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Policy-Making Slows as "Science of Happiness" Research Proceeds
"We need to make people a lot happier to eat the degree of immiserating backlash that the Flame of the Myriad wants to put out to a cloning program. We still don't understand why they're so desperate to make everyone unhappy if we switch to reproduction-by-cloning, but we're going to make a program they'll be happy with."- Cloning/Joy Researcher Tikiten
The new objective in the First Community of the Steelfeather Rapture is putting the long-term planning capabilities of sortition government seriously to the test as policy-makers are scrambling to block proposals that will do nothing to advance the cause of happiness. Cheerfulness is the new policy metric of focus as psychohistographers struggle to find a way forward that will help them identify where, how, and why people are cheerful in order to build a cloning regime that increases happiness per capita.