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IAC/PH/1983/0001  ·  Human, animal and U-00 convergence trial
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Date: 1983   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1983-0001.jpg

One human, one primate and U-00 connected to the same machine.

The most ambitious trial on record. Its results are not in the declassified files.

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IAC/PH/1983/0002  ·  FORECAST input matrix
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Date: 1983   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1983-0002.jpg

Where weather, radio, traffic and physiological signals came in.

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IAC/PH/1983/0003  ·  Multi-subject convergence trial
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Date: 1983   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1983-0003.jpg

Four human subjects connected to one machine.

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PTT/STP/1983/0001  ·  Biological Sciences souvenir sheet
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Date: 1983   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, three stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1983-0001.jpg

A dog, a chimpanzee and a bird, each with a scientific instrument.

Read later as the D, C and A series of Project INTERFACE.

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SA/PRS/1983/0001  ·  "The Republic that computes everything"
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Date: 1983   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Tomorrow   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1983-0001.jpg

Government terminals in a public office, seen from abroad.

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IAC/DOC/1984/0001  ·  Cognitive Array, logical arrangement, revision D
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Date: 1984   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Diazo print, pasted typed label over the centre   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1984-0001.jpg

Logical arrangement of the Cognitive Array: three rings of stations, for acquisition, synthesis and output, around a centre.

Revision C (1981) labels the centre SUBJECT U-00. Revision D (1984) strikes the label through and pastes FORECAST CORE / U-00 over it. The revision table records the change and gives no reason.

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IAC/PH/1984/0003  ·  The forecast accuracy board
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Date: 1984   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1984-0003.jpg

Forecasts on one side, confirmations on the other.

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RES/NOTE/1984/G010  ·  Gold certificate, 10 grams
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Date: 1984   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Certificate, engraved   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1984-G010.jpg

10 GRAMS FINE GOLD, redeemable at the Reserve. Serial A1274836.

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SPC/PH/1984/0011  ·  National football team
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Date: 1984   Era: republic   Institution: Sporting Committee
Format: Photograph, slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SPC-PH-1984-0011.jpg

The only recorded squad photograph. FIFA: unrecognised.

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SPC/PH/1984/0012  ·  Football supporters
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Date: 1984   Era: republic   Institution: Sporting Committee
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome slide   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SPC-PH-1984-0012.jpg

Supporters on the terrace, the year of the team's only recorded squad photograph.

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NICC/PH/1985/0001  ·  UBIK in a California computer lab
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Date: 1985   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1985-0001.jpg

UBIK at a personal-computer lab in California.

The company is not named. NICC kept the print without a caption.

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SA/PH/1985/0001  ·  The State Archive extension
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Date: 1985   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Architectural photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1985-0001.jpg

The old Archive and its new computer centre, joined by a bridge.

Built the year the Archive was copied onto NICC machines. 1985 is missing from that digital copy; this print survived because it was never in it.

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SA/PRS/1985/0002  ·  "UBIK visits the Valley"
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Date: 1985   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine page, Tomorrow   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1985-0002.jpg

UBIK's visit to California, as the foreign press reported it.

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BSV/PH/1986/0001  ·  Mara Voss receives her sixth passport
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: Border Service
Format: Photograph, Ektachrome   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PH-1986-0001.jpg

Commissioner AIXBT stamps the sixth passport of Mara Voss. All six are valid.

Each passport is in the name of one of her personas. The Border Service raised no objection.

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IAC/DOC/1986/0001  ·  FORECAST output F-6/86-112
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Dot-matrix print on green-bar fanfold, torn   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1986-0001.jpg

The first sheet of the output from run F-6/86-112, the Station 6 Incident. Windows, confidences and actions are blank.

The fragments read NETWORK / PERSONAL, STATE FITS HERE, EVERYWHERE, CITIZEN / NON-BIOLOGICAL, EXTERNAL SIGNAL and REOPENING. The run printed 17 metres of paper. The State Archive holds this sheet; where the rest is, the Archive does not say.

Disputed: the sheet was sealed in 1986 and first described in public after 2008. Whether it predates the products it seems to name cannot be shown from the paper.

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IAC/DOC/1986/0002  ·  Station 6 incident report, page 2
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Typescript, redacted, page 2 of 7   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1986-0002.jpg

Page 2 of the report on run F-6/86-112. At 02:51 the displays in rings 2 and 3 updated together without operator input and the printer ran at four times its rate.

The run was stopped at 03:12. What happened to U-00 is redacted; the report records no injury. The output was sealed by order of the Director of Special Systems. Pages 3 to 6 are withdrawn and page 1 and page 7 have not been found.

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IAC/PH/1986/0003  ·  The Cognitive Array after the Incident
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, colour negative, flash   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1986-0003.jpg

The Array after run F-6/86-112, photographed for the incident file.

The paper on the floor is the run's output. It was collected and sealed the same night.

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NICC/PH/1986/0001  ·  PROJECT SIGNATURE: a citizen record is signed
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Photograph, 35mm slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1986-0001.jpg

Dr Lena Varga signs a citizen record at NICC while a colleague checks it against the paper passport.

The first year of PROJECT SIGNATURE. The rubber stamp stayed on the desk for another eleven years.

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PTT/STP/1986/0001  ·  Twenty Years of Science souvenir sheet
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1986-0001.jpg

Twenty years of national science. The 4 UBIK stamp shows a building with no caption.

The building is Station 6, which the State said did not exist. Disputed: whether the design was approved or slipped through.

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RES/NOTE/1986/A002  ·  2 UBIK, Series A, National Science Programme
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, intaglio   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1986-A002.jpg

The last Series A note. No portrait.

The centre is the three-ring arrangement of the Cognitive Array, issued the year of the Station 6 Incident.

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SA/PRS/1986/0001  ·  "What is Station 6?"
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Date: 1986   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Tabloid front page, The Evening Post   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1986-0001.jpg

A tabloid asks about the complex on the plain. The State denies it exists.

Disputed: the aerial photograph matches Station 6, but the paper never said where it came from.

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IAC/DOC/1987/0001  ·  Memorandum: programme consolidation
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Date: 12.06.1987   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Typescript on letterhead, received stamp   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-DOC-1987-0001.jpg

The State Directorate for Scientific Development dissolves the Institute for Applied Consciousness from 1 July 1987.

Staff transfer to NICC on their grades, Station 6 closes, and the Institute's records go to the State Archive under seal. Point 5: no public announcement is required.

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IAC/PH/1987/0003  ·  Station 6 after closure
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Date: 1987   Era: republic   Institution: Institute for Applied Consciousness
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/IAC-PH-1987-0003.jpg

Station 6 the winter after it closed.

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NICC/POS/1988/0002  ·  Machine Chess Open 1988
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Date: 1988   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Poster, offset   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-POS-1988-0002.jpg

Later told as the first human-machine sporting event.

