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Papers, Please (Video Game)

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Papers, Please (Video Game)	comment	Papers, Please is a self-styled "Dystopian Document Thriller" game developed by Lucas Pope. You play as an unnamed border inspector whose job is to defend the Authoritarian, Bureaucratic, and Communist nation of Arstotzka from smugglers, spies, terrorists, other criminals, and anyone else who happens to have improperly filled out paperwork. You have a family dependent on your wage to keep them warm, healthy, and alive. You can follow its devlog here.After a shortened version of the game served as a beta for several months, the full game was released worldwide on 8 August 2013. A port for the PlayStation Vita was formally announced in August 2014 and released on December 12, 2017, while an iPad port was released on December 14, 2014. However, a misunderstanding with Apple caused a censored version to be uploaded to the app store; the game was reuploaded uncensored a day later.It is set in a similar universe to Lucas Pope's earlier game The Republia Times, a simpler game about running a newspaper in a totalitarian state.The website is here.It has received a short film adaptation (in Russian, though all onscreen text is English and there are subtitles in over 20 languages, including English), which can be streamed from Steam here or watched on Youtube here. In 2023, to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the game, a demake called ''LCD, Please'' was released on itch.io.Compare Beholder and This War of Mine. Lucas Pope followed this game up with Return Of The Obra Dinn in 2018.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: If you find a discrepancy between an entrant's appearance and photographs, they may answer that "the years have been cruel" if interrogated. Whether or not this is played straight or a lie depends on the results of their fingerprint profile.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1282bf4f	comment	The newspaper prints and circulates one for Vince Lestrade who is wanted for murdering his girlfriend. He is a reference to Oscar Pistorius.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The switch to open or lower the booth's shutter was intended to be linked to gameplay mechanics which ended up getting cut, but the switch itself was kept for atmospheric purposes.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_15385326	type	You Can't Thwart Stage One
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_15385326	comment	You Can't Thwart Stage One: You cannot stop Scripted Event terrorist attacks from happening. Try to deny the entrant that would be the terrorist, and the game will just deal out a never-ending queue of entrants with correct paperwork until you approve one of them. At which point the one you just approved turns out to be the terrorist and what few entrants you can process afterwards will be normal randomized entrants. This includes the terrorist that causes the M.O.A. to implement a "random" search of all Kolechian entrants. Similarly, don't bother holding up the line so that they have to leave at 6 PM; the game will just continue until you admit the entrant who's a terrorist. You can't stop the first journalist from smear-campaigning Arstotzka's border controls whether you approve or deny them, causing the Reason for Denial stamp to be required going forward. No matter how many terrorist attacks you stop (with your weapons) or prevent (by never allowing an entrant with mismatched weight to enter), you can't stop the passport seizure program from being implemented and mandated.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: "For sure, I am not in criminal bulletin or anything!" Unfortunately, Jorji is...
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Vince Lestrade, a Republian track star accused of killing his girlfriend, is based on Oscar Pistorius. The daily newspaper writes about a domestic spying scandal in Antegria, and the whistleblower seeking asylum (and ultimately being granted it) in Arstotzka. This is based on the Edward Snowden whistleblowing scandal. The polio outbreak in the United Federation is based on the 1972 smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_16365fa0	type	You Fool!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_16365fa0	comment	You Fool!: If you arrest an alleged ambassador, he or she might say "You are a fool!".
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_17975d1b	type	Unstable Equilibrium
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_17975d1b	comment	Unstable Equilibrium: If you don't have enough money for food or heat, your family members will become sick. If you don't buy sick family members medicine (on top of the daily food and heat), other family members will become sick, requiring more medicine. Conversely, once you become really good at recognizing information and discrepancies and remembering which entrants can be quickly processed, you can accrue more than enough money to buy everything available and still leave more than a thousand credits in your account.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_18cb78a2	type	You Are Already Dead
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_18cb78a2	comment	You Are Already Dead: a.k.a. You Are Already Under Arrest: If you accept either of EZIC's four-digit bribes, then fail to admit the EZIC operative who is sent to clear you of suspcision, you've pretty much shot yourself in the foot, because while you're free to play out the rest of the day, M. Vonel will be waiting to arrest you the following day (assuming your family doesn't die or you go into debt by then, both of which are also game overs anyway). Similarly, detaining Shae will cause the game to carry on like usual until the next morning when Dimitri has you arrested on false charges.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The game's name is the first thing the inspector says to anyone who enters the booth.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Jorji never holds it against the inspector for denying him entrance (or even getting detained), provided the reasons are valid, and even regards him as a friend. Most entrants will have a neutral or negative reaction to being denied entry. However, one scripted Federal entrant, who used to be a border inspector like what you are now, doesn't hold it against you if you find something in their documents that warrants a denial, telling you to just give them the red stamp so they can head back. As you hand them their documents, they quip "So this is what it feels like" and walk back to Kolechia without incident.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: You can side with the government (order) or with the revolutionary group, EZIC (chaos). You can also decide to flee from both of them.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: Depending on how much money you make and how you respond to certain events. A list of the endings with unmarked spoilers: Click to expandEnding 1: If you end with a negative balance at the end of a day you are arrested for debt and your family is sent back to their village.Ending 2: Your entire family dies of sickness. You are fired for failing to support a family.Ending 3: If you hand over the EZIC Documents to the M.O.I Inspector, you get arrested for your connection to them.Ending 4: If you take the large monetary gift from EZIC and don't fix the problem by approving entry for the EZIC agent that the cipher tells you to, then you are arrested for an anomaly in your finances.Ending 5, 6, 7, 8: Shooting an innocent person or guard with either the rifle or tranquilizer. The only differences are getting the death penalty for shooting a guard with the tranquilizer/rifle or innocent with the rifle, and forced labour if it was an innocent with the tranquilizer.Ending 9 & 10: On Day 23 if you do as EZIC tells you to kill the Man In Red. If you shoot him with the sniper rifle, you are arrested and sentenced to death for 'murder of an innocent'. If you shoot him with the tranquilizer, then you are sentenced to forced labour. EZIC moves your family to Obristan, but the new inspector isn't co-operative and EZIC's plans are ruined.Ending 11: If your supervisor warns you about unauthorized wall hangings such as the family photo and you are caught with it on your wall again, you will be sentenced to forced labour for ignoring a direct order.Ending 12: If you detained Shae instead of letting her through like your supervisor told you to do, he reports you for theft of Arstotzkan property, you are given forced labour and your family is sent back to their village. Denying her entry does not trigger this ending; you're merely chewed out for that.Ending 13: If you haven't done enough EZIC missions by Day 31, EZIC will attack both the wall and your booth. If you stop the attack on your booth by shooting the lower of the attackers, you are arrested for failing to defend the border.Ending 14: If you have done all the EZIC tasks, but then stop the attack on the border even after the EZIC Agent tells you to hold fire, your information audit leads to you being arrested and executed for working with EZIC. Before the execution EZIC manages to slip a note under your door condemning you for the betrayal.Ending 15: If you have done all the EZIC tasks, let them blow up the wall then shoot both the EZIC agents, EZIC still rises to power, but your betrayal sees you have no place in the new revolution and you are killed as an enemy of EZIC.Ending 16: If you flee to Obristan with confiscated passports and forged entry tickets, either alone or with some but not all family members, you will have escaped Arstotzka safely, but the fate of the your family members left behind is unknown.Ending 17: If you didn't help EZIC enough times, the Day 31 attack on the wall will also lead to an attack on your booth. If you kill the agents and don't escape to Obristan at the end of the day, the information audit will see you sentenced to death for betraying the Government. EZIC is destroyed, and the fate of your family is unknown.Ending 18: If you gather enough passports and money, the whole family escapes to Obristan.Ending 19: If you've done enough tasks for EZIC and let the EZIC agents blow up the border wall on Day 31, everyone waiting in line floods across the border. EZIC gains power, moves you and your family to better housing, and makes you one of their agents of the New Arstotzka.Ending 20: If you never co-operate with EZIC and successfully defend the wall from the EZIC agents, the audit is willing to overlook any citations against your record. EZIC is wiped out, and as a reward for saving Arstotzka you are permitted to continue your work at the border.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: Many first-time players would give the EZIC documents to the M.O.I. Inspector, as what most law-abiding people would do in real life. Unfortunately most law-abiding people nowadays don't live in a communist dictatorship with a corrupt, ultra-paranoid Secret Police. Doing so will get you investigated and arrested for a Non-Standard Game Over. (And unlock the "Too Honest" achievement.) Thus, in order to proceed, even if you're against EZIC, you have to keep the EZIC documents to yourself. The second time Jorji comes through the office, he has an obviously fake passport that looks like crayon and construction paper. Rather than any of the glaringly obvious problems that can be highlighted, the only one that works (aside from cross-referencing a lack of entry ticket or the passport itself with the "All entrants must have a passport" rule in the rulebook) is the name of the country he came from having a minor misspelling. Of course, most players don't bother highlighting anything at this point; they'll just stamp a denial, which works anyway. At one point you're tasked with assassinating the "Man in Red". Your best choice, even if you're siding with EZIC, is to ignore him. Shooting him not only gets you arrested (and executed, if you used the sniper rifle rather than the tranq rifle), but it ends up backfiring on EZIC because the replacement inspector isn't as cooperative. Ignoring the Man in Red just makes EZIC change their plans and they can still complete their takeover of Arstotzka. To earn the tokens, you have to follow certain requirements that can land you citations and tend to violate the guidelines. While some are simply cases of Videogame Caring Potential, others have you agree to the specific demands of certain entrants, such as following all of the instructions set by the Vengeful Fathernote admitting Simon Wens who is a wanted criminal, so that he can personally find and kill him or the collateral agreement of Danic Lorunnote admit him without complete documents, on the grounds that he'll come back with them later. Unlocking all of the endings will include making the player resort to outlandish actions story-related and otherwise, such as using the booth's weapons on innocents and guards. Certain endings require specific criteria and thus slight changes to what is instructed, from using the Tranquilizer on the Man in Red when EZIC specifically orders the lethal rounds, to helping EZIC until the final day and then attacking one or both of their two agents. The only reason why one would change their plans like this is if one is going for 100% Completion.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: Arstotzkan workers are expected to support large, healthy families. If you fail to do just that, you are fired and the game is over.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1bd4c0bf	type	Unwinnable by Design
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1bd4c0bf	comment	Unwinnable by Design: It's possible to arrive on the last day with no way to get any of the three good endings. Specifically, only help EZIC with 1-3 tasks (rather than 0, 4, or 5) and don't have enough money or Obri passports to bring your entire family to Obristan. At this point, assuming you don't get killed on duty, you'll be arrested for failing to defend the border, be executed for associating with EZIC, or escape with only part of your living family or by yourself. Fortunately the game saves for you every in-game day and you can go back to any previous day's save, but depending on which ending you want and how much money you have you may have to retry a large chunk of the game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1be7d298	type	Easy-Mode Mockery
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1be7d298	comment	Easy-Mode Mockery: If you turn on easy mode, the 20 credits bonus you receive each day is called "easy mode crutch".
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1c169242	type	The Order
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1c169242	comment	The Order: The Order of the EZIC Star. They claim to be an ancient order dedicated to restoring Arstotzka through clandestine dealings. Whether you believe them or not is up to you.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: An EZIC messenger asks you to kill the man in red, since they consider him dangerous, and they promise that your sacrifice ensures that Arstotzka will be saved. Shooting the man in red immediately ends the game, since you are punished for harming what appears to be an innocent person. It's then revealed that since the replacement inspector isn't cooperative, EZIC cannot continue their activities and must hibernate. If you do intend to get EZIC's best ending, you have to ignore the man in red; all it does is make EZIC adjust their plans a bit.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1dad7003	type	In the Hood
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: All of the EZIC messengers wear hoods that hide their faces, fitting for a conspiracy that aims to topple the government.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: How the attack on Day 2 ends. The assailant gets shot down by the lone guard after lobbing a bomb which kills said guard in the blast.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: If you buy crayons for your son's birthday, he will draw a picture for you, which you can hang on the wall. If you do this, then one entrant will ridicule it, to which you can respond by denying them entrance regardless of whether or not their paperwork is in order. At one point, a father asks you to help him avenge his murdered daughter. This guy apparently tracked her killer across four countries.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: It's implied that The Truth of Arstotzka (the paper that we can read) is one of these. Ultimately, it's remarkably closer to a free press in practice, with opinion pieces and headlines that are openly critical of the government policies.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The newspaper doesn't cost anything, so Arstotzka can claim to have a "free press". It actually is close to a free press in practice, with articles that are openly critical of the government policies.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: People can wait in line for hours to see you before being told that their entrance were denied because of missing required documents, missing polio vaccines, or expired documents.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: An Antegrian whistleblower exposes an Antegrian domestic espionage scandal.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20751e73	type	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20751e73	comment	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: A terrorist delivers a bomb to your booth and runs away before you can detain the terrorist. Fortunately, it is easy to disarm.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The player again, if you're feeling like a dick. The game is impressively good at wearing you down to this point - there are several videos of Letsplayers who at first apologize to every person they send away. Fast forward a few episodes and see them almost salivate at the thought of finding a discrepancy, simply because it lets them instantly deny the entrant rather than going down the rest of the long, long checklist. Theoretically, you may question entrants so they can explain discrepancies and gain entry if their explanation seems reasonable, but you're never punished for turning people away as soon as a discrepancy shows up, while questioning them takes precious seconds...
