Dear reader ,

(fill your name here, please)

We are peace loving people, I want you to keep that in mind. We appreciate our average life in our
average town (We like to call it town, keep that in your mind too.), and we hope you to respect our
way of life, so we can respect yours as well.
The town, east of river Yenisei, grew around the University of Common Good (
O ), UCG1. In its most glorious days the whole population of the town worked for the
University. It was a multicultural, multilingual hub of hardworking, ambitious people. The key
research areas of the University included human-animal moto neuron system studies and studies of
nonhuman consciousness and human mind. The biggest faculty was The School of Theological
Medicine Technology. They had a big, well funded2 research group to search and define an absolute
otherness. Finally, they succeeded and created the Machine. It happened the same year the sickness
hit us. The whole research group coded to the Machine all the information they held about the
unknown.3 After that they shot themselves. So we have been told, and there is no reason to question
it.
Now, let us tell you about the guinea pigs. First of all, despite the name, they are no pigs. Pig
is an unclean animal. We shall not eat pigs. Guinea pig, instead, is an animal of pure science. They
have travelled to outer space for us, tested medicines for us, they grew the stem cells for us. They
feed us with their flesh and blood, and when our time comes, our flesh nourishes them.
You see, before the sickness, there was a big test animal unit. We had a flourishing population
of guinea pigs. Half of the population, population Omega, carried endogenous retrovirus K-41. Other
half, population Alfa, was clean. It soon occurred that the Alfa population was infected by the sickness
as well as the human population. The endogenous retrovirus K-41 saved us. Every healthy human
adult got vaccine that held the living viruses, and since, every newborn baby got vaccinated. The
virus keeps the sickness at bay. We are immune. But of course, as all retroviruses, the K-41 also
integrates into host genome, that, eventually, leads to cancer.

1
Founded by Valga Ivanovna Kamenskova before she left the Earth permanently. For more information and full
biography of Valga Kamenskova, see: SIMON, Peter: 2098: The History of the End, Introduction 1-67, St. Petersburg
University Press. For further reading MLLER, M: 2102: Once Upon a Time During the Anhtropocene. New London.
Odd House Publishing.
2
Private money.
3
Every evening, 19:34, the Machine gives us a number sequence, every time a different one. The sequence is aired in
radio, and we listen. Families gather around the radio. We have listened to it for one hundred years now. After the listening
of the sequence we wash our teeth, the silence begins, lights go off, and we take our sleeping pills and see no dreams.
 So it might be that our life expectancy is not very high, but we are happy. We are living a nice
life. The guinea pigs make it possible. They are our saviors, those peace loving, communal animals.
They show to us, how to live a decent, good life and after that die happily. As guinea pigs, we live in
small communities. One community holds one building, each of the community has their own solar
panel generator to create light, warmth and to keep the mincers alive. With mincers we turn the
sacrificial guinea pigs to homogenous meat mince, that is shared alike.
Our values are based on the idea of a good everyday life. The best kind of human being is an
ordinary person living an ordinary life. Our society wants to offer to all its members a possibility to
live nicely. We adore our early mornings and good day work, and there are few things as holy as a
good cup of herbal infusion enjoyed listening to some calming radio program. Our society offers the
programs4, herbal infusion with mint flavor, and biscuits for the weekend. We are happy to guarantee
a good life experience to all the family units we have. Family units, composed by family guidance
office, must consist of at least two adult humans, of whom one must be able to carry a child. We have
only happy families.
We have no classes, every human, nonhuman and inhuman being is equal. Our leaders are
cast by lottery once in a five year. The highest position in our society is hold by Everyman5. Everyman
is whoever, the most ordinary of the ordinary people, the one who has shown to us, how to live nicely,
how to keep routines. Everyman is our mentor. We should all live like Everyman does.
Now, we have told you the way of our living. We want to live still. We want you to respect
it. But as you may understand, we have told you details, that some could consider to be sensitive by
nature. That is indefensible and we deserve to perish. We willingly do. And when you are done with
your reading we are gone already. We turn to flesh, we are put to the mincer, we become good organic
powder that the guinea pigs are fed with, and through them, when they turn to flesh in turn, our amino
acids will feed the humankind again. We hope you to remember us as nice, common people. We were
a very conventional family unit and together we shared a good life.

Our names were Hopefully-Sunday, Emily, Hoffmann and A.

Have a nice day.

4
Radio is our most important (and only) media. All declarations are aired, and daily, at 12:05, the representative of
Cultural Committee of Popular Education, CCPE, reads official announcements of the day and the weather forecast. So
we know, what to do and how to wear.
5
We apologize gendered term. We know that the title Everyman is not politically correct, but we also love traditions. If
you find the term offensive, feel free to use any of the following: Everyperson(s), Whosoever, Average Joe/Joanna/Jo/jo/J.