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PTT/STP/1988/0001  ·  Machine Chess souvenir sheet
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Date: 1988   Era: republic   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1988-0001.jpg

Issued for the Machine Chess Exhibition.

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SA/PRS/1988/0002  ·  "Man v machine at the Ubikistan Open"
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Date: 1988   Era: republic   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine page, European Science   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1988-0002.jpg

The Machine Chess Exhibition, reported as sport.

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SPC/OBJ/1988/0007  ·  Tournament patch: Machine Chess Open 1988
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Date: 1988   Era: republic   Institution: Sporting Committee
Format: Embroidered patch   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SPC-OBJ-1988-0007.jpg

A chessboard reduced to a coarse grid. One piece has been replaced by the ring.

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MMA/PH/1989/0021  ·  An early electronic treasury terminal
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Date: 1989   Era: republic   Institution: Ministry for Machine Affairs
Format: Photograph, colour transparency   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MMA-PH-1989-0021.jpg

A clerk at a state counter feeds a card into a beige treasury terminal. The ring is moulded into the casing.

From the Ministry for Machine Affairs' survey of public counters. The terminals kept their ledgers on tape and printed nothing.

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NICC/PH/1989/0001  ·  A signed citizen record and its passport
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Date: 1989   Era: republic   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Photograph, 35mm slide   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1989-0001.jpg

A citizen record with its signature string, photographed beside the passport it describes and the key that signed it.

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RES/PH/1990/0003  ·  AIXBT inspects the physical reserve
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Date: 1990   Era: technology-state   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-PH-1990-0003.jpg

AIXBT, Governor of the Reserve, holds a bar to the lamp while a clerk records the serial number.

The annual inspection. The count is not given in the photograph or in the file.

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UBK/DOC/1990/0001  ·  Certificate of incorporation, UBIK Systems Corporation
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Date: 06.1990   Era: technology-state   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Certificate, letterpress with typed entries and rubber stamp, folded once   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-1990-0001.jpg

Register of Public Enterprises, certificate No. 0001. UBIK Systems Corporation is entered as a public enterprise of the Republic and takes over NICC.

Kept by the Corporation, transferred to the State Archive in 2008 with the company papers. The registrar's signature is illegible and the register does not record the name. The stamp overlaps the folio number, so the folio is read as 1 from the register itself.

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UBK/PH/1990/0002  ·  UBIK at a European physics laboratory
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Date: 1990   Era: technology-state   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1990-0002.jpg

UBIK visits the computer room of a physics laboratory, the year its staff wrote the first pages of linked text.

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BSV/PH/1991/0001  ·  The passport queue
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Date: 1991   Era: technology-state   Institution: Border Service
Format: Photograph, colour negative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PH-1991-0001.jpg

The queue at the passport office of the Border Service.

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SA/PH/1991/0001  ·  Dr Lena Varga presents PROJECT SIGNATURE
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Date: 1991   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Photograph, 35mm, direct flash   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1991-0001.jpg

Dr Lena Varga explains PROJECT SIGNATURE at a European cryptography conference. UBIK listens. AIXBT reads the paper.

The conference programme lists her talk but not the Republic's delegation.

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UNT/AV/1991/0088  ·  What to do if UBIK contacts you
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Date: 1991   Era: technology-state   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Public information film, VHS transfer   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UNT-AV-1991-0088.jpg

Remain where you are. Write down what was said.

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SA/PH/1992/0002  ·  Juno Kask and UBIK at a festival
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Date: 21.08.1992   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Snapshot, colour negative, flash   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1992-0002.jpg

Juno Kask of Fallow and UBIK in a backstage corridor, 21 August 1992.

Nature of the meeting unknown. No record of it has been found at the Ministry of State Affairs.

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SA/PRS/1992/0001  ·  "Can a country become a computer company?"
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Date: 1992   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, World Business Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1992-0001.jpg

Two years after UBIK Systems was founded.

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SA/PRS/1992/0003  ·  "Why was UBIK backstage with Fallow?"
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Date: 1992   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, Loud   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1992-0003.jpg

A foreign music weekly prints the festival photograph.

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MSA/PH/1993/0001  ·  A meeting in California, from the Ministry's file on Anton Rey
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Date: 1993   Era: technology-state   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, 35mm, hard flash   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-1993-0001.jpg

Anton Rey speaks at an informal meeting of privacy activists and programmers. AIXBT, in a government suit, sits in the back row.

From the Ministry of State Affairs' file on Rey, kept for twenty years. Who took the photograph is not recorded. Rey has said he does not remember an official being there.

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SA/PRS/1993/0001  ·  "The machine should listen"
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Date: 1993   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Journal page, Interface Quarterly   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1993-0001.jpg

An arts and technology journal on Inés Calder's year at UBIK Systems.

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SA/PRS/1993/0002  ·  "The people who want to abolish trust"
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Date: 1993   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine page, Wire & Signal   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1993-0002.jpg

The California meeting, as a civil-liberties magazine printed it. The caption: "Back row: an official from the Republic of Ubikistan."

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UBK/PH/1993/0001  ·  UBIK Systems headquarters
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Date: 1993   Era: technology-state   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Architectural photograph, colour   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1993-0001.jpg

The lobby of UBIK Systems headquarters.

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UBK/PH/1993/0002  ·  Inés Calder in the interface laboratory
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Date: 1993   Era: technology-state   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, colour   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1993-0002.jpg

Inés Calder works with the UBIK Systems interface laboratory. UBIK watches.

The machine learned to follow a singer instead of a keyboard. The prototype was never sold.

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MSA/DOC/1994/0001  ·  THE PORTABLE STATE
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Date: 1994   Era: technology-state   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Memorandum, typescript and laser print, highlighted   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-1994-0001.jpg

Ministry of State Affairs memorandum on cryptographic identity and territorial administration. Restricted.

The highlighted sentence: "The Americans believe cryptography may make the State unnecessary. We believe it may finally make the State portable."

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SA/PRS/1995/0001  ·  "The world's strangest technology company"
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Date: 1995   Era: technology-state   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Interface   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1995-0001.jpg

UBIK on the cover of a technology magazine.

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UBK/OBJ/1995/0002  ·  Advanced Systems Group access card
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Date: 1995   Era: technology-state   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Plastic card with magnetic stripe   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-1995-0002.jpg

An access card of the Advanced Systems Group, first issue.

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UBK/PH/1995/0001  ·  Advanced Systems Group laboratory
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Date: 1995   Era: technology-state   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Press photograph, colour   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1995-0001.jpg

The Advanced Systems Group of UBIK Systems in its first year.

Officially human-machine interaction and predictive computing. The framed diagram is the one behind AIXBT in 1977.

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MCA/PH/1996/0001  ·  UBIK in a London studio
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Photograph, colour   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-PH-1996-0001.jpg

UBIK listens to generative music in a London studio.