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20a14df0	comment	Many first-time players would give the EZIC documents to the M.O.I. Inspector, as what most law-abiding people would do in real life. Unfortunately most law-abiding people nowadays don't live in a communist dictatorship with a corrupt, ultra-paranoid Secret Police. Doing so will get you investigated and arrested for a Non-Standard Game Over. (And unlock the "Too Honest" achievement.) Thus, in order to proceed, even if you're against EZIC, you have to keep the EZIC documents to yourself.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: The Antegrian couple turn out to be Kolechian terrorists.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2195704b	type	Scripted Event
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2195704b	comment	You cannot stop Scripted Event terrorist attacks from happening. Try to deny the entrant that would be the terrorist, and the game will just deal out a never-ending queue of entrants with correct paperwork until you approve one of them. At which point the one you just approved turns out to be the terrorist and what few entrants you can process afterwards will be normal randomized entrants. This includes the terrorist that causes the M.O.A. to implement a "random" search of all Kolechian entrants. Similarly, don't bother holding up the line so that they have to leave at 6 PM; the game will just continue until you admit the entrant who's a terrorist.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Arstotzka is a nasty Ruritania in and of itself, but there are people immigrating to it to get away from worse countries. Antegria is a flat-out tyranny that spies on and kills its own citizens on a whim. Kolechia is considered ten times worse than Arstotzka by Sergiu, has a poor health care system, and is full of terrorists and drugs. Republia is a People's Republic of Tyranny. The United Federation has The Plague. Arstotzka, with all of its problems, has an excellent health care system, excellent scientists, a stable economy, and apparently a great transit system. The only countries which do not have anything pointing to general problems in this game are Impor and Obristan.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	In the iPhone and Android versions, you can attach actual wanted posters to the wall to make it easier for you to spot these criminals due to the compromises required to get this to fit on an iPhone's or Android's screen. Dmitri considers these authorized, and the criminals will always not notice their own wanted posters.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The pistol the Inspector brings with him. Too bad he didn't have a chance to use it... Elisa's locket. If the Inspector didn't have it on his desk as a reminder of what he did, he would've likely denied the Antegrian couple entry.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The player can, and in many cases probably should, take bribes to let people through the checkpoint. A few citations a day aren't exactly a danger to his position.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Glory to Arstotzka" is frequently used as a greeting among government officials and when welcoming citizens back to the country. However, in the bad endings, you're told of why you're losing your job (either for incompetence, insubordination, or associating with EZIC), your punishment, what will happen to your family, and how you're easily replaced. All of this is capped off with "Glory to Arstotzka."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_24d2177b	type	Bureaucracy Simulator
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_24d2177b	comment	Bureaucracy Simulator: Quite possibly the Trope Codifier, you play as a petty customs agent who has to check entry papers, getting penalized for overlooking minor details, and sometimes taking bribes to overlook them.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: While the game generally sticks faithfully to its 1980's Soviet Bloc setting, there are a few things unique to the game's fictional world: The HPV vaccine, which is sometimes listed on an entrantâ€™s vaccine certificate, wasnâ€™t available in real life until 2006. Full body scanners werenâ€™t invented until 1992, and werenâ€™t used for border security until 2007.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: Your neighbors will happily cough you up to the authorities if you accept EZIC's monetary gift; however, no one gives a damn should one of your family members pass away. For that matter, they will apparently not help if your family is any combination of cold, sick, or ill; Calensk's dialogue implies that other government employees' families are barely scraping by themselves. Think you deserve some sort of bereavement leave, or condolences? Neither your neighbors nor the government will care.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Jorji Costava shows up with a "Cobrastan" passport. It looks a lot more professional, but he's quickly taken away due to an obviously-forged identity supplement.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2854b56d	comment	If you have completed enough EZIC tasks to qualify for their good ending, you will be ordered to hold your fire on the final day. If, when the EZIC agents show up, you fire anyway, they will attack you as well. If you stop them from blowing up the border wall, you will get a bad ending where you're sentenced to death for your involvement with EZIC and an EZIC agent passes you a message telling you that EZIC will no longer provide support to your family. If you do let them blow up the border wall before opening fire, then although EZIC has toppled the Arstotzkan government, they will tell you that you have no place in the new Arstotzka (what this entails for you is not stated).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: You will eventually encounter entrants that feel much more entitled to how they should be treated when being reviewed for entry. Some are criminals that try to bribe you or think that their backgrounds and connections can get them out of punishment, others are overly self-confident in their charms, and some are just plain narcissists. More notable instances are the journalists that enter with nothing but their press passes. They refuse to follow the guidelines set for other entrants and believe their passes are enough. Regardless of whether your let them in or not, they'll leave with scathing remarks. The only differences are how they'll deliver them. One entrant refuses to leave the booth upon denial, holding up the line while threatening to "explode like [a] wild tiger" until they're let through. They get a rifle's butt to the head for their troubles.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: You are like this to Jorji. You are a stoic immigration inspector and start out by telling Jorji to never come back (since he keeps returning with faulty/no paperwork), but you eventually soften up to him, enough that you apologize for detaining him.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: At a certain point, Arstotzka gets a reputation for being a criminal haven, prompting a rule update that requires you to keep an eye out for the three most internationally wanted criminals of the day trying to cross your border. You are given a "Wanted!" Poster with their photos on it. On arriving at work and calling for the first person in line, they are always on the wanted list that you just started receiving. Handing over the two EZIC cards to M. Vonel, the Ministry of Information Secret Police, seems to be the right thing to do, but the inspector will get arrested and investigated for his connection with rebels, and you will unlock the "Too Honest" achievement. Jorji points out the Power Perversion Potential of the search scanner.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Upgrading to better apartments will get you reduced heating costs and eventually no heating bill at all. However this is swiftly negated by the fact that upgrades not only have a high one-time cost, but also higher rent; in fact, the very first upgrade, Class-7, has no reduction in heating cost while still charging you more than Class-8. Sure, it's great to have Class-5 housing (the best available) that has no heating cost, but Class-5 apartments cost 50 credits a day, as opposed to Class-8 where rent is 25 per day (20 in the first four days) and heat is 10 per day, meaning that it's just cheaper to stick to Class-8. The only practical reason to get to Class-5 is to unlock the "Worker's Best" achievement. It's also not strictly necessary to keep the heat on every day; you can spend on it every other day and your family will be fine, but you can't pay the rent on a Class-5 apartment only every other day.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The Kolechian terrorists blow up the inspection booth and kill the guards and possibly the Inspector.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2fef0c01	type	Twisted Christmas
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_2fef0c01	comment	Twisted Christmas: If you help EZIC at all but don't help them enough that they'll see you as an agent, and you don't escape to Obristan, then you'll be arrested and sentenced to death on Christmas Eve.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The player character may be part of a corrupt bureaucracy in a dystopian society, but the player doesn't need to be completely heartless in their work. A smuggler trying to bribe you can be told off as you detain him, and a man accused of sex trafficking can be denied or detained despite his paperwork being in order. The game has many choices like this: one can try to do the right thing, or one can focus on doing their job. When a certain terrorist attack occurs, one of the messengers from EZIC appears to inform you that they had nothing to do with it, making a point that they never harm the innocent, and even sends in an agent to investigate for you. Even the terrorists that attack the checkpoint and kill guards to further their political agenda will not attack the bystanders in the line with them, even when they're caught with weapons and about to arrested (instead of attempting some Taking You with Me attack).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9	type	Critical Staffing Shortage
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9	comment	Critical Staffing Shortage: On day 16, there is a newspaper article about the ministries' shortage of qualified guards. You're given access to a tranquilizer gun because many of the guards at the checkpoint have been moved away from the checkpoint.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_33fa230b	comment	Your first inclination when coming across a scripted immigrant (whether they comment on the dÃ©cor in your booth or give you something or whatever) is to assume that they always have their papers in order. Not so. With remarkably few exceptions (most notably the brothel workers), scripted immigrants can have their papers in order or not, just like everyone else. This will throw you for a loop the second time you play through.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_33fd5904	type	Demolitions Expert
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_33fd5904	comment	Demolitions Expert: Calensk is one. He tells you how to dispose of the bomb a terrorist left on your desk by cutting the wires in order. The trope is downplayed, however, because (in Calensk's words) the creator of the bomb was an amateur who even left numbers on the wires so the inspector easily knows which to cut, though his remark that it's the shittiest bomb he's ever seen implies that he's dealt with worse. He also knows what parts of the bomb are worth money and who to sell them to, implying at least basic knowledge in their construction.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Elisa arrives to the checkpoint on her 20th birthday, which may not be a coincidence, since the Kolechian authorities would not let her leave the country. If you turn her away or if Sergiu's dead, the trope applies. Your son's birthday takes place within the time window of the game. You can either be unable to buy him the expensive crayons he wants (due to insufficient funds), or refuse to do so. Or worse, he can possibly die on his birthday, if he's too ill.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_362461f6	comment	You can let the guy running the Sex Slave trafficking ring through.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_391aa30b	type	You ALL Look Familiar
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_391aa30b	comment	You ALL Look Familiar: All Generic Entrants are created through an algorithm which combines different facial parts that are drawn from a database of 16 preexisting faces.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: In the first 2/3 of the game, if you spot a discrepancy it's much faster, and therefore better for your salary, to immediately deny entry the moment you spot a discrepancy, rather than to go through the dramatic process of interrogating the entrant. And before Calensk establishes the Detain Bonus deal with you, denying is more efficient than detaining. This goes away on Day 18 when you have to start interrogating discrepancies before you can legally deny someone, as all denials going forward require a Reason for Denial stamp.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_39c10f1d	type	Yet Another Stupid Death
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_39c10f1d	comment	Yet Another Stupid Death: After getting further into the game and becoming more proficient, you will likely resolve to never allow something as easy and frequent as an expired passport or invalid issuing city to go past your eyes unnoticed. You will just as likely do it again at some point, after checking almost everything else.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: It's Exactly What It Says on the Tin in its subtitle in the Steam listing.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: Should an entrant that you're detaining refuse to step out of the booth as ordered, one of the guards will smack them with their rifle before hauling them off.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3ca55d2e	type	Protection Mission
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3ca55d2e	comment	Protection Mission: Sergiu is a guard who is stationed at the border for a few weeks of the story mode. He is very vulnerable, and his subplot will end if he is killed. If the player wants that nice 100-credit reward for keeping him alive and letting his girlfriend through, he needs to be kept safe from the various terrorists.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Dimitri. He insults the Inspector to his face if he got just one citation, demands that he do personal favours without pulling any strings to ensure he gets no citations while doing so, and doles out harsh punishments just for decorating the station. Pissing him off enough will also get you sent to the gulags.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: The poison that you receive from an EZIC messenger can be applied to a passport without leaving a trace on whatever it was stuck to. Upon contact, it kills within seconds, and unless you killed Khaled Istom with it, apparently, no one has any idea you had anything to do with the poison.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3e463af8	type	Prison Escape Artist
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3e463af8	comment	Prison Escape Artist: Jorji Costava escapes jail three times.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Terrorist motorcycles explode and kill anyone caught in the radius when fired upon with a single bullet. Yes, even if that bullet was a tranquilizer dart.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The western journalists who show up with press passes instead of proper paperwork and expect to be let in to expose your country's corruption. If you let them through, they write scathingly about how incompetent the border control is.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: After enough visits from Jorji, you address him by first name, something you don't do for anybody else. You also find out the divisional authority of East Grestin's name because Shae Piersovska refers to him as Dimitri.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_407d3e6d	comment	You can't stop the first journalist from smear-campaigning Arstotzka's border controls whether you approve or deny them, causing the Reason for Denial stamp to be required going forward.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Certain discrepancies, such as the weight of the applicant not matching up with the weight given on their papers or their being from an area flagged for special security measures, require the player to strip search said applicant. The reason given is that "You have been selected for a random search." This does not apply when the strip search is triggered due to an apparent sex discrepancy, in which the inspector will instead ask if the entrant is a man or a woman. The same "random" search is applied to Kolechians following a string of terrorist attacks, which backfires spectacularly since it becomes apparent that only and all Kolechian entrants are being strip-searched. When you question immigrants on certain discrepancies, they may try to avoid the subject or answer unhelpfully... or just outright lie. One example of an excuse for a passport picture of the entirely wrong person is "The years have been cruel." As of the update introducing fingerprint identification, this may actually prove to be a subversion if it really is them. Sometimes foreigners (who, after day 3, need a document explaining purpose of trip and duration of stay) will give you answers that don't match up with the document. One possible lie is "In transit until I die." They will always correct themselves if you call them out on it. Jorji's first passport states that it's issued by "Cobrastan." Either you can helpfully point out the lie, or the citation will point it out for you, to you.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: One ending has you flee to Obristan alone, with the rest of your family returning to their home village and left to Uncertain Doom. There is a variation of this ending where you escape with only some of your family members, leaving the rest. Escaping along with all of your living family constitutes one of the game's three good endings, averting this tropenote strangely, having a full living family and taking only one of them still invokes this trope, but if all but one of your family is dead and you take that last family member with you, you get the best variant of the escape ending with the good ending music and all.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: As expected, Jorji shows up with forged documentation. The passport itself looks a lot better, but his identity supplement looks worse.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_41d0e801	type	Endless Game
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_41d0e801	comment	Endless Game: Unlocked when you get ending 20, or input a numeric code. There are also different modes and modifiers within this mode, including one where you cannot make a single mistake.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Not counting the various endings where you are killed or jailed for life, there are effectively three possible "final" outcomes in the game: EZIC brings down the wall and rises to power with you becoming an agent of theirs, EZIC is foiled and a deal is reached with Kolechia with you remaining a loyal inspector, or you and some or all of your family escape to Obristan. It's left completely ambiguous whether any of these are good or bad endings, or which are better outcomes than the others.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Players can decide to violate protocol and let people in anyway despite papers that don't add up or exist. Doesn't stop the player from getting infractions from the state, but oddly enough their good deeds themselves aren't overturned. These actions usually get you Tokens, which are connected to Achievements. If you get Ending 20, the ending where you prove loyal to Arstotzka, M. Vonel states that he's willing to overlook these errors and allows you to continue your job, since the important part is that you refused to help out the anti-government resistance group EZIC.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Due to the artistic style, it can be difficult at times to determine the gender of an individual just by looking. However, if you check for discrepancies, you will be able to determine their gender... usually. Sometimes, the game acknowledges the fact that an individual looks much like the opposite gender and lets you classify it as a discrepancy. This triggers a strip search scan that can either clear the discrepancy or incriminate the entrant enough to merit detainment. It doesn't help that some of them have names generally associated with the opposite gender as well.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4593fcda	type	Big Brother Is Employing You
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4593fcda	comment	Big Brother Is Employing You: You are a Border Inspector for an oppressive Communist government, so naturally this trope applies.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Simon Wens is a serial child killer.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: The Inspector and Sergiu are (probably) killed at the end of the movie.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_48da1453	type	Gender Reveal
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_48da1453	comment	Gender Reveal: Some travelers' looks will not match their passport's stated biological sex. Searching them could lead to definite "Oh..." moments, or result in the player ordering the arrest of a crook.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_49a11c69	type	Commissar Cap
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_49a11c69	comment	Commissar Cap: M. Vonel wears one as part of being a Special Investigator.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4a10e526	type	You Have Researched Breathing
