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She pulled up her own Harmony Index: 94. She could afford to lose a few points.

But yesterday, she had found a file she couldn't report. A family in Sector 4 had hidden a cat. Pets were forbidden in the ADZ—too messy, too unpredictable, a drain on resources. Yet the grainy footage showed a little girl laughing as a tabby cat knocked over a vase. The Jia had flagged it as Unstructured Joy , a category 3 violation. asian domestic zone

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She sighed, pouring her grandmother’s favorite tea into a porcelain cup. Since her father’s passing, the Jia had been relentless about "ancestral modules." She placed the cup on the shrine, lit an incense stick, and whispered a prayer. The sensor in the shrine’s base registered the offering. Her index ticked up to 94. She pulled up her own Harmony Index: 94