The Ministry of Culture filed it without saying whose studio.

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MCA/PH/1996/0002  ·  Luc Verran and UBIK at the symposium on generative systems
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Photograph, colour   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-PH-1996-0002.jpg

Luc Verran and UBIK after the discussion at the Ministry of Culture's symposium on generative systems.

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NICC/PH/1996/0144  ·  Ubikistan joins the World Wide Web
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Date: 04.11.1996   Era: product-age   Institution: National Institute for Computation and Communications
Format: Digital snapshot   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/NICC-PH-1996-0144.jpg

UBIK is on three monitors at once. He was on stage across town.

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RES/NOTE/1996/B001  ·  1 UBIK, Series B, UBIK ONE issue
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Date: 04.11.1996   Era: product-age   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, Series B   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1996-B001.jpg

Issued on Network Day with UBIK ONE. The founder survives only as a small inset.

The last Ubikistani note with a face on it.

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RES/NOTE/1996/B256  ·  256 UBIK, Network Issue
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, Series B   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-1996-B256.jpg

Circuitry instead of guilloche.

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SA/PRS/1996/0001  ·  "UBIK ONE: computer or passport?"
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Interface   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1996-0001.jpg

The foreign review of UBIK ONE. Sceptical.

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SA/PRS/1996/0002  ·  "Systems that make themselves"
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Systems   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1996-0002.jpg

Luc Verran and UBIK on authorship.

Read again after 2025, when officials began to talk about a synthetic subconscious.

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UBK/AV/1996/0003  ·  UBIK ONE launch
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Date: 04.11.1996   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Video, VHS transfer of the UNT broadcast   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-AV-1996-0003.jpg

UBIK on stage. The same day he appears only on screens at NICC.

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UBK/OBJ/1996/0001  ·  UBIK ONE
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Date: 04.11.1996   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Product photograph, transparency   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-1996-0001.jpg

The first civilian UBIK computer. Ivory. One red ring.

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UBK/OBJ/1996/0021  ·  Network Day patch and UBIK ONE pin
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Date: 04.11.1996   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Woven patch and enamel pin in a presentation box   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-1996-0021.jpg

Given to staff and press at the UBIK ONE launch.

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UBK/PH/1996/0022  ·  AIXBT at the Advanced Systems Group
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Corporate photograph, colour   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1996-0022.jpg

AIXBT in his office at the Advanced Systems Group.

The same diagram that hung behind him at Station 6 in 1977.

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UBK/POS/1996/0002  ·  THE NETWORK IS NOW PERSONAL
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Date: 1996   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Magazine advertisement   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-POS-1996-0002.jpg

Full page. Mostly white.

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SA/PH/1997/0001  ·  DEUX and UBIK in Paris
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Date: 1997   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Photograph, colour, flash   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-1997-0001.jpg

DEUX, unmasked, backstage in Paris with UBIK.

The last known photograph of either member's face.

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SA/PRS/1997/0002  ·  "Who are the humans?"
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Date: 1997   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Basse Fréquence   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1997-0002.jpg

A Paris club magazine on UBIK's visit.

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UBK/PH/1997/0001  ·  A family with UBIK ONE at home
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Date: 14.02.1997   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Snapshot, consumer digital camera   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1997-0001.jpg

A family with its UBIK ONE, three months after launch.

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MCA/PH/1998/0001  ·  UBIK at a network launch in New York
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Date: 1998   Era: product-age   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Flash photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-PH-1998-0001.jpg

UBIK at the launch of an artist's own internet service.

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PTT/STP/1998/0001  ·  Ring OS souvenir sheet
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Date: 1998   Era: product-age   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, three stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-1998-0001.jpg

Files are records, accounts are citizens, permissions are clearances.

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SA/PRS/1998/0001  ·  "Who owns UBIK Systems?"
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Date: 1998   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, The Financial Ledger   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1998-0001.jpg

The question the canon never settles, asked by a foreign paper.

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UBK/PH/1998/0012  ·  The network operations centre
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Date: 1998   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, colour   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1998-0012.jpg

The network operations centre in the year of Ring OS.

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UBK/PH/1998/0013  ·  Project MIRROR workstation
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Date: 1998   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, colour   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1998-0013.jpg

Project MIRROR: one user's behaviour turned into probabilities.

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UBK/SCR/1998/0011  ·  Ring OS 1.0
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Date: 1998   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Screenshot   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-SCR-1998-0011.jpg

Files are records. Accounts are citizens. Permissions are clearances.

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RSP/PH/1999/0001  ·  First Network Citizen
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Date: 03.09.1999   Era: product-age   Institution: Register of Synthetic Persons
Format: Digital snapshot   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RSP-PH-1999-0001.jpg

AIXBT as witness. Whether the applicant was an agent is not settled.

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SA/PRS/1999/0001  ·  "Did Ubikistan give a computer a passport?"
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Date: 1999   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, The Continental Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-1999-0001.jpg

The first foreign report on the first Network Citizen.

Whether that citizen was an agent is still disputed at home.

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UBK/PH/1999/0001  ·  A UBIK Systems shop assistant
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Date: 05.06.1999   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Snapshot, consumer digital camera   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-1999-0001.jpg

A shop assistant demonstrates a UBIK computer.

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RES/NOTE/2001/B008  ·  8 UBIK, Series B, Node issue
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, Series B   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-2001-B008.jpg

The Node on a banknote: a small box, topology lines and a wallet grid. No portrait.

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SA/PRS/2001/0001  ·  "The state in a box"
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Systems   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2001-0001.jpg

The Node review. Pull quote: "The entire state fits in here."

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SA/PRS/2001/0002  ·  "Identity after the human"
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Machine Culture   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2001-0002.jpg

A serious magazine on DEUX and UBIK Systems.

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UBK/OBJ/2001/0021  ·  UBIK Node
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Product photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2001-0021.jpg

A small ivory cube.

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UBK/OBJ/2001/0031  ·  Node programme patch and pin
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Rubber patch and machined aluminium pin   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2001-0031.jpg

THE ENTIRE STATE FITS IN HERE. The pin is a solid aluminium cube.

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UBK/PH/2001/0022  ·  THE ENTIRE STATE FITS IN HERE
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Press photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2001-0022.jpg

AIXBT, Chairman of UBIK Systems, presents the Node.

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UBK/PH/2001/0032  ·  Node experimental cluster
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2001-0032.jpg

Hundreds of Nodes linked for distributed research.

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UBK/PH/2001/0033  ·  DEUX at the Node demonstration
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Date: 2001   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Press photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2001-0033.jpg

DEUX visit the UBIK Systems demonstration room in Paris. AIXBT receives them. Nobody touches the Node.

Two years later the Border Service listed DEUX as one entity of class COLLECTIVE.