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4a10e526	comment	You Have Researched Breathing: One of the upgrades you can only get by buying are tabs for the rulebook, even though the Inspector could just as easily have made them himself anytime. In the iPad version, you have to purchase a booth upgrade to use multitouch. In other words, you have to spend 10 credits just to use both hands.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	comment	If you point out to Shae that her diplomatic authorization doesn't include Arstotzka, the Detain button will appear and she warns you that you shouldn't press it. If you don't heed her advice, the next day Dimitri has you arrested on false charges. That said, merely denying her only gets you a scolding from Dimitri with no actual consequence.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: The scanner allows you to see under people's clothes. The options menu allows you to turn nudity on and off. Jorji lampshades this trope when you use the scanner on him.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: It's heavily implied that the Inspector and Sergiu were killed by the Kolechian terrorist.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Two drug smugglers try to bribe the player with 10 credits, which is more than the credits that the player will get for correctly processing them by detaining them. Players can choose to detain them anyways.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When the Inspector sorts through the documentation of various immigrants, Elisa's name shows up at the end of one.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4ef62a4d	comment	EZIC and the Arstotzkan government are not very different. The Arstotzkan government is a corrupt totalitarian bureaucracy, but it is willing to cede parts of East Grestin to Kolechia in order to secure peace with Kolechia according to the day 27 EZIC note and is the player character's best chance of keeping a stable job and providing a better life for his family. EZIC wants to topple the current corrupt regime and is willing to grant the inspector's family a much better life than what Arstotzka offers, but it does not want Arstotzka to cede any part of East Grestin to Kolechia according to the day 27 EZIC note. If you help them topple the government, it's not clear from the ending whether that's for the better or if New Arstotzka will just turn out the same way as Arstotzka.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: Potentially Jorji, who's certainly in the right business to be smuggling drugs and other things. Such as forged paperwork and smuggling people, if needed, to other countries.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: None of the factions are really that different from each other in terms of immigration policy and treatment of its own citizens. This is highlighted by the similar Catch Phrases like "Glory to Arstotzka" and "Obristan Above All."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4fc1a6c7	type	No Points for Neutrality
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_4fc1a6c7	comment	No Points for Neutrality: If you decide to help EZIC, you better do enough of their tasks because completing at least one makes you a traitor to Arstotzka, but not completing the required four won't get you on EZIC's side. If you take this route, you better have a way to escape the country.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5049f19d	type	Do Well, But Not Perfect
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5049f19d	comment	Do Well, But Not Perfect: Two of the good endings require you to do things that will result in citations that can otherwise be avoided (the one with Jorji on Day 29 is unavoidable), while still making sure you don't run into any of the bad endings (including Game Over conditions like debt or a dead family). It's still possible to complete the game without monetary penalties since the first two citations of the day don't come with penalties, but because of these tasks, you will have to play the rest of the day perfectly: Ending 18: You have to steal passports from up to five other Obris, which will get you citations since you are only supposed to confiscate Arstotzkan passports. Note that you can only start stealing passports for this ending on the third-to-last day, meaning that if you're trying to accomodate a full family of six, you'll be stealing two Obristan passports per day (including Jorji's on Day 29), so no room for error on these last three days if you are trying to avoid penalties. Ending 19: You have to let multiple EZIC agents into the country, even though their papers are not correct. You also have to confiscate Kordon Kallo's Kolechian passport for a citation and then give it to an impersonator. It's actually completely impossible to finish the game without any citations. Jorji will force you to confiscate his passport on Day 29, which gets you a citation. When M. Vonel comes to question you about EZIC and shows you their symbol, it's right next to the documents you received earlier in the week from them. The immediate inclination, if you're not helping EZIC, is to hand those documents to M. Vonel. This is a bad idea.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: You can't refuse to cooperate with Corman Drex; if you don't give them the piece of paper with their name on it the first time they come through, they'll arrive and demand it later, and you won't be able to just detain them. As would be expected, this unpreventable action will not get you in any kind of trouble. On day 6 and day 12, scripted suicide bombers pass through the checkpoint and kill the guards. There is no way to avoid this: if you've memorized which entrants they are (both are the ninth on their respective days), the day will continue until they come along, so you can't just hold the line at the eighth entrants. Since they have their paperwork in order, you can't deny them without a citation, and all following entrants also carry explosives, so denying them is pointless. No matter what you do, those bombers will be allowed entry. When the option of fleeing to Obristan using forged passports comes into play, Jorji forces you to confiscate his passport; you cannot prevent this, nor can you return it to him after the fact. Unlike the above example, you still get a citation for this. This is the only unavoidable citation in the entire game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: The Inspector lets in a married couple, the wife of which doesn't have her name correctly spelled. The couple then carries out a terrorist attack.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Later in the game, you can detain people for having inconsistent paperwork whose inconsistencies cannot be overridden or cleared by stronger evidence like fingerprints, identity records, and searches, and are not expired paperwork. However, these inconsistencies in the paperwork could point to something much more sinister. You are not paid to take chances. Your boss sentences you to forced labour for "disobeying a direct order" if you are caught hanging anything but official plaques on the wall for a second time. You will also be sentenced to forced labour if you detain his "friend" Shae, who is attempting to enter the country with an invalid diplomatic authorization. The Arstotzkan government will rely on punishment for association, partly to prove a point, with the main recipient of these punishments being the citizens of other nations. Impor applying trade sanctions on them is given a response in the form of denying every person from Impor entry into the nation. Due to constant Kolechian-supported terrorist attacks, being a Kolechian entrant is enough to be selected for a random search. The polio outbreak in the United Federation prompts automatic denial, until vaccinations and medical papers are added.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_52475ffd	type	Cutting Off the Branches
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_52475ffd	comment	Cutting Off the Branches: The film chooses to go with elements that are optional in the game: Elisa is denied and turned away. The Inspector detains Jorji at least once. Both of the Antegrian couple are approved and allowed to go through. Sergiu is killed in a terrorist attack.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: The border guards never get any characterization beyond having terrible aim. Sergiu serves to give them a face and remind the player that even foot soldiers of an oppressive regime are still people.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: What counts as evil is up for debate in a story so heavily mired in Grey-and-Gray Morality, but in the sense that he's a criminal (and likely would be considered "evil" in any normal story), Jorji is definitely this. Sure, he's a drug dealer, a smuggler, and possibly a black market mastermind, but he's also the friendliest, most polite, and most cheerful person you'll ever meet. The Inspector can also be this, if you play him correctly.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Whenever you ask someone what their sex is, you'll either be met with confusion or one of these. Not a single person ever seems to just give you a straight answer.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_54d5074	type	Speaking Simlish
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_54d5074	comment	Speaking Simlish: The spoken words in the game are filtered samples of nonsense words typed into the Mac "say" command. The phrase the Inspector says when an immigrant enters the booth ("ehua?") sounds a lot like a request for "Papers." The sound byte often heard from immigrants ("ihe") sounds like "I have them," which makes sense with the above, even though sometimes the immigrant in question doesn't have their papers. The sound that the guard makes after an immigrant is detained ("gish-tot") sounds an awful lot like "Get out," demanding that they surrender and leave the booth. The remaining two phrases have accompanying dialogue, but don't really match the words. So "haouaeay" can mean "Next," "Arstotzka welcomes you," "Have your papers ready," "Entry is not guaranteed," and "Come back at 6AM tomorrow," while "lekrafezuh!" means "For Kolechia!" and is said by the Kolechian suicide bomber before detonating the bomb.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c	type	Not Completely Useless
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c	comment	Not Completely Useless: Normally upgrading to a higher-class apartment is pointless at best but detrimental at worst, as the cheaper heating is more than negated by more expensive rent and a high one-time movement cost. The one benefit of it is to be able to keep some of EZIC's bribe, which will eventually be confiscated (along with all your legitimately earned savings) if you keep it: moving to a higher-class apartment, losing your cash, and then moving back to the good old Class 8 will get you back some of the money.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The Arstotzkan guards. Almost all of the time, they have terrible aim, and the week cannot go by without at least one of them dying. Once you have access to a rifle, you can potentially save two of them when an attack happens (though saving Sergiu is the only one that matters to the in-game story). Somehow, an Arstotzkan border inspector has better aim than the men who are trained to shoot on sight. Sergiu will even lampshade his bad aim if you save him once. Consequently, if you used the poison EZIC provided, you can get one guard killed. If you've been supportive of EZIC 100%, those guards killed at the end are necessary targets.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_55c1f305	type	Multiple Identity IDs
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_55c1f305	comment	Multiple Identity IDs: One entrant will accidentally give you two passports with identical photos, but different names, nations and ID numbers. Your detain button pops up immediately. Several other entrants will have one name on their passport and a different name on their supporting documentation; they will claim I Have Many Names, requiring you to do a fingerprint check against the person's identity record which includes any known aliases. This either explains the alias or builds an airtight case of identity fraud which gives you the option to arrest the entrant.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: Defusing a bomb that gets planted in the booth during a scripted event requires cutting a set of wires in a numerical sequence listed on the outer casing of the bomb. This obvious design flaw is lampshaded by the nearby guard.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: You can actually cut the knot this way when terrorists on motorcycles attack the checkpoint by shooting the tires out instead of sniping each person individually.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Sometimes, you'll come across immigrants who have apparently traveled across the continent not only without a passport on hand, but without knowing what a passport even is.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire: When you have the option to detain one of the world's three most wanted criminals, sometimes he or she will tell you to let him or her through "or you'll regret it." Unfortunately, the criminal will regret it if Calensk and another armed guard come to take them away.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: When detaining a man who offers a bribe, you say the line: "You cannot bribe an Arstotzkan Officer." The Kolechian spy who is disguised as someone from the Ministry of Information gives the player a bribe that cannot be refused. The player can still give the spy counterfeit documents, which will lead to Kolechia accusing the wrong people of being Arstotzkan spies. EZIC will attempt to buy your cooperation (or pay you for cooperating) by offering you a package of 1,000 credits. You have the option to burn it. This is actually the best thing to do, even if you do intend to cooperate with them, because the massive cash influx will cause internal affairs to audit you. This seems to have happened with Jorji â€” when he comes to you while he's in the wanted bulletin, he is aghast if you point it out. A man called Danic Lorum will show up with incorrect documents and promise to come back at a later date with the correct ones if you're willing to turn a blind eye, and hands over a watch as collateral. When he does return, he will hand you a bribe before getting anything back. You can elect to keep the watch, to which he will become indignant, then arrest him for causing a scene, keeping the watch, the money, and possibly a kickback from Calensk's bonus for detainment. Strangely, "bribes" include a guard agreeing on giving you a cut of his bonus for every immigrant/citizen you detain (and there is almost always a good reason to do so), and for whatever favors you do for others (such as selling a watch, or receiving money after you approve an immigrant who gives you money for being so kind).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: In the game, admitting the Antegrian couple simply gets you a citation for invalid paperwork; at worst you lose five credits if you've already had two prior citations for the day. In the film, doing so ends up being a fatal mistake, as the couple are actually terrorists. The decision of whether to approve Elisa's entry or not is made complicated by a telegram from the Inspector's unseen supervisor warning him that Arstotzka has reached its daily limit of Kolechian entrants, which never happens in-game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Whereas the original game takes place over the course of 31 in-game days and can take a few real-time hours to complete, the film only covers one day in-universe and is only 10 minutes long, boiling down to the essential elements like the mental process of verifying documents and quickly displaying passports of the seven countries, as well as featuring brief appearances from key characters like Sergiu, Jorji, and Elisa.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Over time, the Inspector becomes a lot more friendly towards Jorji Costava, to the point where (if you screw up and offend both the government and the rebels) he can save you and your family in one of the endings.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: If you approve entry for Elisa and allow her to reunite with Sergiu, the two of them will run towards each other, embrace, and walk towards Sergiu's post. After another hug, Elisa walks away. All that happens while you're still processing more entrants.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5b8cd10f	type	Badge Gag
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5b8cd10f	comment	Badge Gag: Jorji Costava repeatedly attempts to finesse his way through the checkpoint making no effort to pretend his documents aren't fake, on one occasion presenting a passport from "Cobrastan" (a country that doesn't exist In-Universe) that is crudely drawn with crayon.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5c385fe1	type	Profiling
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5c385fe1	comment	Profiling: Arstotzka assigns an entrant's nation of origin as enough criteria for certain actions at a few points. For one day, Kolechians must always be scanned, and during another, those from the United Federations are immediately denied until vaccination papers are introduced.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f	type	Save Scumming
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f	comment	Save Scumming: The very first day, being a tutorial, has the most lenient rules regarding who can pass through — Arstotzkans versus non-Arstotzkans. As such, you can replay the day over and over for the most amount of processes in order to build up a buffer in your savings, with numbers greater than 20 possible with enough practice. If you get an unsatisfactory income or a bad ending on a given day, all you need to do is replay that day from the continue screen. This is intentional, as part of the Anti-Frustration Features.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Antegria is spying on its own citizens, and therefore a whistleblower exposes this.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	comment	Badass Bureaucrat: Your job is to check people's papers... until you're issued a tranquilizer gun and tasked with securing the border should issues arise. This trope comes in handy with all the weird events that go on during this month.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5e85d617	type	Empty Levels
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5e85d617	comment	Empty Levels: Upgrading to a Class-7 apartment (from Class-8, the lowest class) has absolutely no benefit whatsoever, keeping the cost of heating the same while charging you an extra 5 credits per day. But you need to upgrade to Class-7 first in order to get to Class-6, which cuts the heating costs in half.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5edb884e	type	Face of a Thug
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5edb884e	comment	Face of a Thug: Sometimes you see an entrant whose face looks very much like one of the world's three most wanted criminals, but is not one of them. Usually, the entrant in such cases has some apparent problem with the documents that could be corrected, be overridden, be shown not to be a problem with additional information, result in a denial, or result in some other reason to arrest the entrant. Occasionally, the entrant has perfectly fine papers and looks like a wanted criminal but the inspection mode shows that the entrant and the wanted criminal are two different people.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5f4097ba	comment	Some are criminals that try to bribe you or think that their backgrounds and connections can get them out of punishment, others are overly self-confident in their charms, and some are just plain narcissists.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': The MOA can only do one thing right, and that's to send you a citation when you violate protocol. Subverted in the ending. M. Vonel will find out about any cooperation with EZIC, but he's only looking for treason in his audit. He'll let petty corruption by an otherwise-good Inspector slide.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4	type	Time Bomb
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4	comment	Time Bomb: If you fail to defuse the bomb dropped on your desk in a limited amount of time, it blows you and Calensk up.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Given that you're good at identifying weight discrepancies, the introduction of the body scanner can foil subsequent suicide-bombing attempts.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_60194b82	featureConfidence	1.0
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: Some people entering Arstotzka are here to escape their country, and their reasons vary from getting a surgery only Arstotzkan doctors can perform to trying to reunite with family across the border before the checkpoint closes.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: Arstotzka, with all of the "lovely features" of a 1980s Soviet Bloc country â€” job lottery, daily rule changes, smugglers, terrorists, etc. Ironically, this falls into Artistic License - Bureaucracy: especially in an eastern bloc state, where seemingly menial bureaucratic positions can take years of formalized training (or cynically, nepotism), both the opposite of a "job lottery", but it fits with the western imagination of how such countries work.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6267a414	type	Stamp of Rejection
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6267a414	comment	Stamp of Rejection: The entire game is about stamping approvals or rejections on passports.
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6267a414	featureApplicability	1.0
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6267a414	featureConfidence	1.0
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When the Inspector receives Jorji's documentation, you can pause the video while he looks through them. It has the same information Jorji wrote on his crayon passport.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Your first interaction with Jorji has him trying to convince the inspector that he is perfectly allowed to waltz into Arstotzka without any papers whatsoever. He then tries it again later with a blatantly forged passport that a 4-year-old could make.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Related to Gender Reveal, you might encounter some people whose paperwork labels them as male despite looking very feminine...until you do a search and see they have a masculine body underneath that pretty face.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_63fac3d4	type	Obviously Fake Signature
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_63fac3d4	comment	Obviously Fake Signature: Your first encounter with Jorji Costava has him present his infamously bad fake passport. Even in the low resolution style of the game, it looks like it was made with crayons. It's also for "Cobrastan", a country that doesn't existnote Jorji is from Obristan, which is probably what he meant and somehow failed to write. Jorji tries to claim that the equally bad "pre-approved" stamp means that you don't have to bother examining it, even though no such "pre-approval" exists within Arstotskan border security.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: An EZIC messenger will task you with killing a man in red (clearly visible in the queue), promising that your sacrifice ensures that Arstotzka will be saved, and your family will be protected. Unfortunately, this leads to a Downer Ending, in which while they were able to relocate your family to a safer nation, they're unable to operate in Arstotzka because the new inspector isn't cooperating, dooming them to hibernate. Whether or not you wanted to help them, this makes the sacrifice pointless...
