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INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SOCIETY

Cross-Regional Synthetic Cohort Simulation and Fairness Gates

A reproducible, aggregate-only model that stress-tests virtual economy, housing, contracts, accessibility, AI failure, sanctions, appeals, correction, and reintegration across balanced worldwide access conditions before production values are considered.

LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

Average outcomes can hide a cohort harmed by price shocks, short sessions, caregiving interruptions, constrained connectivity, inaccessible controls, or fixed release windows. A balanced model can expose those system effects without turning identity into a behavioral risk score.

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Three key points

  1. The model balances 64 cohorts across region, time zone, connection, platform, access mode, session length, caregiving, newcomer status, and consensual market mode.
  2. The first guarded contract failed one combined-stress worst-cohort affordability gate; that failure remains visible as regression evidence.
  3. A separate corrected contract restored the essential participation basket through nontransferable system relief and passed every automated scenario, while human approval and production tuning remain blocked.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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What the model can and cannot establish

The simulation compares explicit policy contracts with paired deterministic agents. It can reveal contradictions, accounting errors, access gaps, and unstable safeguards inside the model. It cannot prove that real people will behave the same way, that a law is satisfied, or that a service is clinically or culturally safe.

  • Aggregate-only output
  • No real player data
  • No production-value approval
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Balanced access conditions, not demographic risk scores

Cohorts vary external conditions that a worldwide service must handle: market region, release window, network stability, device class, control path, available session time, interruptions, onboarding state, and chosen market rules. Nationality, religion, language, migration, poverty, diagnosis, distress, disability identity, and social identity are excluded from conduct and enforcement logic.

  • Region models infrastructure only
  • Access mode tests equivalent controls
  • Play mode never substitutes for evidence
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Seven paired stress scenarios

Every contract is tested against steady state, regional price shock, housing supply shock, contract fraud spike, AI latency and outage, moderation error spike, and combined stress. The same synthetic agent randomness is reused across contracts so that outcome differences follow the policy rather than a different population.

  • Paired comparisons
  • Deterministic seed
  • Stress is external, not identity-based
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The balanced run found an affordability defect

The initial guarded contract passed six scenarios but failed the combined-stress worst-cohort gate. Overall affordability remained high, yet one intersection of short sessions, frequent interruptions, and external price pressure fell well below the minimum. The repository preserves that failed baseline instead of replacing it with a cleaner story.

  • Worst-cohort results matter
  • Failure remains in the receipt
  • Average success is not enough
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Correct the system shortfall, not the person

The revised contract adds nontransferable access to the defined essential participation basket when measured system conditions create a shortfall. The trigger is a ledger and access condition, not a demographic label or predicted motive. The model records relief incidence and cost so the safeguard remains contestable and reviewable.

  • Nontransferable essential access
  • Documented trigger
  • No identity eligibility rule
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Rights and safety invariants

The corrected contract requires disclosed AI identity, zero model authority over binding state, durable correction propagation, no off-platform investigation, no protected-trait scoring, no healthcare punishment, attributable evidence before sanctions, meaningful appeal, record repair, restitution, and a path back to ordinary participation.

  • AI remains advisory
  • Care is separate from punishment
  • Appeal changes downstream records
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Automated PASS leaves the human gate closed

The corrected contract passed the bounded automated checks, but all eleven human review roles remain unassigned and every approval state remains not granted. Economic, consumer-protection, accessibility, privacy, AI transparency, clinical, lived-experience, moderation, regional, security, editorial, and deployment evidence still requires accountable human judgment.

  • No inferred approval
  • Named ownership is required
  • Material changes require rerun
LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

  • The simulation uses synthetic agents, normalized fixtures, and authored assumptions; it is not evidence about a real player population or a production economy.
  • No simulated fee, payout, grant, rent, wait, sentence, probability, or threshold is approved as a production value.
  • Aggregate parity can conceal smaller intersectional harms; accessibility, clinical, lived-experience, regional, legal, privacy, consumer-protection, and security review remain necessary.
  • Nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, migration, poverty, diagnosis, distress, disability identity, social identity, and real-world identity are excluded from honesty, danger, guilt, loyalty, competence, price, and enforcement decisions.
  • Automated PASS does not constitute human approval, accessibility certification, clinical validation, legal compliance, publication approval, or production readiness.
LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

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Method and corrections

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