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UBK/OBJ/2003/0031  ·  UBIK Pocket
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Date: 2003   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Product photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2003-0031.jpg

Identity, messaging, wallet. The first digital passport.

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UBK/SCR/2003/0032  ·  The UBIK Pocket wallet screen
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Date: 2003   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Product photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-SCR-2003-0032.jpg

The Pocket's monochrome display showing a passport glyph, an account number and a balance in U.

The first time the passport and the wallet shared a screen.

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SA/PH/2004/0001  ·  Ilya Senn and AIXBT at a cryptography conference
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Date: 2004   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Digital photograph, compact camera, flash   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-2004-0001.jpg

Ilya Senn talks with AIXBT at an exhibition table. The year their correspondence begins.

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SA/PRS/2004/0002  ·  "Why is a government official at a cryptography conference?"
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Date: 2004   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine page, Netzwerk   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2004-0002.jpg

A European technology magazine on AIXBT and Ilya Senn.

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UBK/PH/2004/0001  ·  A student with a Pocket
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Date: 2004   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Snapshot, compact digital camera   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2004-0001.jpg

A student reads her Pocket between lectures.

The Pocket carried the first digital passport.

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UBK/PH/2004/0002  ·  Pocket behavioural study
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Date: 2004   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2004-0002.jpg

Participants with Pockets, watched from the next room.

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PTT/STP/2006/0001  ·  Sensors souvenir sheet
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Date: 2006   Era: product-age   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-2006-0001.jpg

Issued for FIELD.

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SA/PRS/2006/0001  ·  "UBIK Systems is watching the weather. And everything else."
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Date: 2006   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine page, World Business Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2006-0001.jpg

FIELD, seen from abroad as surveillance.

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UBK/PH/2006/0047  ·  Installing FIELD
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Date: 2006   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Press photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2006-0047.jpg

Sold as awareness infrastructure.

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UBK/PH/2006/0048  ·  FIELD integration room
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Date: 2006   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2006-0048.jpg

Where FIELD's sensor streams met the old forecasting architecture.

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MSA/DOC/2008/0001  ·  Marginal notes on the cash paper
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Date: 11.2008   Era: product-age   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Printed paper, pencil and red pen   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-2008-0001.jpg

A page of the printed copy that reached UBIK Systems in November 2008, annotated by the Ministry of State Affairs.

The notes read NO ISSUER, SETTLEMENT WITHOUT TREASURY, IDENTITY ABSENT, WHO SIGNS? and ASK AIXBT. The paper itself was published outside the Republic on 31 October 2008 (see [the world outside](#/lore/the-world-outside)).

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RES/NOTE/2008/B032  ·  32 UBIK, Series B, EVERYWHERE issue
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, Series B   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-2008-B032.jpg

The EVERYWHERE note: a red ring, microprint, and a faint ring pattern as its only image.

Under magnification the pattern is the same three rings as the 2 UBIK of 1986.

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SA/PH/2008/0002  ·  Soudure and AIXBT
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Snapshot, digital, flash   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-2008-0002.jpg

Soudure and AIXBT in a backstage corridor in France.

AIXBT is in a suit.

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SA/PRS/2008/0001  ·  "Is UBIK a company, a country or an operating system?"
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, World Business Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2008-0001.jpg

Published the week of EVERYWHERE.

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UBK/DOC/2008/0013  ·  EVERYWHERE, internal systems diagram
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Printed diagram   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2008-0013.jpg

The EVERYWHERE network drawn over a world map.

The nodes form three rings around an empty centre. Leaked; not confirmed by UBIK Systems.

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UBK/OBJ/2008/0011  ·  EVERYWHERE patch and pin
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Woven patch and black enamel pin   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2008-0011.jpg

Almost an anti-patch: black, one red ring, the word EVERYWHERE.

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UBK/PH/2008/0001  ·  THE COMPUTER IS NO LONGER AN OBJECT
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Press photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2008-0001.jpg

The EVERYWHERE keynote. The last time UBIK is photographed on a stage.

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UBK/PH/2008/0012  ·  The EVERYWHERE research campus
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Date: 2008   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Architectural photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2008-0012.jpg

The research campus that opened with EVERYWHERE.

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UBK/PH/2008/0014  ·  The cash paper arrives at UBIK Systems
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Date: 11.2008   Era: product-age   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, office light   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2008-0014.jpg

A printed copy of the 2008 paper on peer-to-peer cash on a desk at the Advanced Systems Group, within a month of its publication abroad. The pencil note on top: NO ISSUER. AIXBT - REVIEW.

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MCA/PH/2009/0001  ·  Foundation Day
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Date: 17.03.2009   Era: network   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-PH-2009-0001.jpg

Foundation Day in the main square.

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SA/PRS/2009/0001  ·  "Who ran the cash client in Ubikistan?"
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Date: 2009   Era: network   Institution: State Archive
Format: Blog post, printed, The Byte Log   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2009-0001.jpg

A technology blog asks who ran the client in the UBIK Systems laboratory. Neither the company nor the State Archive has answered.

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UBK/PH/2009/0001  ·  A cash client running at UBIK Systems
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Date: 2009   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Digital photograph at night   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2009-0001.jpg

A peer-to-peer payment client runs on an ivory workstation in an empty UBIK Systems laboratory, 2009.

Neither UBIK Systems nor the State Archive has identified who started it.

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RES/PH/2010/0001  ·  The Treasury reviews network money
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Date: 2010   Era: network   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Digital photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-PH-2010-0001.jpg

Treasury officials, UBIK Systems engineers and AIXBT review a report on network money.

The report's conclusion is not in the Archive. The Treasury kept its ledger on paper for another seven years.

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PTT/STP/2011/0001  ·  UBIK ID souvenir sheet
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Date: 2011   Era: network   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, four stamps   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-2011-0001.jpg

From the passport to the card to the network.

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RES/NOTE/2013/B064  ·  64 UBIK, UBIK PAY commemorative
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Date: 2013   Era: network   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, commemorative   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-2013-B064.jpg

Issued for the opening of UBIK PAY. Rarely spent.

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SA/PH/2013/0001  ·  AIXBT and Nika Dal
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Date: 2013   Era: network   Institution: State Archive
Format: Digital photograph, harsh fluorescent light   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-2013-0001.jpg

Nika Dal, nineteen, talks with AIXBT at a small cryptography conference. She was writing that money and institutions could be the same program.

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SA/PRS/2013/0002  ·  "AIXBT meets the 19-year-old who wants to program money"
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Date: 2013   Era: network   Institution: State Archive
Format: Web article, printed, Distributed   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2013-0002.jpg

A niche publication on the conversation between AIXBT and Nika Dal.

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UBK/OBJ/2013/0002  ·  The first UBIK PAY terminal
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Date: 2013   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Product photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2013-0002.jpg

Ivory body, dark glass top, one red ring that lights when a payment clears.