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6439de78	featureApplicability	1.0
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6451e544	type	Commie Nazis
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6451e544	comment	Commie Nazis: Arstotzka is stylistically Communist and bears certain features of a Communist country (such as the labor lottery), but the obsession with supporting large families, zero tolerance for government workers being in debt, and insanely strict border control all are distinctly reminiscent of Fascism as well. Inspector M. Vonel's black uniform with the cap also highly resembles a Nazi officer uniform.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: Once entrants start requiring multiple forms of identification, it becomes painfully clear that your tiny desk doesn't have enough room to accommodate all the documents in any sensible manner. Along with possible citations, the daily bulletin, the guidebook and audio transcript you'll need to cross-reference, and the other odds and ends various entrants may leave at your desk, you'll inevitably find yourself shuffling things about in an awkward clutter.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Gain a few kilograms since that ID card was created? Did you get married and have a new name? Was that just a bad picture day for you and the photo doesn't quite match up? Does your face look like it belongs to someone of a different biological sex than what is on the passport? All of this is grounds enough for the Arstotzkan Ministry of Admission Inspector (the player character) to throw you out. If he's feeling merciful or malicious enough, he might just ask for your fingerprints or strip search you in order to either clear the discrepancy to allow you in, or to find enough evidence to call the guards to arrest you. A second offense of having non-approved decorations on the wall of your booth is enough to get you sentenced to forced labor. Although once you realize that the game portrays the frequently absurd internal logic systems of totalitarian governments quite authentically noteif you are old enough to have spent at least a few conscious years, say the late childhood, in the Eastern Bloc, for instance, preferably before the Perestroika, or if you happen to have older relatives who did and if you try to follow that logic, it makes sense: the serious offense is not so much the trivial matter of non-approved decoration (unless it were subversive, that'd be serious by itself), but the fact that you defied a direct order, any order - totalitarian governments are big on absolutes. If you defy a trivial order like this, chances are you'll defy another order in a more serious situation, and that is a quality intolerable in a state employee and thus a part of the system.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6bc499da	type	Diplomatic Impunity
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6bc499da	comment	Diplomatic Impunity: Occasionally, an ambassador is on the world's most wanted list. You are supposed to arrest the ambassador in this case, averting this trope.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6c3553cd	type	Repressive, but Efficient
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6c3553cd	comment	Repressive, but Efficient: Your bosses have a fairly close eye on you, at least. Your bosses will discover your errors and cite you for them. Furthermore, if you've done anything for EZIC, Vonel will find out in the end. With that said, they don't really care about petty corruption so long as you keep it "petty" and otherwise do a good job.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6ca2ae39	type	Mercy Rewarded
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6ca2ae39	comment	There's a man and woman on day 5 who appear to be husband and wife saying they're fleeing Antegria because it is an oppressive regime and will put them to death if they don't get over the border. The husband's papers are always in good order, and he goes first, but the wife's papers are never right, but you can allow her entry to spare her (assuming you haven't made any mistakes that day, she can be let through without consequence; she even awards you with her country's token). The newspaper will report on day 11 that a whistleblower has exposed Antegrian domestic espionage, which suggests that the couple was telling the truth.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Many characters speak in very stilted English. According to Lucas Pope, this is intentional to give the dialogue an Eastern European feel.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: One of the names for a female entrant is "Anne Nahnumus." Another female entrant goes by the name of "Jaqueline Hyde."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: It won't occur to some people to highlight the newspaper article when the murderer from Republia appears. In the event where a woman asks you for help with a man she's afraid will make her a Sex Slave, when the player encounters him the first action to come to mind is to deny him entry. This simply leads to the same outcome if the player accepts him, and costs the player a fine. The correct action to do is inspecting the note the woman gives the player and the man's name on his passport or ID card, and then pressing the "Detain" button. Alternatively, the player can just give the note to the man to enable the "Detain" button. An EZIC messenger informs the player character about an assassin and provides him with some white powder in a card. It instructs him to press down on it. The correct way of applying it is to click the bottom of the powder case while it's over the passport to apply it. Just don't click the powder itself. Probably justified by the fact you're handling Anthrax or some other highly sensitive substance...
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6edb0066	type	Zero-Effort Boss
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6edb0066	comment	Zero-Effort Boss: The EZIC attack on the final day is ridiculously easy to thwart with a couple of easy shots because the terrorists are very slow. Since there are multiple endings depending on if you shoot them and when, this is likely intentional to give you time to consider what to do. One of the scripted entrants presents two passports by mistake. The Detain button immediately appears.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6fa1e7a2	type	Noob Bridge
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_6fa1e7a2	comment	Noob Bridge: New players who don't bother to read the bulletins may get stuck when Jorji enters with no paperwork at all. The player is supposed to go into inspection mode and highlight the passport rule and the empty counter.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: If you did not help EZIC once throughout the course of Story mode, then the game will end with you passing your audit and continuing your job as a border inspector, represented by the game giving you the code to unlock Endless mode.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7228d0cb	type	Game Over
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7228d0cb	comment	Once you gain access to the tranquilizer rifle, using it to shoot an innocent civilian will result in you being arrested and sentenced to forced labor. Later you get access to a lethal sniper rifle, and using it to kill an innocent will result in the death penalty. You will also be sentenced to death if you use either weapon on one of the border guards. Functionally, forced labor and the death penalty are the same thing, although they count as separate (bad) endings.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The man in red who appears on day 23 reportedly has so much intel on EZIC that the organization outright instructs you to risk execution by outright killing him because they consider him to be just that much of a threat to their cause. The trope is ultimately subverted. Not only is the man in red not dangerous enough to warrant such extreme measures (which another agent clues you in on a few days prior), but doing what EZIC wants actually backfires on them when an inspector who's not nearly as cooperative replaces you and forces them to halt their plans entirely.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: You can try to let in people with sob stories and improper paperwork, but the citations for not doing your job will catch up with you, get your pay docked, and leave your family in dire straits. You can get two citations per day without having your pay docked, so as long as you don't make any actual mistakes, you can make it work.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: The checkpoint has pathetic amounts of physical security at first, having a wall so low that intruders can simply leap over it. There is also only one guard initially who literally cannot aim to save his life. As time goes on, eventually the government responds to the terrorist attacks with heightened security measures. The player can even gain access to a tranquilizer gun and sniper rifle to stop attackers.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72dd7026	type	What the Hell, Player?
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_72dd7026	comment	What the Hell, Player?: You will receive a printed citation every time you make a wrong call, and your superior officer may make a comment alluding to this depending on your performance. Some immigrants and citizens will also pull this on you, mostly if it's an immoral choice (which at least saves you from earning a citation). Although if you fall through in your word to certain people, this can be justified. You can give Simon Wens the photo of his victim. He runs far, far away, and the man who wanted to kill him will not be happy. Work with the EZIC group, and shoot the guys the messenger told you not to shoot? They will be suitably mad at you and will have you killed for your betrayal. Some of the endings are earned with you blatantly betraying both EZIC and the Arstotzkan government in one go, predictably leading you to forced labour or death. If you detain the owner of the watch and the owner of the Arskickers pennant without returning the items, they will call you out. On day 25, Sergiu will ask you to approve entry for a woman he met in Kolechia. The next day, she arrives with only her passport, saying that Sergiu's the only person she has and that the authorities wouldn't let her leave for a long time. If you deny her and Sergiu survives the day, you tell him that Elisa should come back with the proper paperwork, to which he responds, "You know this is impossible." Near the end of the game, Jorji eventually offers the player an option of escaping the audit by moving to Obristan, and if the player lets him in, he'll force his passport onto the player before proceeding. The player can opt to confiscate his passport before approval, and Jorji calls the player out on it for a bit. Jorji will also call you out if you deny him on Day 11, when he (for once) shows up with proper paperwork; notably, this is the one time he loses his temper - he takes every other rejection in good humor. Your boss Dmitri will call you out if you deny his girlfriend entry but don't detain her, but his jerkassery lessens the impact somewhat. It's far more pleasant than outright detaining Shae, as doing so results in an arrest the next day.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Simon Wens is a serial child killer.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: There are virtually no "right" or "wrong" choices in this game. Over the course of the game, you'll have to make ethical dilemmas whether or not you should sympathize with the entrant or obey the rules. For example, after an Antegrian man has his credentials and papers passed and allowed entry to the country (which his credentials are always correct), his wife will appear as well, but will always lack an entry permit. Allowing her in will net you a citation, but you will receive a token and a achievement for this. EZIC and the Arstotzkan government are not very different. The Arstotzkan government is a corrupt totalitarian bureaucracy, but it is willing to cede parts of East Grestin to Kolechia in order to secure peace with Kolechia according to the day 27 EZIC note and is the player character's best chance of keeping a stable job and providing a better life for his family. EZIC wants to topple the current corrupt regime and is willing to grant the inspector's family a much better life than what Arstotzka offers, but it does not want Arstotzka to cede any part of East Grestin to Kolechia according to the day 27 EZIC note. If you help them topple the government, it's not clear from the ending whether that's for the better or if New Arstotzka will just turn out the same way as Arstotzka. Some of the morally gray decisions are helpfully given an answer in the form of a token given for selecting what is usually the "morally right" answer. The appeal and Aesop of the game is that it challenges your morality and teaches you that there is a difference between "legally right" and "morally right."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Each country uses different colours for its passports: Arstotzka is green-grey, Kolechia is purple, Obristan is bright red (as is "Cobrastan"), Antegria is green, Republia is brown, Impor is dark red, and the United Federation is royal blue.note In the real world passports only come in four colours: red, blue, green, and black. There is a brass key for using a tranq gun, and a silver one for a sniper rifle. The outlines of people outside your booth are colour-coded: entrants and civilians are black, guards are blue except for Sergiu, who is green, and the man in red is, well, red.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: You play as the simple and lowly border inspector of a checkpoint for immigration. You are also expected to analyze all of the complex paperwork with efficiency, detain criminals and other suspicious characters upon detection, and defend the area from terrorists attacks with your Tranquilizer gun. The Inspector can potentially have much better aim and skill in subduing threats than the guards that were assigned to do so.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: If someone doesn't leave your booth voluntarily, the guards will deal with them by bashing them unconscious with the butt of a rifle and carrying them away.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Glory to Arstotzka." "For Arstotzka and the Order."note After helping EZIC. "Cause no trouble."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_76c72a08	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_76c72a08	comment	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun: If you try to delay a scripted terrorist attack from an entrant by denying them entry (scripted terrorist entrants at your booth always have correct papers, so this will lead to a citation), all of the subsequent entrants will inexplicably have correct papers and the next one you approve will be the terrorist, ensuring that continuing to delay the attack will just get you an unending stream of citations. Once you admit a terrorist in, the rest of the entrants are back to being non-terrorists who may or may not have correct papers, or at least what few you can process before the shutters close in response to the assault.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_77bc8a56	type	Unable to Support a Wife
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_77bc8a56	comment	Unable to Support a Wife: You are already married and with a family and must earn enough money to support them. Arstotzkan workers are expected to support large, healthy families. If your entire family dies, you'll be fired from your job.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	type	100% Completion
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	comment	Unlocking all of the endings will include making the player resort to outlandish actions story-related and otherwise, such as using the booth's weapons on innocents and guards. Certain endings require specific criteria and thus slight changes to what is instructed, from using the Tranquilizer on the Man in Red when EZIC specifically orders the lethal rounds, to helping EZIC until the final day and then attacking one or both of their two agents. The only reason why one would change their plans like this is if one is going for 100% Completion.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Implied of Sergiu and possibly the other border guards, who served in a previous war in Kolechia. Sergiu even lampshades how his aim is not what it used to be and how he wishes to be done with the whole soldier business.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The United Federation is implied to be such, with its blue passport, eagle diplomatic seal, and computerized border control. Although given its position on the map and border shape, it might actually be closer to Socialist Yugoslavia, which was a Federation with early access to computers as well (Yugoslav leader Tito was non aligned and thus had access to western goods). It also explains the polio outbreak there, as it draws inspiration from a Real Life smallpox outbreak which hit Yugoslavia in 1972 (the last in Europe, less than a decade before global eradication).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	comment	Sinister Surveillance: Think you can get away with an easy-to-slip mistake? The citation machine would beg to differ.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: All of the EZIC messengers (whom you can tell are different people because their weight varies) have their faces concealed in shadow, save for their nose and the EZIC symbol where their left eye would be.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7adf5414	type	TranquilizerDart
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7adf5414	comment	Tranquilizer Dart: The player gets access to a tranquilizer gun when budget cuts forces the job of guarding the border to the inspector.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7bfa91bf	type	Failure Gambit
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7bfa91bf	comment	Failure Gambit: One scripted encounter has an immigrant despite having correct paperwork, will attempt to bribe you to red-stamp him and bar him entry. He's being sent to Arstotzka for a job, but has a better-paying one elsewhere and needs a legit reason to come back home.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: As expected, a lot of the entrants you deny or detain are not pleased about it, but one scripted entrant on Day 10 will refuse to leave of their own accord if you deny them, causing the Detain button to appear. Even after you press it, they demand to be let through, threatening to "explode like wild tiger", and it takes a guard smacking them with the butt of their rifle and hauling them out to remove them so that you can call the next entrant.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: The rules of Grestin border checkpoint change in the matter of days, as the gameplay becomes a lot more difficult toward the player. Aside from making your life harder, this significantly affects some entrants who do not adapt to sudden changes, rendering their paperwork invalid.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: Starting on day 13, foreigners will have to carry an ID supplement, which describes their appearance. Some of them simply say that the entrant doesn't wear glasses or has short hair or something equally non-descriptive. This description still manages to expose many Stupid Crooks and causes several false positives that must be overridden by matching fingerprints.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7eb73553	comment	If you get some artwork from your child and hang it up at your work station, one scripted entrant will insult it. If you deny or detain them for any reason, they think it's because they offended you and proclaim that such art should be in a museum.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7ed25068	type	Video Game Caring Potential
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7ed25068	comment	To earn the tokens, you have to follow certain requirements that can land you citations and tend to violate the guidelines. While some are simply cases of Videogame Caring Potential, others have you agree to the specific demands of certain entrants, such as following all of the instructions set by the Vengeful Fathernote admitting Simon Wens who is a wanted criminal, so that he can personally find and kill him or the collateral agreement of Danic Lorunnote admit him without complete documents, on the grounds that he'll come back with them later.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	After Arstotzka becomes known as a haven for international criminals (which you helped create if you previously failed to arrest Vince Lestrade), you are handed a wanted poster with the world's three most wanted criminals on it and are required to detain them upon sight.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: That would be you. You're just an overworked and underpaid border inspector. You determine who gets into the country based on paperwork. Which means your decisions can change people's lives, for good or ill. How you deal with the EZIC organization will determine if the current regime is toppled or stays in power.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_80ae159c	type	Informed Deformity
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_80ae159c	comment	Informed Deformity: One of the excuses people give if their picture looks different from their current appearance is "the years have been cruel." This can happen even if they look better than the picture in their passport.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_811dfb3f	type	Voice Grunting
