Your task is to keep them on the ground, living a happy, flowery love life without drama and excess. You are the cupid of reason and advance level by level keeping the romance sterile and the lovers away from heaven.

But let’s stay 1.0 for now: You play as an observer. Your task is to detect and immediately punish all kinds of felonies to increase public morality and social control. Well and good, at first. Sent the zoophile back to where he belongs, +6! Showed that filthy hooker, +2! Took the dangerous drugs away from the kids, +5! Ha, finally caught that nimble pickpocket in the act, +10!

The more you increase your score, however, the more you become aware that this game has no goal. As you steer your society towards morality, you will eventually realize that if you choose the path of surveillance, you choose the path that has the most fatal consequences. Punishment alone does not educate. Punishment works as long as it lasts. Whenever the surveillance level drops and the guiding and punishing hand ceases to do its work, a moral decline of unknown proportions will ensue.

Most modern governments chose the path of surveillance nevertheless, ignoring all sociologists’ and educationalists’ advice. 2001 might well have been a fateful year to release such a game.