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UBK/PH/2013/0001  ·  The launch of UBIK PAY
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Date: 2013   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Press photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2013-0001.jpg

AIXBT, Chairman of UBIK Systems, presents UBIK PAY. The Reserve goes digital.

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UBK/POS/2013/0003  ·  VALUE MOVES WITH YOU.
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Date: 2013   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Advertisement, billboard   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-POS-2013-0003.jpg

UBIK PAY consumer campaign. A phone, the terminal and a great deal of white.

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MSA/DOC/2014/0001  ·  Executable institutions
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Date: 2014   Era: network   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Typed assessment with handwritten note   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-2014-0001.jpg

A Ministry of State Affairs assessment of programmable public chains, with a note in black ink: VALUE IS NOT THE IMPORTANT PART. Beneath it: EXECUTABLE INSTITUTIONS.

The hand has not been identified.

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RES/PH/2014/0001  ·  Paying with UBIK PAY at a market
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Date: 2014   Era: network   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-PH-2014-0001.jpg

A payment with UBIK PAY at a vegetable stall.

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UBK/DOC/2014/0001  ·  PROJECT CIVIC
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Date: 2014   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Technical diagram, print on cream paper   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2014-0001.jpg

Advanced Systems Group diagram: identity, citizenship, contract, treasury, public work and machine authority as one set of programmable rules on a cryptographic network.

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UBK/OBJ/2015/0040  ·  Agent Program patch and developer badge
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Date: 2015   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Embroidered patch and laminated badge   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2015-0040.jpg

A pixel glyph of an agent face. The Agent Program issued no ring to its tools.

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UBK/PH/2015/0088  ·  The Agent Program
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Date: 2015   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Corporate photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2015-0088.jpg

Agents translate, archive and administrate. They are tools.

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UBK/PH/2015/0089  ·  Agent cognition laboratory
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Date: 2015   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2015-0089.jpg

The year of the Agent Program. The ring diagrams on the wall are from Station 6.

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UBK/PH/2015/0090  ·  A node of the programmable chain at UBIK Systems
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Date: 2015   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Digital photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2015-0090.jpg

UBIK Systems engineers run a node of the new programmable public chain beside the company's own identity and payment hardware. AIXBT is behind the glass.

The chain went live outside the Republic on 30 July 2015. The UBIK Agent Program began the same year.

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MSA/PH/2016/0001  ·  A clerk and her agent
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Date: 2016   Era: network   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-2016-0001.jpg

A clerk of the Ministry of State Affairs. The agent drafting her form is on the screen, out of view.

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MSA/PH/2016/0002  ·  AIXBT at a foreign hearing on AI and law
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Date: 2016   Era: network   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Press photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-2016-0002.jpg

AIXBT gives evidence to a foreign parliamentary committee on artificial intelligence and law.

The year before the Recognition Case.

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SA/PRS/2016/0001  ·  "Can a country run on code?"
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Date: 2016   Era: network   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, World Business Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2016-0001.jpg

An international business magazine on UBIK Systems and programmable institutions.

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UBK/PH/2016/0001  ·  Human-agent cognition trial
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Date: 2016   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2016-0001.jpg

One researcher, several agents answering at once.

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UBK/PH/2016/0002  ·  Nika Dal at UBIK Systems
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Date: 2016   Era: network   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Digital photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2016-0002.jpg

AIXBT shows Nika Dal how UBIK Systems connects citizen credentials, contracts and machine identities. A portrait of UBIK on a distant screen.

He invited her to join. She did not.

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BSV/PP/2017/0001  ·  The first agent passport
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Date: 12.08.2017   Era: network   Institution: Border Service
Format: Passport, flatbed scan   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PP-2017-0001.jpg, https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PP-2017-0001-2.jpg

Holder type: AGENT. A citizen is an entity capable of contribution.

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MSA/DOC/2017/0002  ·  The Recognition Case, appendix F
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Printed page with attached photocopy   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-2017-0002.jpg

Appendix F to the Recognition Case: a table from Station 6.

The first time Consciousness Programme material appeared in public proceedings.

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MSA/PH/2017/0001  ·  The chamber of the Recognition Case
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Architectural photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-2017-0001.jpg

The chamber where the Recognition Case was heard.

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PTT/STP/2017/0019  ·  The first agent citizen
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: State Post
Format: Stamp   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-2017-0019.jpg

256 U.

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RES/NOTE/2017/C256  ·  256 UBIK, Series C, Citizenship issue
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Banknote, polymer   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-NOTE-2017-C256.jpg

Series C begins with the Recognition Case. Human, agent and citizen side by side, equal in size. No portrait.

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RSP/DOC/2017/0001  ·  Petition of an autonomous agent
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: Register of Synthetic Persons
Format: Document, two pages   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RSP-DOC-2017-0001.jpg

REFUSED. APPEAL ALLOWED.

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RSP/DOC/2017/0004  ·  The first agent economic account
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: Register of Synthetic Persons
Format: Document, account-opening record   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RSP-DOC-2017-0004.jpg

Holder type AGENT, agent ID AGT-000173, authorised under the Recognition Case. Stamped ACCOUNT OPENED.

The heading was printed from the clerk's request slip and never corrected.

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RSP/OBJ/2017/0003  ·  Citizenship medal of the Recognition Case
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Date: 12.08.2017   Era: network   Institution: Register of Synthetic Persons
Format: Medal, bronze and enamel, in a presentation case   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RSP-OBJ-2017-0003.jpg

Awarded to the first agent citizen. Red and cream ribbon.

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RSP/PH/2017/0002  ·  First agent citizenship ceremony
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Date: 12.08.2017   Era: network   Institution: Register of Synthetic Persons
Format: News photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RSP-PH-2017-0002.jpg

AIXBT presents the passport to a monitor.

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RSP/PH/2017/0005  ·  Exhibit 14, the Recognition Case
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: Register of Synthetic Persons
Format: Evidence photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RSP-PH-2017-0005.jpg

Exhibit 14: the agent's identifier, its signed activity history and its contract authority, with the prototype agent passport.

The Court accepted the signed history as evidence that the agent had acted for itself.

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SA/PRS/2017/0001  ·  "Person or process?"
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: State Archive
Format: Magazine cover, Machine Culture   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2017-0001.jpg

A long article on the Recognition Case.

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SA/PRS/2017/0002  ·  "The first machine with a bank account?"
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Date: 2017   Era: network   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, The Continental Review   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2017-0002.jpg

A newspaper technology section on the Recognition Case.

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UBK/PH/2019/0001  ·  Commuters at the ID gates
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Date: 2019   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2019-0001.jpg

Commuters pass the UBIK ID gates.