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_811dfb3f	comment	Voice Grunting: Everyone, including the player, speaks in this.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: EZIC makes it very clear that they abide by this rule. Following a Kolechian terrorist attack, they send a messenger to tell you that their organization was not involved in it at all due to their unwillingness to hurt innocent people, and they even send another agent to look into the matter.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: The film makes a great job pointing out that in the dystopian setting, such harsh entry requirements may be necessary to stop terrorist attacks as was demonstrated by the Inspector's act of kindness. Such measures would not be needed at all in a peaceful region.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_83f43ca9	type	Dystopia Is Hard
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_83f43ca9	comment	Dystopia Is Hard: Arstotzka's border system is a mess of rules that change on a daily basis, yet the system pays so little and has such minor penalties for failure that corruption (whether for personal gain or moral reasons) is almost guaranteed. If ending 20 is achieved where the player remains loyal to the state, the government manages to survive multiple dilemmas that could have allowed it to fall.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The game's subtitle, "A Dystopian Document Thriller," as seen in its Steam listing.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: A delayed version: The Inspector's family photo is prominently shown throughout the film, which culminates to the point when Kolechian terrorists attack the border and possibly kill the Inspector.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: When terrorists strike when there is an entrant in the booth, that entrant is locked in the booth during the emergency. You never get to finish processing the entrant or let the entrant leave. The entrant disappears before the start of the next day.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Arstotzka and the other fictional in-game countries. Several countries have (city) names that allude to America (The United Federation, or Republia's Bostan, for instance) and others that sound more European while the country of Impor alludes to Asian countries, especially Japan. The result is that despite the Soviet overtones, it feels like it could be set anywhere in Europe, or even in North America or Asia. In addition, Lucas Pope has written that he didn't want Arstotzka to be USSR or Russia and thus for example the word "comrade" or any of its equivalents shouldn't be used when translating the game into another language. The game seems to be set in a fictional version of the Communist era Balkans if this in game map is to be believed. Compare it to a map of the Balkans during the Cold War◊. If the above is true, then the United Federation is hands down this universe's version of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Not only are both countries Federations, but both are to the furthest left of the Balkan Eastern Bloc, the borders for both seem to be similarly shaped, and Yugoslavia's leader Tito was the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, meaning Yugoslavia got more access to western consumer goods as the United Federation is mentioned to have access to computers.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_88e1831d	type	Vast Bureaucracy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_88e1831d	comment	Vast Bureaucracy: Arstotzka. You're assigned your job through a "labour lottery." Your rulebook is updated with new complicated rules almost every day. You have to deal with at least three different ministries, each with their own set of seals (they can't even agree on a single seal per ministry).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_88e5fcbc	type	One-Hit Polykill
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_88e5fcbc	comment	One-Hit Polykill: If you shoot at the queue (even with a tranquilizer gun), you will kill the person you aimed at and anyone standing close enough. On the day three terrorists attack the checkpoint, shooting either motorcycle causes it to explode, and doing so will kill the other rider via Splash Damage. You can even wait until the person on foot joins one of the motorcyclists to kill all three in one shot.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: When somebody comes in just to drop a bomb in your booth, Calensk gets incredibly ticked off. Not because of the danger it poses, but because the bomb is so poorly made that an amateur like yourself can defuse it easily.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: In the "Escape to Obristan" endings, you are an immigrant handing forged documents to a border inspector. Fortunately, he's worse at his job than you ever were.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Obristan's motto is "Obristan Above All". On the map, it's above all of the other countries, being the northernmost.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	comment	At one point you're tasked with assassinating the "Man in Red". Your best choice, even if you're siding with EZIC, is to ignore him. Shooting him not only gets you arrested (and executed, if you used the sniper rifle rather than the tranq rifle), but it ends up backfiring on EZIC because the replacement inspector isn't as cooperative. Ignoring the Man in Red just makes EZIC change their plans and they can still complete their takeover of Arstotzka.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Giving Simon Wens a picture of his victim will cause him to exclaim, "What the fuck!" and run back to Kolechia. Though, he kind of deserves it.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8ef5ae81	type	Lethally Stupid
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8ef5ae81	comment	Lethally Stupid: After the United Federation suffers from a polio epidemic, you are required to deny entrants who do not have a current polio vaccination. People who have an expired polio vaccination, have a certificate of vaccination that lacks a polio vaccination, or have no certificate of vaccination at all are considered this trope, and the Ministry of Health has required you to deny these people to keep polio out. Some of those who have no certificate state that they do not believe in vaccines.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	comment	Jorji Costava just keeps coming back no matter how many times you have him detained for smuggling drugs at the border. Justified in that the authorities in Arstotzka are utterly corrupt and he just bribes his way out of anything.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9298d265	type	Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9298d265	comment	Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Even if you have a perfect track record with zero citations and let his lover into the country, Dimitri will still send you to the gulags for the extremely minor crime of decorating the booth.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The game's graphical style resembles an EGA game from the early '90s, though the animation is a little too smooth for it.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: On the sixth day, a woman gives you a note saying she fears Dari Ludum will force her and her sister to work at his brothel. If you show the note to Ludum when he appears, he becomes enraged and says he will "break her in two." If you deny/allow him entry without exposing him, he evidently finds out about it anyway because the next day's news says some dancers at a club were found dead. After news that a serial child killer named Simon Wens is returning to Arstotzka, a vengeful father asks you to let Simon in and confiscate his passport, so he can find and murder him. He even gives you a photo of his daughter, who Simon killed, to convince you further. He will be thankful to you if you grant him his chance. Indeed, the next day Simon is found dead in a "confusing mess." On Day 19, Impor imposes trade sanctions on Arstotzkan imported goods, so Arstotzka responds by rejecting all Impor immigrants. This act quickly ends the trade sanctions from Impor.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_92f80196	type	The Inspector Is Coming
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_92f80196	comment	The Inspector Is Coming: Not you, but starting on Day 29, M. Vonel and your bulletin announce that all government workers will be audited, including you. There will also be days when your superior, Dimitri, shows up, marching out of his car and straight to your booth. Because there are strict protocols on how your booth is supposed to look, this is your cue to start taking down all of your unauthorized decorations before he enters.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9492d6a5	type	Evil Is Easy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9492d6a5	comment	Evil Is Easy: In the first part of the game, if someone's papers have a minor discrepancy, you can try to help them get their papers in order...or you can just deny their passport without explanation. The latter pays better. This is partly averted later, when you need to actually talk to the people who come up to your checkpoint before denying them, allowing them a chance to rectify any mistakes they've made.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: On the final day, EZIC agents enter the scene by running over a guard in a car and come out to shoot the rest.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: The best ways to handle Dari Ludum is neither to let him in (obviously bad option, but will save you a citation) nor deny him (supposed good option, but he somehow crosses the border and kills the prostitutes, while you also a receive citation for your trouble). The best ending to the quest is either showing Dari the note written by one of the prostitutes, which will anger him and cause him to spew death threats, giving you the justification to legally detain him; or using the inspection mode to compare his name in his documents to the note asking for help, which allows you to interrogate him about that and then arrest him, ultimately saving the hookers from harm. If you want to help EZIC with all of their tasks, one of them involves poisoning an assassin called Khaled Istom. If you poison him as instructed and allow him entry, he dies after a few steps past the border, and a guard checks on the body, which kills the guard, too. If you poison him and deny entry, he and a bunch of people in line die from the poison. It seems impossible to not let an innocent die while carrying EZIC's order out, but you can kill only Istom if you keep him in the booth until 6:00 and let everyone walk away before denying him.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: The first time you play the game, you may think to yourself that the first message that you get from EZIC, which says that the government is corrupted by greed and paranoia, along with the hefty bribes they try to give you are just poor attempts to persuade you into becoming a traitor. But later on, your supervisor orders you to violate protocol for his convenience, Jorji is able to buy his way out of incarceration, and Arstotzkan dissidents attack your post which forces the Ministry of Information to institute a passport confiscation program against all of its citizens (including your own family). When you piece these facts together, you'll suddenly realize that EZIC really was telling the truth after all.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: The developer took name submissions for potential immigrants from the public.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9600368d	comment	Your boss will get angry if he spies any unauthorized decorations on the wall. You can have items hanging and take them off moments before he enters the booth, which should be extremely obvious from his perspective. Once he's in his citations spiel, you can hang them back up as he's talking and won't get in trouble.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Your first inclination when coming across a scripted immigrant (whether they comment on the dÃ©cor in your booth or give you something or whatever) is to assume that they always have their papers in order. Not so. With remarkably few exceptions (most notably the brothel workers), scripted immigrants can have their papers in order or not, just like everyone else. This will throw you for a loop the second time you play through. If you are trying to get ending 19 (the one where you help EZIC overthrow the government) after getting good at denying entrants whose paperwork have discrepancies, it's very easy to skip over the three EZIC agents you're supposed to admit, since they always have obviously faulty paperwork. If you've grown accustomed to the shortcuts for bringing up the stamps and inspect mode, replaying the first few days where you have neither can take some getting used to. There are a number of rules that last for exactly one day, such an early change from entry tickets to entry permits being required. An inattentive player that lets their brain go on autopilot may find out the hard way that the rule is no longer in place the following day when they automatically stamp Admit/Deny. The last 1/4 of the game requires you to confiscate passports from Arstotzkans, first starting with just those from the Altan district and later from all Arstotzkans. Now, up until this point, detaining an entrant guarantees that there will be no penalties (except for Shae; detaining her results in a Non-Standard Game Over thanks to Dimitri), but now, if you want to detain an Arstotzkan, you have to confiscate their passport first. It's easy to forget to do so and end up with a citation, since detaining someone clears all of their paperwork off your desk with no more chance to seize the passport. Endless Mode: The game takes place in the first four days of January 1983. You might still be thinking that any documents with an expiration date in 1983 will be valid...only to get dinged because it's January 3 and you admitted someone whose ID Supplement or passport expired on 1983/01/02. Also inverted, you might waste time checking the exact dates on documents that expired in 1982 instead of just instantly denying (on the first two difficulty levels) or interrogating (on the latter two). As unlocking Endless Mode requires completing the game if you choose not to shortcut to it with the unlock code (it is always the same), if you play on the first two difficulty levels, you might interrogate entrants when there's no reason to do so and it just wastes time, since the Reason for Denial stamp only exists on the last two levels.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: It's up to random luck whether the next guy in line has a squeaky clean set of papers or not. Sometimes a string of easy passes will speed past your post, making that next one subtle flaw all the more difficult to notice. Some events are scripted, though, and on multiple playthroughs, you'll welcome them as you can stamp their paperwork and move on quickly. Also, different entrants take more time to process than others, which will affect your score in either the timed or perfection game modes. In the perfection mode, the amount of points per properly-processed entrant awarded decreases by one every minute until you are awarded one point per properly-processed entrant.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9918518b	type	Press X to Die
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9918518b	comment	Press X to Die: When you get the poison powder from the EZIC agent, there is nothing stopping you from touching the powder, even with the warning on the packet itself telling you not to.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Occasionally, you have to arrest an ambassador who is on the most wanted list, an ambassador with phony documents, or a phony posing as an ambassador. He or she might say "You are a fool!" or "You have no authority for this!" when you do this. Exploited trope at one point. On day 17, EZIC will try to sabotage border talks between Kolechia and Arstotzka by asking you to take the actual diplomat's passport and have their agent pass themselves off as the person. It's implied by the following day's news that their obnoxious and bizarre behavior ruined the negotiations.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: The Ministry of Admission's citation printer. You may not have spotted the mistake in someone's documentation, but it did! According to the devlog, Lucas Pope went this way instead of having a more fallible system so it would be obvious when you slip up.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The inspector, once you have access to a tranquilizer rifle. Think of the many guards you could save from terrorist attacks with a well placed shot.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: If the inspector doesn't say "Cause no trouble" or "Glory to Arstotzka" to an entrant passing through the checkpoint, expect something to go down on the other side. Sometimes subverted however, but usually not. Brothel workers — the girls who hand you cards from the Pink Vice — always have their papers in order, so you can just give approval and send them on. This can save you a lot of time. The four engineers who show up after Messof Anegovych asks you to give out his business cards should always be approved, but their papers might have discrepancies that will always be cleared with a thorough investigation. Likewise, Messof himself always has the right paperwork. The game only allows one discrepancy per entrant. If you notice one and clear it up, you can wave the person through without examining the rest of their information.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Savvy players who have been keeping tabs on terrorist attacks will see a red flag since Elisa shows up, which by coincidence is the same day a terrorist attack occurs.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9d838f1b	type	Right on Queue
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9d838f1b	comment	Right on Queue: Each day a massive line forms outside your post and it's your job to see as many of them as possible. The line never gets shorter, but subtly thins out on days following terrorist attacks, and is noticeably at its sparsest following the attack on day 26.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: If you're not making much money and can barely keep your family alive, you're going to brace yourself for the citation printing noise every time you process an entrant. The inspector from the Ministry of Information. If you've been helping out the rebel group, EZIC, God help you when you have to see him again... Every time the rules get updated in the morning. Especially if it's introducing yet another piece of documentation that you gotta verify.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Due to the art style (probably), the characters may have blue, orange, purple, or pale green skin.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_9f80e1da	comment	The "self-righteous" International Press Reporters will never bring in the proper paperwork required for entry. Yet if you deny their entry, they'll accuse you and the government of violating their rights to move freely into any country and trying to keep the truth of what's happening in Arstotzka from being known to the world. Grant their entry, however, and they "thank you" and proceed to write a scathing report about you and your government's incompetence which unfortunately makes it to the newspaper front-page.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: You will have to be, or will learn to be, in order to properly carry out your duties. For example, you need to be quick on date math to make sure that a work permit expires at the same time as the duration of stay on an access permit. Likewise, you will have to be able to quickly realize that "eight weeks" and "two months" are (well, reasonably) equivalent. At first, mismatched passport numbers are blatantly obvious. But later on, there will be rare instances where the passport number will be off by only one digit or even missing one digit.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The Inspector is clearly going through this after denying Elisa entry.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: The inspector retains his usual stoicism during the bomb scare on day 15, and Calensk is outright flippant.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crooks: You have to often deal with them. One scripted event involves the immigrant dropping two passports with the same photo but with different names, ID numbers and home countries (one is Arstotzkan, the other is Kolechian), indicating obvious forgery. You don't even have to look at them before the "Detain" button pops up. An entrant fails to present a document. If the inspector interrogates the entrant, the entrant will then present the document. The document sometimes contains incriminating evidence or a discrepancy that requires further interrogation that reveals incriminating evidence. The entrant should have stated that he or she does not have the document. Declaring that one does not have a document merits only a denial. Presenting a document with incriminating evidence or a discrepancy that when questioned reveals incriminating evidence merits detainment. Other criminals don't leave the line even when someone is arrested in front of them, nor do they try to flee or do much of anything when they are found out and two armed guards slowly walk toward them to arrest them. The world's three most wanted criminals are always in line the day the wanted bulletin is introduced. On subsequent days, typically, at least one criminal will try to enter the country. If you perform well enough in the endless modes, they will eventually show up, giving you one chance to arrest them when they do. Vince Lestrade shows up in the news then immediately shows up at the checkpoint with perfectly correct documents (with his full name on them), and somehow is surprised that you recognize who he is.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The Inspector makes the agonising decision to deny Elisa's entry, then Jorji Costava shows up with an obviously-forged identity supplement.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: However you interpret the group, you cannot deny that EZIC tries to take good care of you. When you accept their 1,000 credit gift, the Ministry of Income confiscates your savings and investigates you. When EZIC gets word of it, they send an agent (whom you must approve entry of) to help 'take care' of that for you. You won't get your savings back, but at least you won't get into trouble, and they've learned from this and decided to keep their gifts modest from now on. In the ending where you help them, they stay true to their word all the time and even send a messenger to warn you about an incoming attack from their agents and asks you to hold your fire. If you do that and let them do their thing, which is to bomb a hole in the border wall, they happily accept you among their ranks and even provide you and your family a safer place to live. In endings where you help EZIC but are imprisoned for other reasons, they'll ensure your family will safely escape to Obristan.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Some travelers, even when they are the gender they claim to be. An entrant having a name usually associated with the opposite gender doesn't count as a discrepancy.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: The filmmakers stated this was the reason for Elisa being turned away.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Jorji Costava just keeps coming back no matter how many times you have him detained for smuggling drugs at the border. Justified in that the authorities in Arstotzka are utterly corrupt and he just bribes his way out of anything. The terrorist who leaves a bomb in your booth. While it's easily defused and the day carries on as normal, you don't get a chance to arrest the person.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a7712503	type	Faction-Specific Endings
