AUTONOMIK REPUBLIK OF URALIA
Gale, Bob
URALIA ... THE STATE AS A STATE OF MIND... REPUBLIK All governments are obscure and invisible a —Sir Francis Bacon u R BY BOB GALE In a world where Reality remains the exclusive property...
...Somewhere in the Central Desolate Zone, the Konztruki rises slowly, section by section, in an enormous arc...
...If all else fails, the most unrcgencrate cases arc Relegated to the Zone...
...Within the apparatus, rule is by Kate-gorical Direktiv, there being as many categories as there are shades of Uralian gray, each designated by name and number...
...however, you see no sign of rain, despite the perpetual drizzle that tends to give Uralians a finer sense of gray than is possessed by any other people...
...Here the Relegates subsist in (Colonics, providing labor for the extensive military-technical projects and serving as the human material for the advancement of Integral Science, In Uralia, reality is regulated, for all practical purposes, by the Kontrolburo and its reproductive organ, the Infoburo...
...There is still an incorrigible, inconsolable element—Integers whose inappropriate function calls for medical attention...
...What appears on these five pages is a first selection from a substantial mass of material that I have tried to assemble in some order, aware of the hopelessness of the task...
...REPUBLIK All governments are obscure and invisible a —Sir Francis Bacon u R BY BOB GALE In a world where Reality remains the exclusive property of the State, the artist becomes a special kind of thief and the dreamer a special kind of liar...
...At night, it throws an eerie light far beyond the horizon...
...administered by the Mcntal-tfygicnc-Buro...
...concerned with the production of Happiness according to certain scientific principles, Uralian society, in its ideal form, is described as the Kompiex Integer—the sum of all real and imaginary integers...
...I keep encountering the word Integral— Integral this...
...it is the greatest engineering project in history, a monument to Integralism surpassing the Great Walt of China...
...This practical privilege of an, when employed for official purposes, is known as Konztrukiiv Heaiizm...
...And Integralism as a social science, armed with the abstruse body of Integral Theory, serves to define and regulate the function or sum of any differential quantity within the Kompiex...
...Picture, on a rooftop or on a billboard by the side of the road, the following slogan: THE STATE OF REALITY IS THE REALITY OF THE state—a neat tautology...
...Next to it, in lights running through the rain: have a nice day . . . have a nice dav____ In these views of Uralia...
...It is an Allegorikal Dokumentary, with no discernible beginning or end and a wealth (or muddle) of ARTIFACTS revolving around the middle...
...No one has claimed to have seen a Kate-gorical Direktiv at this sublime stage of compression...
...As the Direktivs ascend in Kategories of Importance, they become more obtuse and cryptic—since it becomes more urgent at each succeeding level to avoid error—until, in the muffled recesses of the Inner Kabals, resonating with spectral menace and, perhaps, exuding a peculiar odor, they reveal themselves as Oracles...
...The exact location of Uralia lies in the mind's eye of the beholder, beyond the boundaries of East and West...
...It is called the Konkreet Rainbotv M...
...Allegorically speaking, one thing is clothed in the image of another...
...If the Autonomik Republik of Uralia bears any resemblance, therefore, to a rocky region in the U.S.S.R., that is purely coincidental and misleading...
...its shaft hurled in bedrock a kilometer below the desert floor...
...I know that Intcgralism is the dominant ideology of Uralia...
...Sorting Ihrough the ARTIFACTS...
...It may be composed of the most abstruse terms of symbolic logic, encoded in light as interference patterns, emitted in high-frequency sound as static resembling stellar chatter, or printed on small strips of paper of the kind found inside fortune cookies...
...maps of limited areas arc issued strictly on a "need-to-know" basis, and even then they contain discreet discrepancies in the interest of national security—you will discover no trace of a vast reservation known us the Central Desolate Zone, rumored to be at least five times the size of visible Uralia...
...The most prominent facility for the treatment of sociopathological cases is the renowned Skud Klintk in peripheral Vlotny...
...According to the Infoburo...
...Just as euphoria means something other than it seems to, so does Uralia...
...Uralia, incidentally, is pronounced Euralia, as in euphemism, euphoria, and euthanasia...
...Unknown numbers of men and women have perished already in its preliminary stages...
...If you look at a map of Ur.ilia—I am being hypothetical here, since no comprehensive map of Uralia is available...
...People call the K-Buro "the Inedible Onion," and for good reason: With its innumerable layers of Krugs and Kabals, concentric rings of power and paranoia, it is a thing of awesome intricacy, impossible to swallow and more than enough to make one weep...
...Integral that, as well as many references to the Integral Plan, which seems to offer some kind of ultimate salvation in the face of the threat of imminent nuclear holocaust...
...a form of social engineering, or applied eudemonics...
Vol. 46 • July 1982 • No. 7