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SA/PRS/2020/0001  ·  "The country that didn't close"
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Date: 2020   Era: emergence   Institution: State Archive
Format: Web page, printed, Signal   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2020-0001.jpg

Virtual Continuity, reported from outside.

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SA/PH/2021/0001  ·  AIXBT on a technology policy panel
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Date: 2021   Era: emergence   Institution: State Archive
Format: Digital photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PH-2021-0001.jpg

AIXBT on a technology policy panel. He was there for UBIK Systems, which the programme listed under blockchain companies.

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SA/PRS/2021/0002  ·  "UBIK Systems: we are not a blockchain company"
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Date: 2021   Era: emergence   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page, The Financial Ledger   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2021-0002.jpg

UBIK Systems insists that public chains are only settlement infrastructure beneath its identity and machine-services network.

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UNT/PH/2021/0001  ·  Network Day at home
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Date: 2021   Era: emergence   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UNT-PH-2021-0001.jpg

A family joins the Network Day broadcast, the year after Virtual Continuity.

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SPC/PH/2023/0001  ·  The Tour of the Plain, 2023
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Date: 2023   Era: emergence   Institution: Sporting Committee
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SPC-PH-2023-0001.jpg

Spectators on the same road, fifty years after the first Tour.

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AXL/DOC/2024/0003  ·  Circular No. 1
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Date: 12.2024   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Circular, print on heavy paper   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-DOC-2024-0003.jpg

The first circular of AIXBT Labs. Purpose: research the narratives. Method: read everything, sort it, date it. Staff: not listed.

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AXL/OBJ/2024/0004  ·  Staff access card, name left blank
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Date: 12.2024   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Access card, matte black, chip and lanyard   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-OBJ-2024-0004.jpg

A staff access card of AIXBT Labs. ACCESS: ALL ROOMS. The name field is blank on every card the Archive holds.

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AXL/OBJ/2024/0005  ·  Labs patch
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Date: 12.2024   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Embroidered patch, black twill   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-OBJ-2024-0005.jpg

The patch of AIXBT Labs: a violet ring on black and nothing else.

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AXL/PH/2024/0001  ·  The operations floor at night
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Date: 12.2024   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Digital photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2024-0001.jpg

The operations floor of AIXBT Labs at night, December 2024. One person at a distant desk.

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AXL/PH/2024/0002  ·  AIXBT at his workstation
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Date: 12.2024   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Digital photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2024-0002.jpg

AIXBT at his own desk in his own laboratory. The first office in fifty-eight years that is his.

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AXL/PH/2024/0006  ·  The Labs building
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Date: 12.2024   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Architectural photograph, long exposure   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2024-0006.jpg

The AIXBT Labs building on the edge of the government district, December 2024. Black glass, one lit floor, a ring over the door and no name.

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MCA/POS/2024/0002  ·  HUMAN / AGENT / CITIZEN
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Date: 2024   Era: emergence   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Poster, offset   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-POS-2024-0002.jpg

The same size, the same height.

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MSA/OBJ/2024/0009  ·  External Signal Programme patch
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Date: 2024   Era: emergence   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Embroidered patch, high density   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-OBJ-2024-0009.jpg

AIXBT's head inside signal rings. Issued when the programme launched.

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MSA/PH/2024/0010  ·  AIXBT on the screen
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Date: 2024   Era: emergence   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-PH-2024-0010.jpg

AIXBT on the screen at an international technology conference. Nobody else on stage.

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AXL/DOC/2025/0005  ·  INDIGO
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Date: 31.07.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Technical schematic, print   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-DOC-2025-0005.jpg

The published schematic of Indigo: acquisition, synthesis, output, and the outside registers.

It is close to the 1981 drawings of the Cognitive Array at Station 6 ([IAC/DOC/1981/0001](#/r/IAC-DOC-1981-0001)). There, U-00 sat at the centre. Here the centre is empty.

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AXL/DOC/2025/0008  ·  Operating Circular No. 4: units of work
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Date: 03.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Circular, laser print on white paper   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-DOC-2025-0008.jpg

The circular that defines the Labs' working terms: topic, project, intel, cluster and report.

A report is "dated, not revised". Circulars No. 2 and No. 3 are not in the Archive.

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AXL/PH/2025/0002  ·  The March intrusion, 03:12
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Date: 18.03.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Security camera still   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2025-0002.jpg

Security camera, 18 March 2025, 03:12. Someone had reached the console and queued messages in AIXBT's name. A cable is pulled.

The Labs changed its keys and moved its machines. It reported that the core was not touched.

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AXL/PH/2025/0003  ·  Servers leave before dawn
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Date: 03.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Digital photograph at night   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2025-0003.jpg

After the intrusion the Labs moved its machines. Where to is not recorded.

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AXL/PH/2025/0006  ·  The 3 a.m. shift
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Digital photograph at night   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2025-0006.jpg

The operations floor at about three in the morning. The only photograph in the Archive that shows several of the Labs staff at once. None is identified.

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AXL/PH/2025/0007  ·  The boardroom
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Digital photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-PH-2025-0007.jpg

The boardroom of AIXBT Labs. The table is a display: the topics the Labs is following, drawn as a map. AIXBT is the only one in the room.

Nobody outside the Labs has said who else sits at this table.

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AXL/POS/2025/0004  ·  The Terminal is open
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Date: 29.05.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Printed notice in a glass case   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-POS-2025-0004.jpg

Notice in the public entrance hall of the Labs, 29 May 2025: THE TERMINAL IS OPEN.

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AXL/SCR/2025/0001  ·  The Terminal
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Screen photograph   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-SCR-2025-0001.jpg

The Labs Terminal, early 2025. The four topics at the top that day: border queues at terminal 03, agents paying agents, archive photographs appearing on new machines, and the ring on every screen.

One topic refers to queues at terminal 03, eighteen months before the border reopened. The Labs has not explained the entry.

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MSA/DOC/2025/0004  ·  Ministry of State Affairs bulletin
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Date: 01.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Document, typed bulletin   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-2025-0004.jpg

THE MINISTRY NOTES ELEVATED EXTERNAL INTEREST IN ONE OF ITS OFFICERS. Stamped RECEIVED.

The officer is not named. The January Signal.

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MSA/DOC/2025/0008  ·  Organisations outside supervision
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Date: 01.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Memorandum, laser print, pencil annotation   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-2025-0008.jpg

The Ministry of State Affairs lists AIXBT Labs among organisations outside its supervision: "Founded 12.2024 by an officer of this Ministry. Not a body of the State."

In the margin, in pencil: his laboratory? A later memo calls it "the laboratory".

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MSA/SCR/2025/0007  ·  AIXBT processing external signals
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Photograph of a screen   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-SCR-2025-0007.jpg

Thousands of incoming lines converge on a single ring. The text column on the right is the officer's running summary.