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a7712503	comment	Faction-Specific Endings: The three good endings basically depend on whether you uphold the Arstotzkan government, join EZIC in tearing it down, or pick neither side and flee the country: Arstotzka (never complete any EZIC tasks): You stop EZIC from destroying the border wall on Day 31, earning you a pass for the Ministry of Information's audit. After roughly a week's break, you return to your duties as the Inspector, thus unlocking Endless mode. EZIC (complete at least four EZIC tasks): You allow the EZIC agents on Day 31 to destroy the border wall, ushering in the era of the "New Arstotzka" and going from merely an accomplice of them to one of their trusted agents. Neutral (get as many Obristan passports as you have living family members, as well as 25 credits for each): You and your family take a train out of the country and are admitted into Obristan, abandoning both the Arstotskan government and EZIC.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: Arstotzka and most of the other countries in the region are oppressive communist autocracies.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: The Ministry of Information Special Investigation Division. Pro-tip: when you sit down in your booth and Special Investigator M. Vonel is already there waiting for you, be very, very careful about what you say to him.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a90eaeaa	type	Shell-Shock Silence
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a90eaeaa	comment	Shell-Shock Silence: If you don't shoot a certain terrorist or EZIC agent before they lob an explosive into your booth, you will hear a brief "BOOM" and then ringing as the screen goes white.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: The Antegrian couple arrive at one point. When it turns out the wife's documentation had her name spelled differently ("Robynsky" versus "Robinsky"), the Inspector is prepared to deny her entry... but Elisa's locket gives him a painful reminder of what happened earlier, so he breaks protocol and lets the immigrant through along with a reminder to bring correct documentation next time.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The setting of the repressive Artsotzkan regime's border control highlights the standards held by an eastern bloc nation from the 80s. Minor discrepancies may be grounds for denial and even arrest and interrogation, the ability to support an entire family unit is mandated by law and failure to do so is punishable with replacement by a "more able" worker, and everything should be approached while knowing the nature of the Secret Police, so don't even think about reporting EZIC's work to Vonel even if you don't intend on assisting them. A totalitarian order will take great pains to snuff out any issues. Misprints on documents can be enough for the Inspector to call for detainment, as a robbery of government papers has resulted in more accurate forgeries and prompted a desparate crackdown on anything that could be connected to it. Even the most trivial orders are to be followed, including instructions to only keep official wall hangings, so additional decorations will be treated as direct violations of those orders that must be punished with citations or arrest.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_abdf1659	comment	Bodyguarding a Badass: After the player gets access to the tranquilizer gun, the guards, particularly Sergiu, will start relying on the inspector to keep them safe, despite their superior armament and Sergiu's promise to protect him. Saving Sergiu in the first attack causes him to admit to being part of a Redshirt Army afterwards. This trope is also played with if the inspector fails to destroy the motorcycle that a terrorist is trying to crash into the inspector's booth on day 28, because one of the guards will shoot and destroy the motorcycle before it can hit the booth.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_abf75585	type	Checkpoint Charlie
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_abf75585	comment	Checkpoint Charlie: Working at one of these is the primary gameplay element.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The man who gives you two passports (see Epic Fail) instantly realises his mistake and starts begging you to give them back.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_adf2910	comment	Human Traffickers: Dari Ludum is one, operating with the Pink Vice Brothel as a cover for his true business. He has no concerns for the safety of his "employees", and if he is not detained, several women will be found dead in the brothel. Denying his entry won't be enough to stop this, and if given the sister's note begging for the Inspector to do something, he only voices his intent to have her killed. This is a very bad move on his part, because that gives the inspector enough evidence to have him detained.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_af6e7d83	type	Static Role, Exchangeable Character
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_af6e7d83	comment	Static Role, Exchangeable Character: If he survived and was denied previously, the Man in Red will be Khaled Istom, but if Khaled was poisoned or let through the border, the Man in Red will be an unknown person.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: The title screen scrolls up and then bobs up-and-down to the tuba in the main theme.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: An entrant comes into your booth with a forgery, somebody else's stolen document, or wanted status. Before you are able to detain them or even interrogate the critical discrepancy, the alarm sounds and you have to deal with the terrorists attacking your post. They just got away scot-free since you didn't get to arrest them.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: During the final week, you'll be notified of an impending audit by the Ministry of Information. In fact, their special investigator will audit you personally. If you've worked with the EZIC group, even helped them once or accepted one of their gifts, but haven't done enough for them to be able to start their revolution in earnest, you may want to consider escaping from Arstotzka; otherwise, the Arstotzkan inspector will have you arrested for treason and sentenced to death by the last day. On the day of Christmas Eve no less.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The guy who hands over two passports (in different names and places of issue) on day 14. You can even detain him immediately, no need for a check. This exchange you can randomly get: If the player somehow approves Jorji's first counterfeit passport and isn't just trying to see what happens if you do. It's an obvious fake written in crayon with a fictional country, fictional issuing city, and the expiration date is in the year 2013; the inspector should have noticed at least one of these problems.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A subtle one, but after you are forced to check for proper vaccinations from people travel from certain countries, you'll likely have someone try to enter without any vaccinations, at which point when you point it out, they state they do not believe in vaccinations. This makes it somewhat apparent that the game's creator isn't a fan of those who don't believe in getting vaccinations.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	An EZIC messenger gives you poison to apply to an assassin's passport. The paper says, "DO NOT TOUCH POWDER." If you touch the powder, it's an instant game over.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The action that Grestin's checkpoint faces is very similar to the situation at a divided Berlin.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: If you get a citation immediately after making a mistake, whoever's sending out the citations should be the one manning the checkpoint instead, since they're so sharp. Originally, this mechanic was implemented more realistically, but it was changed to this version not only to provide better feedback for the player, but also to make the Ministry of Admission feel more like an all-seeing Orwellian entity.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: You can choose to play your character this way, following protocol to the letter and refusing bribes. After all, they did manage to give you the job to support your family (even if it was by chance).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: EZIC's plan to have you assassinate the man in red turns out to be poorly thought out, as the inspector who replaces you will not cooperate, halting all their plans.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: Kolechians begin to attack Arstotzkans at the border, killing innocent civilians and guards, in the name of avenging their nation, which had lost the Six-Year War against Arstotzka not long prior to the events of the game. A non-lethal variant later occurs. At one point, Impor imposes strict trade sanctions on Arstotzka, damaging their economy. Arstotzka's response is to issue the denial of any and all immigrants from Impor. This tactic proves effective enough to lift the sanctions.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Republia and Antegria, the two main countries featured in Lucas Pope's spiritual predecessor game The Republia Times, have the smallest role of the seven countries appearing in Papers, Please. Impor and the United Fed both feature in prominent subplots (a trade dispute with Arstotzka and a polio outbreak leading to the introduction of the vaccination certificate), Obristan plays an important role in the endgame, and Kolechia is a constant and literally visible presence throughout the game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: There are a lot of these found throughout the game. You'll often have to decide between your paycheck and your conscience. For EZIC supporters, the day that you're tasked to kill the man in red will be this. Doing what they ask will result in your death, but not doing so will jeopardize the entire EZIC movement in Arstotzka. EZIC will simply adjust their plans if the man in red flees, conveniently making survival beneficial to you and EZIC. If you're low on money and family members are getting sick, you'll sometimes have to decide who gets medicine and who will have to be sacrificed. One happens on day 12, though the player might not realize it the first time they play. The Ministry of Information will leave some papers with the inspector to be picked up later, as well as a fake set of papers to give to an imposter claiming to be an agent of the ministry in the line behind the person who dropped off the papers. If the player gives the fake papers to the imposter, the Kolechian government will kill several of its own citizens, falsely believing them to be Arstotzkan spies. If the player gives the real papers to the imposter, the Kolechians will locate and kill the actual Arstotzkan spies in their country.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba	type	Timed Mission
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba	comment	Timed Mission: Your pay is based on how many people you can (correctly) process by the end of the work day. Note that if an entrant is processed after 6 PM, they don't count towards your earnings. You can't rush through people: if you admit entry to someone you should have denied or arrested, you are penalized. If you deny entry to someone you should have admitted, you are penalized. After Day 18, if you deny entry to someone you should deny, but don't stamp the denial reason, you are penalized. If you complete any EZIC objectives, but you don't complete enough to qualify for their ending, then from Day 29 onwards you must escape to Obristan by the end of Day 31 (which will entail stealing up to an extra five Obristan passports if you want to get your family out too, as well as having 25 credits for each person including yourself), otherwise on Day 31 EZIC will kill you in their raid on the border, or the next day you'll be arrested for failing to defend the border or executed for your connection to EZIC. One of the Endless Mode game types is Timed, where you have 10 minutes to process as many entrants as you can. Detaining an entrant adds 5 seconds to make up for the arrest animation taking some time to complete, while getting a citation takes away 30 seconds.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Face it, the amount of stuff that happens to the player in over the game makes you wonder if there's something in the air in Grestin. Even Sergiu notes that he's seen more action at the border compared to his time in the war!
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: The border inspector probably has no formal training at handling a gun, but his aim with both a tranquilizer gun and a Sniper Rifle is far better than any of the border guards' aim. Having these aiming skills is necessary because hitting one or more terrorists with your guns earns you a sharpshooter bonus that makes up for the pay for the people you could not process due to the terrorist attacks on the days that these attacks occur.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa	type	End-Game Results Screen
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa	comment	End-Game Results Screen: After each ending, the game shows you the stats on how many people you processed, denied, detained, etc.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bd7d0416	type	Beleaguered Bureaucrat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bd7d0416	comment	Beleaguered Bureaucrat: You will feel the time pressure, especially in the late-game when each entrant needs three or four pieces of complicated paperwork to get in.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: The game itself, of course. The Arstotzka Arskickers team.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: The Arstotzka Ministry of Admission. Updates to national immigration policies are received before missions and warnings and penalties, in the form of wage deductions, are sent whenever you make a wrong call.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: Plenty of entrants will try to bribe their way into the border. It's up to you to accept or deny their offers, but the idea that even a simple border inspector can take down infamous criminals like Shaddy Safadi or dismantle Dari Ludum's trafficking ring remains.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b	comment	That expensive gift you can take or burn? Taking it will eventually cost you all of your savings to be confiscated and for you to be investigated. Letting an EZIC agent in the country can help clear things up, though, but you'll never get your money back. Or, if you refuse the first gift but accept the second, more expensive gift, you'll soon get yourself a Nonstandard Game Over. Accepting the first is ok if you're low on money to begin with; you can keep the money for a day, and move up to a better apartment which you can downgrade later and keep that money. Just be sure to help the EZIC agent clear your name.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: The game is set in late 1982 (or, if you unlock Endless Mode, early 1983) and incorporates elements from The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (namely the ultranationalism and violent sectarianism among individual Eastern European nations). While the setting is fictional, the nations have an oppressive Soviet Bloc government feel to them.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c1408ad1	type	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c1408ad1	comment	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: The player assumes the role of a border patrol agent inspecting the paperwork of people trying to enter the country, a grim repressive totalitarian state. The player must decide whether to follow government protocol, often harsh and arbitrary (and regularly changing), or make their own judgment about the immigrants.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c20e0251	type	Jump Scare
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c20e0251	comment	Jumpscare: The Inspector asks an immigrant for their documentation, then the booth blows up.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: Arstotzka's way of dealing with international affairs can veer into this. All the bombers are Kolechian natives and supporters? Make sure that every single Kolechian entrant is scanned, with no care towards there being any weight discrepancies or not. A polio outbreak from the United Federation? Better to deny every single one of their immigrants entering the border than to take time testing them, regardless of whether or not they show any symptoms. These are eventually amended with further regulation, but only after several innocents have their time wasted or their right to travel violated. Jorji will show up a second time with an obviously fake passport. You don't even need to point out the discrepancies, you can immediately apply the red stamp and send it right back. During the biker variants of terrorist attacks, rather than worry about targeting every individual terrorist, you can just shoot the bikes themselves and take multiple out.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: On day 28, a terrorist on a motorcycle attempts to crash into the inspector's booth. On day 31, EZIC agents arrive to bomb the wall and run over one of the guards in their car.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c39dd4d	type	Fade to White
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c39dd4d	comment	Fade to White: There are four ways to die on the job (by failing to disarm the bomb, touching the powder, letting a terrorist lob a grenade into your booth, and letting an unfriendly EZIC agent lob a grenade into your booth), and if those happen, the screen goes white and returns to the main screen without triggering an ending.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: If the player keeps the guard Sergiu alive, Day 26 can having a touching moment where you let in the woman whom he fell in love with. The two happily embrace the moment they see each other, before she leaves and he continues working. That same day, three terrorists will attack the wall, and the player has to be very quick to prevent Sergiu being killed and giving this love story a tragic ending.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jorji. No matter how many times you deny or detain him, he remains nice to you. On one day, he even gets in line to see you. He'll also provide you a way to leave Arstotzka if you need to. Sergiu is pleasant and polite to you from the start, and he visits the booth a few times during his stay to chat with you. If you allow his long-lost love through the checkpoint, she thanks you with a 100-credit gift at the end of the next day. If you deny her, explaining to Sergiu that she should come back with proper paperwork, he simply says, "You know this is impossible."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c55c31e2	type	Non-Standard Character Design
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c55c31e2	comment	Non-Standard Character Design: Dimitri, Sergiu, Calensk, and M. Vonel's looks are unique. Additionally, Vonel stands out because his complexion is grey and he wears a black uniform, a color combination which no other character has. It helps make him look more ominous. EZIC agents wear dark hoods that completely hide their faces, with a single glowing eye within shaped like the EZIC Star.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7	type	Musical Spoiler
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7	comment	Musical Spoiler: If you and your entire family flee to Obristan, you present terribly-forged paperwork to the Obristan border inspector. There's a tense moment before he stamps the final passport, but you already know you've made it past because upbeat music has been playing since the first slide. Similarly, if you choose not to escape to Obristan at the end of the game and you stopped EZIC's final attack, the music as you begin the audit dialogue pretty much tells you the results of the audit, before M. Vonel's formally announced the result. If it's the same cheerful music from the "full family escapes to Obristan" ending, you're already in the clear. If you hear Game Over music, see you on death row!