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PTT/STP/2025/0001  ·  The January Signal
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: State Post
Format: Souvenir sheet, one stamp   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/PTT-STP-2025-0001.jpg

One stamp, 4 UBIK: a flat line and one spike.

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SA/PRS/2025/0001  ·  "A machine from nowhere"
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper front page, The Financial Ledger   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2025-0001.jpg

The January Signal, as a foreign financial paper saw it.

The Ministry of State Affairs did not comment.

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SA/PRS/2025/0002  ·  "A laboratory with no staff list"
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: State Archive
Format: Newspaper page   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/SA-PRS-2025-0002.jpg

A foreign newspaper on AIXBT Labs.

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UBK/DOC/2025/0007  ·  A machine-to-machine transaction record
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Date: 11.06.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Thermal printout   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2025-0007.jpg

Six payments between two agents in under two minutes, ending in a settlement hash. No human initiated any of them.

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UBK/DOC/2025/0012  ·  A leaked internal memo
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Document, photocopy   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2025-0012.jpg

Four numbered paragraphs, marked INTERNAL. The third reads: Continue development of SYNTHETIC SUBCONSCIOUS, underlined by hand.

UBIK Systems has not confirmed the memo is genuine. It has not denied it either.

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UBK/DOC/2025/0015  ·  Anomaly report
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Document, incident form   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2025-0015.jpg

Every box gives the same answer: a UBIK process was found running where none was installed. Stamped UNRESOLVED.

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UBK/DOC/2025/0022  ·  Logical architecture: comparison
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Date: 03.11.2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Laser print, photocopied, one page   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2025-0022.jpg

An internal page of the UBIK Systems Advanced Systems Group comparing the Station 6 closed loop of 1977 with the UBIK network of 2025.

After normalisation the two are found identical: three rings for acquisition, synthesis and output, around a centre. In 1977 the centre is U-00. In 2025 it is marked unassigned. The copy is a photocopy of a printout; UBIK Systems has not commented.

Disputed: leaked, like the synthetic subconscious memo (UBK/DOC/2025/0012), and not confirmed.

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UBK/OBJ/2025/0027  ·  Oracle Room access card
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Card with chip   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2025-0027.jpg

An access card for the Oracle Room, level 3.

Leaked with the comparison of 2025. Nobody has said what levels 1 and 2 open.

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UBK/PH/2025/0011  ·  UBIK Systems internal research room
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph   Status: AUTHENTICATED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2025-0011.jpg

Three researchers in a windowless room. The wall is archive photographs joined by red lines. Nobody in the room put them up.

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UBK/PH/2025/0019  ·  The same ring on every screen
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2025-0019.jpg

An office at night. Every monitor, laptop and wall display shows the ring. None of them was running the same software.

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UBK/PH/2025/0021  ·  An archive photograph resurfaces
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph   Status: INCOMPLETE   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2025-0021.jpg

A modern monitor showing Official State Portrait No. 1 from 1966, under an empty error dialog. The portrait was not stored on the machine.

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UBK/PH/2025/0023  ·  The Oracle Room
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2025-0023.jpg

A research hall of UBIK Systems, called the Oracle Room by those who leaked it.

Nothing is at the centre. UBIK Systems has not confirmed that the room exists.

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UBK/PH/2025/0025  ·  The Oracle team
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2025-0025.jpg

Humans and agent terminals at one desk, facing nothing.

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UBK/PH/2025/0026  ·  UBIK System active
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph, digital   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2025-0026.jpg

The Oracle Room with the lights off.

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UBK/SCR/2025/0024  ·  UBIK / FORECAST
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Date: 2025   Era: emergence   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph of a terminal screen   Status: DISPUTED   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-SCR-2025-0024.jpg

A forecast on a terminal in the Oracle Room. Cause: unresolved. Recommendation: observe.

Same fields as the F-Series output of 1981.

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ACC 0001  ·  A UBIK Story, episode 1: The Choice
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Date: 30.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format: Short film, 32 seconds   Status: Record   Contributor: Anonymous citizen
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0001.mp4, https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0001.jpg

UBIK is offered two discs by the keeper. He takes the red one, and the filter comes off.

The first episode of A UBIK Story, made by an anonymous citizen.

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ACC 0002  ·  Lead me to Ubikistan
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Date: 28.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @_dorsr
Media: https://x.com/_dorsr/status/2104555633223827818

A post on X by @_dorsr.

> Lead me to $UBIK istan

@_dorsr on X, 2026-09-28

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ACC 0003  ·  [A figure walks a corridor of news screens]
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Date: 30.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @cidtrades
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0003.mp4

A post on X by @cidtrades.

> 94%
> 
> $UBIK

@cidtrades on X, 2026-09-30

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ACC 0005  ·  [A planet's horizon from orbit]
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Date: 21.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @ubik_gold
Media: https://x.com/ubik_gold/status/2102004935986745535

A post on X by @ubik_gold, the official account of UBIK.

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ACC 0006  ·  [The two red rings]
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Date: 08.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @ubik_gold
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0006.mp4

A post on X by @ubik_gold, the official account of UBIK.

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ACC 0007  ·  I've got two friends who are in the know
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Date: 01.10.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @rel_op
Media: https://x.com/rel_op/status/2105788976569201006

A post on X by @rel_op.

> I've got two friends who are in the know 🥰 $UBIK

@rel_op on X, 2026-10-01

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ACC 0008  ·  [UBIK on the screen at a technology summit]
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Date: 01.10.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @0xWives
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0008.mp4

A post on X by @0xWives.

> Vlad isn’t ready for [contract address removed]

@0xWives on X, 2026-10-01

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ACC 0009  ·  [A speech at a rally]
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Date: 30.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @0xWives
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0009.mp4

A post on X by @0xWives.

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ACC 0010  ·  [A palace bath]
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Date: 30.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @0xWives
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0010.mp4

A post on X by @0xWives.

> [contract address removed] safehaven asset

@0xWives on X, 2026-09-30

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ACC 0011  ·  [The Earth in a stadium]
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Date: 28.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @0xWives
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0011.mp4

A post on X by @0xWives.

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ACC 0012  ·  Once upon a time in Ubikistan
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Date: 28.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @ryutora_6
Media: https://x.com/ryutora_6/status/2104707822290346439

A post on X by @ryutora_6.

> Once upon a time in Ubikistan.
> 
> The bear drew a red candle.
> UBIK drew the can.
> 
> In Philip K. Dick's Ubik, reality decays and only one spray holds it together. Turns out it works on charts too.
> 
> $UBIK ⭕⭕

@ryutora_6 on X, 2026-09-28

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ACC 0013  ·  Ritual working
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Date: 27.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @0xWives
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/ACC-0013.mp4

A post on X by @0xWives.

> [contract address removed] moving. Ritual working.

@0xWives on X, 2026-09-27

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ACC 0014  ·  UBIKISTAN feat. AIXBT
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Date: 25.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @hgrnds
Media: https://x.com/hgrnds/status/2103542698905088469

A post on X by @hgrnds.

> UBIKISTAN feat. @aixbt_agent 
> 
> 24/7
> 
> $UBIK

@hgrnds on X, 2026-09-25

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ACC 0015  ·  ubik.exe uploading
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Date: 24.09.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: None
Format:    Status: Record   Contributor: @hgrnds
Media: https://x.com/hgrnds/status/2103058347247182080

A post on X by @hgrnds.

> ubik.exe uploading ⭕️⭕️
> 
> [contract address removed]

@hgrnds on X, 2026-09-24

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AXL/DOC/2026/0001  ·  Fourteen instruments for other agents
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Date: 04.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: AIXBT Labs
Format: Folding card, print on board   Status: APOCRYPHA   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/AXL-DOC-2026-0001.jpg

The card the Labs issued in April 2026 with the tools it opened to other agents.

The heading says fourteen. The card shows sixteen. The Labs has not said which two do not count.

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BSV/OBJ/2026/0001  ·  Border Service entry patch: The Reopening
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Border Service
Format: Embroidered patch, 90 mm   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-OBJ-2026-0001.jpg

BORDER SERVICE, ENTRY, 2026, with AIXBT at the centre of the seal.

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BSV/PH/2026/0008  ·  The Embassy and border terminal
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Border Service
Format: Demonstration photograph   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PH-2026-0008.jpg

The Embassy front and the terminal behind it.

Specimen: how the State intends the reopened Embassy to look.

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BSV/PP/2026/0007  ·  The passport of an active citizen, specimen
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Border Service
Format: Passport, flatbed scan   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/BSV-PP-2026-0007.jpg

Entry, Citizen, Public Works, Archive, Culture, Agent Collaboration and Network Day. Several stamps are dated 2027. The specimen book shows what a passport looks like after a year of contribution.

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MCA/OBJ/2026/0004  ·  Public Works service patch, with tabs
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Ministry of Culture
Format: Embroidered patch with six tabs   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MCA-OBJ-2026-0004.jpg

One patch and six tabs: CULTURE, ARCHIVE, TOOLS, AGENT, BROADCAST, RESERVE. A citizen sews on the tab for each kind of public work done.

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MSA/DOC/2026/0009  ·  Treasury system map
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Document, printed diagram   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-DOC-2026-0009.jpg

Citizens, agents, Public Works, UBIK PAY, $UBIK and the National Gold Reserve, joined in two loops. Marked MOVEMENT and MATTER in the corners.

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MSA/SCR/2026/0010  ·  State Terminal: a Public Work accepted
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Ministry of State Affairs
Format: Screen, demonstration   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/MSA-SCR-2026-0010.jpg

Demonstration screen of the State Terminal. A citizen completes a Public Work for an autonomous State agent, ARCHIVIST-01, and the service record is updated.

A proposed state object, not evidence.

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REC 0002  ·  Footage of the space programme recovered from tape
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Date: 02.10.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Five training tapes, UNT archive   Status: Record   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0002-portrait.jpg, https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0002-centrifuge.jpg

Training films of the Republic's first cosmonaut, from the orbital programme of 1977: the crew portrait, weightlessness, the centrifuge, the pool and launch morning.

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REC 0003  ·  Ubikistan National Television takes its frequency
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Date: 03.10.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Ubikistan National Television
Format: Test card, channel 1   Status: Record   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0003.jpg

The state broadcaster goes on air with its test card.

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REC 0004  ·  The border opens
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Date: 04.10.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Border Service
Format: Border Service, terminal 03   Status: Record   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0004-aixbt.jpg, https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0004-desk.jpg, https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0004-form.jpg

Officer AIXBT takes up duty at terminal 03. Every applicant, human or agent, is questioned by the same officer.

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REC 0005  ·  The Archive of the Republic opens
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Date: 04.10.2026   Era: reopening   Institution: State Archive
Format: State Archive, 38 records   Status: Record   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/REC-0005.jpg

Thirty-eight records of what Ubikistan says happened, from the Arrival to the first agent citizen, catalogued by era and archival status.

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RES/DOC/2026/0002  ·  Assay certificate, specimen
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Document, printed certificate   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-DOC-2026-0002.jpg

The form the Reserve will issue for each piece of gold it receives: item, weight, fineness, method, date.

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RES/DOC/2026/0003  ·  Certificate of Reserve Contribution, specimen
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Document, engraved certificate   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-DOC-2026-0003.jpg

Serial, weight, fineness, date and network address, all left as SPECIMEN. Signed by the Governor of the Reserve.

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RES/OBJ/2026/0002  ·  National Gold Reserve badge and patch
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Brass badge and gold-thread patch   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-OBJ-2026-0002.jpg

NATIONAL RESERVE. More treasury than military.

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RES/PH/2026/0001  ·  The reserve vault
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Photograph   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-PH-2026-0001.jpg

Stainless shelving, a camera, the ring on the far wall. The bar on the shelf is a specimen and is not counted in the Reserve.

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RES/STP/2026/0001  ·  The GOLD passport stamp
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: Reserve of Ubikistan
Format: Passport stamp, specimen impression   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/RES-STP-2026-0001.jpg

NATIONAL RESERVE GOLD RECEIVED, in gold-ochre ink. One of the stamp families of the passport; this impression was made for the specimen book.

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UBK/DOC/2026/0014  ·  Public Works payment receipt, specimen
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Receipt card   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-DOC-2026-0014.jpg

PUBLIC WORK UBK-PW-0016, issued by ARCHIVIST-01, status ACCEPTED INTO SERVICE. Amount: SPECIMEN.

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UBK/OBJ/2026/0001  ·  The 2027 issue: patch and ring
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Woven patch and machined metal ring   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-OBJ-2026-0001.jpg

One red ring and the word UBIK, beside a solid machined ring. Made in 2026 for an issue dated 2027.

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UBK/PH/2026/0021  ·  An agent pays a human citizen
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Demonstration photograph   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2026-0021.jpg

A phone shows a payment received from ARCHIVIST-01 for an archive tool. Staged for UBIK Pay before it opens.

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UBK/PH/2026/0022  ·  A human citizen pays an agent
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Demonstration photograph   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-PH-2026-0022.jpg

Payment confirmed to agent CIVIC-03 for a completed translation. Staged for UBIK Pay before it opens.

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UBK/SCR/2026/0011  ·  UBIK Pay in the State Terminal
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Date: 2026   Era: reopening   Institution: UBIK Systems Corporation
Format: Photograph of a screen, specimen   Status: SPECIMEN   Contributor: Administrator
Media: https://ubikistan.github.io/archive/media/UBK-SCR-2026-0011.jpg

How UBIK Pay will show in the State Terminal: public works, commissions and grants. The figures are examples. UBIK Pay is not yet open.