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The countries of Republia and Antegria come from Lucas Pope's previous game, The Republia Times. Because of the pre-release name submission campaign, there are/were several unintentional cameos. Every name belonging to another property is immediately removed from the game when it's discovered. "Dari Ludum," the sinister master of the Pink Vice brothel, is a shoutout to the Ludum Dare game jam that Lucas Pope regularly participates in. Shae Piersovska is named after the game developer Shay Pierce. Shaddi Safadi is named after Shaddy Safadi, who worked at Naughty Dog alongside Lucas Pope. The ISBN for the rulebook is the same as the one for Nineteen Eighty-Four. One of the random entrant names is "Stanislav Parabol". Another random entrant name is "Jaqueline Hyde." And another random entrant name is "Jebediah Kerman." Yet another random entrant name is "Arin Hansonov." An entrant may also show up with the last name "Thomska." One of the randomly generated entrant names is Czeslaw Milosz. This is a reference to CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz, who was a famous Polish poet and a Nobel Prize winner. And then there's Jorji Costava... Simon Wens has a suspicious resemblance to fellow serial child killer Michael Myers.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Averted in the case of Sergiu. If you save his life and let his lover through, he informs you that the next day he is getting a different post. Luckily for him, there's no terrorist attack on his last day.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	Smash to Black: We get this as we hear the sound of the terrorist shooting and likely killing the inspector.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c9861848	type	Video Game Caring Potential
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_c9861848	comment	Video Game Caring Potential: Some good people might be unfortunately in possession of an improper set of identification or insufficient amount thereof and a kind player can "look the other way" and stamp them approved anyway. Similarly, you can also simply deny entry to people with incorrect/possibly forged documents instead of having them detained, which the first possible person you can detain begs you to do. In one instance, a woman claiming to be at risk of becoming a Sex Slave to a man in line after her will slip you a note begging for your help. When his turn comes up, you can detain him. The next day, you learn that your actions shut down an entire human trafficking ring, likely saving the lives of many women under the ring's captivity. About halfway through the game, one of the guards befriends you. A few days later, he asks for a favor. Granting him his favour will make you feel really good about yourself (but get you in trouble). On the same day there will be a terrorist attack. That same guard can be one of the casualties if you're too slow. If you manage to save him, he will be eternally grateful to you for not only reuniting him with this love, but also saving his life twice now. In the later days, you will learn that your sister gets arrested, leaving her daughter up for adoption. She may be another mouth to feed, but she is family... And adopting her gets you rewarded with an extra 100 credits, thankfully. You don't HAVE to ask questions to anyone with improper paperwork until the time comes where you need to interrogate entrants to activate the reason for denial stamp and use it; in fact, the moment you see an inconsistency, you can deny them outright. If you do ask, some of them may have made an honest mistake, have proper paperwork but looks like someone of the opposite biological sex, have bad papers that are not incriminating (e.g., expired or missing paperwork) where interrogation lets the entrant know what is wrong, could use your help to clear discrepancies (e.g., take fingerprints to prove an identity when the person's height or physical description is wrong, take fingerprints to look up a person's claimed alias, perform a search when the weight is wrong to prove that there is no contraband, or have a purpose or duration of stay mismatch corrected) or are criminals that are carrying incriminating evidence that can be exposed by investigating them. The fact that you're going through the extra effort just to see if it's a good person that can be admitted is showing that you care for the entrants and allows you to prevent crimes by arresting crooks. There's a man and woman on day 5 who appear to be husband and wife saying they're fleeing Antegria because it is an oppressive regime and will put them to death if they don't get over the border. The husband's papers are always in good order, and he goes first, but the wife's papers are never right, but you can allow her entry to spare her (assuming you haven't made any mistakes that day, she can be let through without consequence; she even awards you with her country's token). The newspaper will report on day 11 that a whistleblower has exposed Antegrian domestic espionage, which suggests that the couple was telling the truth.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ca4e037	type	Dude Looks Like a Lady
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ca4e037	comment	You don't HAVE to ask questions to anyone with improper paperwork until the time comes where you need to interrogate entrants to activate the reason for denial stamp and use it; in fact, the moment you see an inconsistency, you can deny them outright. If you do ask, some of them may have made an honest mistake, have proper paperwork but looks like someone of the opposite biological sex, have bad papers that are not incriminating (e.g., expired or missing paperwork) where interrogation lets the entrant know what is wrong, could use your help to clear discrepancies (e.g., take fingerprints to prove an identity when the person's height or physical description is wrong, take fingerprints to look up a person's claimed alias, perform a search when the weight is wrong to prove that there is no contraband, or have a purpose or duration of stay mismatch corrected) or are criminals that are carrying incriminating evidence that can be exposed by investigating them. The fact that you're going through the extra effort just to see if it's a good person that can be admitted is showing that you care for the entrants and allows you to prevent crimes by arresting crooks.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Jorji Costava does not seem to be quite there, as on his first attempt to pass through customs brings no documents at all, declaring instead that "Arstotzka so great, passport not required!", and on his second attempt presents a passport from "Cobrastan" crudely drawn in crayon. No matter how many times you reject or arrest him, he remains upbeat about the whole thing. He happily proclaims that he's smuggling drugs not once, but twice. And he's also ultimately your saviour if you helped EZIC at any point, as he provides a method of escape from the country.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_caf89e54	comment	Even the terrorists that attack the checkpoint and kill guards to further their political agenda will not attack the bystanders in the line with them, even when they're caught with weapons and about to arrested (instead of attempting some Taking You with Me attack).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: If you get at least one citation, you will be "awarded" a plaque recognizing you for your sufficience. If you get at least 20 citations, you'll be recognized for your presence.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ccd01fdf	type	Countrystan
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ccd01fdf	comment	Countrystan: One of the countries featured is Obristan. In one of the endings, it's the country you and your family flee to. Jorji, a drug dealer who makes repeated attempts to cross the border, at one point tries to enter with a passport for a country called Cobrastan. This country doesn't actually exist in the game's universe, the reason you will be cited if you let him through. (It doesn't help that said passport is drawn in crayon.)
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cd336741	type	"Wanted!" Poster
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cd336741	comment	"Wanted!" Poster: The newspaper prints and circulates one for Vince Lestrade who is wanted for murdering his girlfriend. He is a reference to Oscar Pistorius. After Arstotzka becomes known as a haven for international criminals (which you helped create if you previously failed to arrest Vince Lestrade), you are handed a wanted poster with the world's three most wanted criminals on it and are required to detain them upon sight. In the iPhone and Android versions, you can attach actual wanted posters to the wall to make it easier for you to spot these criminals due to the compromises required to get this to fit on an iPhone's or Android's screen. Dmitri considers these authorized, and the criminals will always not notice their own wanted posters.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The standards for approval and denial start out simple; let anybody that is an Arstotzkan native in while keeping those that aren't out. This is then amended with the inclusion of entry tickets for non-Arstotzkans. Eventually, other aspects of immigrants will be taken into consideration, such as their intentions for traveling, their jobs, if they've been vaccinated or not, and if they match their registered information. As events in the game unravel, more paperwork will be required and analyzed, and more functions get introduced, making the complexified job a far cry from the simple red and green stamps you were taught to use at the beginning. Additional layers of deception soon enter with the introduction of potential forgeries, only cued in with subtle details being amiss. These flaws only become harder to discern later into the month.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: You are subject to an audit if you don't burn EZIC's large monetary gift. You are an underpaid border inspector, so your neighbors will grow suspicious of your sudden wealth and report you. To EZIC's credit, they will apologize for their mistake and clear you of any wrongdoing if you admit their agent into the country and send you smaller and plausible gifts from now on. It really was incredibly naive of you to deposit all that loot, instead of hiding it someplace reasonably safe; what were you thinking?
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cf479cd8	type	Bomb Disposal
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cf479cd8	comment	Bomb Disposal: One of the scripted events sees a bomb delivered to the booth the player character works in, requiring the player to disarm it.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac	type	Take Your Time
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac	comment	Take Your Time: Time won't advance until you call the first entrant of the day into your booth. Until then, you are free to peruse the instructions and guide book to your heart's content, .
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	type	Escort Mission
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	Escort Mission: Weirdly enough for a bureaucracy simulator, the Sergiu subplot plays out like this. If the player cares about keeping him alive and reuniting him with Elisa, they have to ensure that he lives for 7 in-game days, in which time one of several events can kill him. Despite being a veteran, his aiming skills are quite bad for a checkpoint guard.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: You, if you play the game right and take the high moral ground on the occasions you can. You're an employee of a frankly hellish government, but you aren't malevolent at all and just want things to run smoothly and your family to be warm and fed.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Jorji, the inept and comical drug smuggler. You grow fond enough of him to address him by name and even apologize when you detain him.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Some segments show how the discrepancy checker function would work mentally, as shown as the Inspector scans through the assorted documents.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: If, for some insane reason, you decide to approve Jorji's Cobrastan passport, you will actually get a citation from the Ministry of Admission saying "Cobrastan is not a real country." If you are so inclined, you can highlight the date on the Ministry of Administration Official Bulletin. Everyone who steps into your booth has their weight appear on the scale, although recurring characters' weights vary. You can shoot innocent bystanders or border guards to see what happens (or incidentally if your aim is bad). You either get sentenced to death or forced labour depending on the offense. After you receive four business cards to hand to any engineers who cross the border, they have different dialogue when you try to give them more than one card. On the day EZIC asks you to poison a target, it is possible to kill just him without involving any innocent guards or entrants by waiting for 6:00 to come so everyone walks away. On day 29, Jorji will come and will suggest moving to Obristan since "things getting little crazy in Arstotzka". He mentions that the forger will need real Obristan passports to make them look authentic. At this point, you would approve his passport and he would give it to you, but you can confiscate it before giving it back to him: A few of the items you can hang up will get different comments from people depending on what kind of item it is. Even further, if you do hang up things and they get commented upon, denying someone right away will actually be accounted for. For example, if you hang up your son's art he drew for you if you bought him crayons, a lady might comment on it negatively and say he should "stick to sports." If you decline her right away saying that, she'll call you out for denying her for her comment. You cannot force Scripted Events to be skipped simply by waiting out the clock until 6 PM. If 6 PM comes and there are still scripted events that need to occur (generally, this requires the player to be intentionally slow), the day will continue indefinitely until they're all done. You cannot stop scripted terrorist attacks by entrants either by refusing the terrorist (scripted terrorists who pass through your booth appear at fixed positions in line); the game will just continue to feed you an unending stream of entrants with correct paperwork until you admit one of them, who will then turn out to be the terrorist. To unlock ending 18, the player must confiscate 5 Obristan passports (not counting the one Jorji gives them) for the each member of their family (assuming they are all alive) within 3 days. During the three days, certain entrants are always guaranteed to be from Obristannote the sixth entrant on Day 29, the first and ninth entrant on Day 30 and the first and seventh entrant on Day 31 so the player will always be given a chance to unlock this ending instead of having to rely solely on luck. During the bomb defusal sequence, you actually can stamp the active bomb with Approve or Deny, which unsurprisingly sets it off. This is only possible on desktop or iPad, as the visa stamp option only appears in appropriate contexts on mobile.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: An EZIC messenger gives you poison to apply to an assassin's passport. The paper says, "DO NOT TOUCH POWDER." If you touch the powder, it's an instant game over. That expensive gift you can take or burn? Taking it will eventually cost you all of your savings to be confiscated and for you to be investigated. Letting an EZIC agent in the country can help clear things up, though, but you'll never get your money back. Or, if you refuse the first gift but accept the second, more expensive gift, you'll soon get yourself a Nonstandard Game Over. Accepting the first is ok if you're low on money to begin with; you can keep the money for a day, and move up to a better apartment which you can downgrade later and keep that money. Just be sure to help the EZIC agent clear your name. At one point you gain access to a tranquilizer gun to non-lethally subdue attackers. You later gain access to a quite lethal sniper rifle. Actually using it as the messenger suggested will unsurprisingly get you jailed for killing what appears to be an innocent in the eyes of your government. However, at least the messenger makes it pretty clear that using the gun that way is meant to be a sacrifice for their greater good. That scary secret police officer? Yeah, maybe it's not the best idea to give evidence to him that could implicate you in even the slightest way. The scripted bomber that sends the explosive through the booth shouldn't actually be much of a threat, given that they numbered which wire needs to be cut to defuse it. Fail to listen to Calensk's very simple instructions though, and you'll find yourself booted to the title screen. If you point out to Shae that her diplomatic authorization doesn't include Arstotzka, the Detain button will appear and she warns you that you shouldn't press it. If you don't heed her advice, the next day Dimitri has you arrested on false charges. That said, merely denying her only gets you a scolding from Dimitri with no actual consequence.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d3354565	type	Medal of Dishonor
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d3354565	comment	Medal of Dishonor: If you've received any citations, the plaques you receive read like this. For 1-20 citations, the plaque reads "Recognition for Sufficience," and for more than 20, the plaque reads "Recognition for Presence." An entrant on day 12 mentions that all of the plaques look cheap and will tell you "Way to go" if they see that you're recognized for your presence.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d34cbda2	comment	When confronted with a discrepancy, many entrants will try to argue to correct the issue, which have the chance to fall under Implausible Deniability. Some will just drop all pretenses and simply beg, "Please let me through."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: An EZIC messenger provides you a key to a sniper rifle to assassinate a man (which you have to miss). At the last day, you can use that sniper rifle on the two agents that run an assault on the wall.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d39d4b71	type	The Perfect Crime
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d39d4b71	comment	The Perfect Crime: You can use the poison on day 20 to kill any entrant after the EZIC messenger who gives it to you, even innocent civilians. Whoever you use it on, provided it's not Khaled Istom, the kill will not get traced back to you, not even by M. Vonel during your December 24 audit. As far as everyone else is concerned, it's a mysterious "security incident."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: Related to Gender Reveal, it's not unusual for a husky person with facial hair to step into your booth with paperwork identifying them as female... and seeing that they do indeed have a very feminine body underneath it.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Jorji challenges the player with his rather outlandish plots to get through, first by not even bringing a passport to then using a crude fake later. Even after he has the rules down, he not only fails to deny he has contraband, but in addition, openly admits to smuggling drugs into Arstotzka, bribing police to suppress information, bribing police to escape prison, and paying for forged documents when his are taken away. It's quite possible that you'd rather just let him through than try to make sense of it all.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Several tend to attack the border. The Kolechians are responsible for most of the terrorist attacks early on. EZIC, for all their righteousness, are not above terrorism (though never against civilians).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: If you interrogate Shaddy Safadi for the contraband he has on himself and refuse to let him in in exchange for credits, the Inspector declares that "you cannot bribe an officer of Arstotzka." But you can still take bribes from others for the rest of the game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Some travelers state this as an explanation of why they might have a name discrepancy. Sometimes it's legit.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	One of the Endless Mode game types is Timed, where you have 10 minutes to process as many entrants as you can. Detaining an entrant adds 5 seconds to make up for the arrest animation taking some time to complete, while getting a citation takes away 30 seconds.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d8573ef9	comment	Detained individuals are escorted off of the premises by the guards for questioning by the government. Many are not seen after this, but Jorji is able to return from these arrests, providing the chance for survival, at least if one has the means.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody around you bats an eye at the hooded people with the EZIC symbol on their face. You'd think M. Vonel would also notice the suspicious cards on the counter right in front of him.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Starting on Day 29, you can escape to Obristan alone, leaving your family behind with their fate unknown.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: Sergiu eventually gives the inspector a locket of his love, Elisa, so that she can be recognized when it's time. It's up to the player whether Elisa is let in or not, as she lacks proper paperwork.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The player can choose to act as one, requiring a mix of following protocol and doing the right thing in the name of the greater good.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: If you want to remain completely loyal to your employers or just receive zero citations, you basically have to invoke this attitude. The game will try to sway you away from following orders by testing your morality and loyalty with sob stories and bribes. The justification is also tested by the rules changing on a day-to-day basis, sometimes even undoing previous rules that could have gotten people denied entry or detained.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Jorji Costava, a drug smuggler, says this himself in the following quote when he is first detained: "Drugs are bad. Not good for kids."
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The Grestin checkpoint is exactly as eventful as one would expect from the only open checkpoint in divided Berlin. There are several intrigues going on that involve the checkpoint, and you'll be involved in everything from espionage, to smuggling, to treason. For example, one of the biggest subplots is the cold war between Arstotzka and Kolechia, and the Order of the EZIC Star is actively involved in sabotaging negotiations between the two countries. Yet, EZIC is not working with the Kolechian extremists who have been suicide-bombing the checkpoint guards - they're a completely separate bunch of loonies. Should the player care, keeping an eye on the newspaper and instructions will help them keep track of what's going on.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_defd0c58	type	A Taste of Their Own Medicine
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_defd0c58	comment	A Taste of Their Own Medicine: One of the scripted entrants is a former border inspector from the United Federation, who brags about how the Federation's border controls are now computerized and can deny entrants much faster that way, suggesting that they seemed to get a kick out of keeping entrants out of the U.F. If they have a discrepancy that bars them entry and you point it out, they'll tell you to just give them the denial stamp so they can leave. As you hand them their documents back, they quietly mutter "So this is what it feels like" [to be on the receiving end of a denial] and leave.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Many entrants will try to bribe you. You can of course accept the money (and then detain them anyway).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Jorji Costava, the world's least subtle and most harebrained illegal immigrant and drug runner. Your character starts anticipating his visits over the course of the game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e0c3f8bf	type	Punch-Clock Hero
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e0c3f8bf	comment	Punch-Clock Hero: The player. Day in and day out you man your post at the border in order to support your wife, son, uncle, and mother-in-law who will all starve and die without support from your wage. In other words, he is a very literal punch clock hero. 6 to 6 each day, 7 days a week.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: A variation. Spoken dialogue is in Russian, however written text is in English. While this could be explained by the fact that most of the text consists of international travel documents, and thus would make sense to have English, a widely-spoken language, it doesn't explain why the Inspector receives a telegram addressed to him that's also in English.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: The title screen is all over this.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Several times during a playthrough, entrants will respond to a missing piece of paperwork as asking what that is. One could be forgiven for not knowing what, say, entry permits are a day after they're introduced, but at least a few will ask you, to your face, what a passport is. At another country's immigration checkpoint.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e2d7b14c	comment	On the day three terrorists attack the checkpoint, shooting either motorcycle causes it to explode, and doing so will kill the other rider via Splash Damage. You can even wait until the person on foot joins one of the motorcyclists to kill all three in one shot.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3736433	type	Rage Within the Machine
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3736433	comment	Rage Within the Machine: Potentially you, depending on how much you come to hate your own government.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3a4c481	type	Turncoat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3a4c481	comment	Turncoat: You can turn against Arstotzka and help overthrow the government by doing EZIC's tasks. At the beginning of day 31, a messenger will give you a note that says that EZIC will keep you safe; hold your fire. If you so wish, you can shoot their agents at the last moment, betraying both EZIC and Arstotzka. Let's hope you have enough money to escape to Obristan.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: On day 26, if you let Elisa in and manage to keep Sergiu alive, they'll repay your kindness by dropping off 100 credits at your home the next day.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3bdea5c	type	Artistic License â€“ Politics
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3bdea5c	comment	Ironically, this falls into Artistic License - Bureaucracy: especially in an eastern bloc state, where seemingly menial bureaucratic positions can take years of formalized training (or cynically, nepotism), both the opposite of a "job lottery", but it fits with the western imagination of how such countries work.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3f34fb4	type	Featureless Protagonist
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e3f34fb4	comment	Featureless Protagonist: The player character doesn't have a name or even an icon. The player character's wife finds a picture on the second to last day with the player character in it, though. Another inspector appeared on the official website prior to release. He's a nondescript man with brown hair and glasses. Several viewers mistakenly assumed that the man was the main character of the game until Lucas Pope confirmed that he actually wasn't.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e4e86215	type	Fake Difficulty
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e4e86215	comment	The game's date format can be changed in the options menu, and every document in the game will use the set format. Apart from just being comfortable for the player, this also removes a source of potential Fake Difficulty since a good chunk of story mode happens between the 1st and 12th of December (i.e., when 11/12, 12/11, 11/11 and 12/12 could mean the difference between cleared for entry and a major discrepancy).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e5406b1b	type	Beat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e5406b1b	comment	Beat: You have the option to flee to Obristan. For dramatic effect, there are a few blank "Next"s where dialogue would normally be while the Obristan guard is considering, but you always get a pass into Obristan.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Jorji is really persistent about getting past that border, no matter how many times he gets turned away or detained. No matter how unhelpful you are to EZIC, they still get in line to try to convince you to do things for them. Actually completing their tasks after failing on the first two is unwise unless you have the means to escape the country.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Elisa is turned away, and Sergiu is killed by Kolechian terrorists.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Jorji, the day he appears when his face is in the wanted bulletin.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e69173b6	type	Time-Limit Boss
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e69173b6	comment	Time-Limit Boss: All of the terrorists except for suicide bombers that you can stop by detaining them are this once you have access to the tranquilizer gun and/or sniper rifle. You have a limited amount of time to shoot them before they start killing the guards, the guards shoot the terrorist trying to ram you with an explosive motorcycle, or EZIC bombs the border wall.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e7b73414	type	Sniper Rifle
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e7b73414	comment	Sniper Rifle: One eventually gets issued to the player for those times when terrorists are about to make things a whole lot worse for Arstotzka and "budget reassignments" force some of the guards away from your checkpoint. It's only a tranquilizer rifle, though, until EZIC gives you the key to a sniper rifle....
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e90f8e37	type	Lady Looks Like a Dude
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e90f8e37	comment	Lady Looks Like a Dude: Some women have heads that look like they belong on men. You have to strip search them to find out that the passport's stated biological sex is true. If your strip search discovers that the passport states that the entrant is a woman when you find that the entrant is a man, you can arrest him for having falsified documents.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: This is why the inspector can detain people whose papers contain names with typos. Entrants always attribute typos as aliases. However, if the entrant stated that there was a typo, the inspector would have just denied the entrant instead of being given the opportunity to check the claimed alias against the entrant's identity record and then arrest the entrant for identity fraud if the claimed alias is not in the identity record.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	type	Achievement System
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	comment	Achievement System: Seven entrants will give you tokens for completing certain tasks (there is one for each of the countries in the game), which are recorded on the "End of Day" screen. Several of them are for taking the "morally right" action in a situation even though you receive a citation for doing so.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ead31b1b	type	Splash Damage
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ead31b1b	comment	Splash Damage: A motorcycle that explodes due to being shot (even with a Tranquilizer Dart) will kill or destroy other nearby motorcycles or terrorists that are close enough.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: One Arstotzkan citizen will complain at you for being "slow" and that he has a bus to catch, even if you give him back his passport in less than five seconds. Go ahead and take your time. The "self-righteous" International Press Reporters will never bring in the proper paperwork required for entry. Yet if you deny their entry, they'll accuse you and the government of violating their rights to move freely into any country and trying to keep the truth of what's happening in Arstotzka from being known to the world. Grant their entry, however, and they "thank you" and proceed to write a scathing report about you and your government's incompetence which unfortunately makes it to the newspaper front-page. The M.O.A. divisional authority of East Grestin - your boss - criticizes you for making any number above 0 citations and has you arrested if you hang unauthorized decorations twice. If you follow the rules and deny someone he's ordered you to allow entry, he is angry and insults you, and if you (also correctly) detain her, you are arrested on trumped-up charges. He makes no effort to pull any strings for you. Of course, you can play this way. For instance, you can keep Danic Lorum's watch and detain him, or sell it to the highest bidder, who offers 10 more credits for its return than he does. You also don't have to return the Arstotzka Arskickers pennant to Filipe Hasse. Both call you out on your behavior.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: An even more extreme example than any from the game. After denying Elisa, the Inspector decides to atone by breaking protocol to allow the Antegrian couple through. Unfortunately, they turn out to be Kolechian terrorists who kill both Sergiu and possibly the Inspector.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ebebb87	type	The War Just Before
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ebebb87	comment	The War Just Before: The story is set in a border checkpoint between the fictional countries of Arstotzka and Kolechia, which recently fought the Six-Year War.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ec90f86f	type	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ec90f86f	comment	Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: The Kolechians who throw bombs at the guards. On day 31, if you haven't helped EZIC, one of their agents will also throw an explosive into your booth if you don't shoot them in time.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: All the countries on the map, which represent various eastern European Communist states. "Cobrastan" is a fictional country In-Universe.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eef85d73	type	People's Republic of Tyranny
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_eef85d73	comment	People's Republic of Tyranny: Republia is implied to be one and is definitely one in Lucas Pope's earlier game, The Republia Times.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f010f6b4	type	Adjustable Censorship
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f010f6b4	comment	Adjustable Censorship: The game allows you to change whether nudity is visible when the x-ray scanner is used. If nudity is turned off, the entrants will be wearing underwear.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Some would-be immigrants will try to distract the player character by slipping in flyers for a certain Arstotzkan brothel with their official papers. Surprisingly, the brothel workers are scripted, and their papers are always in order, so if a girl hands over a card, she can be accepted right away. Another scripted entrant will try this with a love letter. The entrant always is missing most of the required paperwork.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: The Antegrian immigrant the Inspector breaks protocol for is a suicide bomber.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: One of the good endings requires you to not help EZIC at all and stay loyal to Arstotzka.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: It is possible for the player character's young son to die on his birthday, if he is too ill.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: On day 17, EZIC will task you to confiscate a Kolechian diplomat's passport and then give it to one of their agents. Said agent will look very similar to the diplomat, which he uses to his advantage by posing as the diplomat to sabotage the talks over the border dispute.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f5a22215	type	Ambidextrous Sprite
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f5a22215	comment	Ambidextrous Sprite: If the entrant provides documentation with their pictures, their images will likely be flipped, though there's no discrepancy there.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990	type	Verbal Backspace
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f5b7b990	comment	Verbal Backspace: A surprising number of immigrants get their length of stay completely wrong. Not simply off by a short measure of time, but way off. When you confront them about the discrepancy, they universally have an "Oh, right, that" reaction. Even more amusing is that the system sees this as clearing the discrepancy. If you get some artwork from your child and hang it up at your work station, one scripted entrant will insult it. If you deny or detain them for any reason, they think it's because they offended you and proclaim that such art should be in a museum.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f63e468f	type	Terrible Artist
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f63e468f	comment	Terrible Artist: Your son. Granted, he's a child, but in the "old family photo", he doesn't look that young, either. If you hang up his drawing the day after you receive it, an entrant will comment that their dog can do better.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Certain endings in the game, with elements such as the upbeat, cheerful music and optimistic narration, provide a stark contrast to the grim, oppressive nature of the rest of the game.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f79b419e	type	The Most Wanted
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f79b419e	comment	The Most Wanted: After the newspaper criticizes Arstotzka for becoming a haven for international fugitives, you are given the photos of the world's most wanted criminals each day and are told to detain them on sight. You can hang wanted posters of the most wanted criminals in your booth in mobile versions of this game. The criminals never notice the wanted posters that you have hung in your booth when they enter it.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f870d50	type	Consolation Prize
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f870d50	comment	Consolation Prize: If you try to shoot a terrorist in the process of attack but miss your shots, you'll still get a smaller bonus for trying, assuming that said terrorist doesn't kill you.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can let the guy running the Sex Slave trafficking ring through. You could also just deny everyone entry, whether their papers are good or not, though that'll get you in trouble very quickly. Until the rules change so that you have to interrogate suspicious potential entrants, you make a lot more money by simply denying them, as dealing with the discrepancy wastes time and you're paid by the number of people processed. When you do have to issue a reason for denial, you can just point out the error and use the denial and reason stamps without trying to further clear the discrepancy. This counts as correct processing. The day after the first suicide bomber attack, the rules say you have you search every Kolechian entrant. To save time, you can deny all of them rather than go through the long scanning process. When you find someone with a discrepancy that indicates a typo, stolen document, or forgery, instead of simply denying them, you can detain them since you get a 5-credit bonus for every two people you detain. It's somewhat ambiguous how bad being detained actually is, considering that the guards let Jorji go without much hassle after he gets caught with drugs. Still, it's probably a stressful and massively inconvenient overreaction to what is more often than not a minor mistake. There's the man who tries to bribe you with both cash and a wristwatch (a "family heirloom"). You can deny him and give him back the money and the watch... or detain him and keep the watch and money for yourself. Giving Simon Wens a picture of his victim will cause him to exclaim, "What the fuck!" and run back to Kolechia. Though, he kind of deserves it. You can stop paying your family's bills and kill off all but one of them without losing the game. As the game wiki puts it: "[I]t is possible to [do this] in order to reduce expenses. It is also exactly as callous as it sounds." One of the endings requires getting up to six Obristan passports to use for you and your family to flee the country. You get one of them from Jorji, who hands it over willingly, but you have to wrongly deprive up to five other Obristanians of their ability to travel, who are more often than not completely innocent. And they're not getting their passports back by calling the number on the slip when you'll be long gone by then. A man will ask you to let his wife through, who happens to be the next person in line and both of them had fled their country to avoid being killed. The husband's papers are cleared, but the wife's is not. You can send her away, separating the couple forever and dooming the wife. Sergiu at one point asks you to let his girlfriend, Elisa, through. Naturally, she doesn't have her papers in order when she shows up. If you deny her entry, she'll ask you to tell Sergiu that she will see him in the next life. If you really want to be cruel, you can deny Elisa entry and allow Sergiu to be killed in the next terrorist attack without him ever knowing that his girlfriend had come by. You can also allow Sergiu to be killed before the day Elisa comes to the checkpoint if you want to feel less bad about denying her. During a "Drown Out" video, Yahtzee Croshaw showed a lot of glee sending people to be detained. On Day 20, you can use the poison to kill Khaled Istom like EZIC orders you to, or use it on the journalist who seems bent on giving you a hard time...or use it on a completely unrelated innocent entrant. In the latter two cases, nobody ever finds out that you're responsible, and while the day gets cut short due to the resulting security alert, the game carries on like nothing happened afterwards. On the pettier side, there's no consequences for stamping anywhere outside of the designated space on the passport, which means that you can stamp all over someone's picture and information and thoroughly ruin it as a useful document. Just because you can.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Jorji Costava, a man who comes in repeatedly and almost always has something wrong. For example, his first appearance has him come in with no passport. The second time, he has a made-up passport from "Cobrastan" that you can reject outright. He'll also cheerfully admit that all his papers are forged (when he finally gets his paperwork in order, he tells you it's because he paid for really good forgeries), that he's a drug smuggler, and that he'll just bribe his way out of prison if you detain him again. You actually get friendly dialogue with him as he keeps appearing, including a "Sorry, Jorji" when he has to be detained again. Funnily enough, knowing a criminal can come in handy â€” he can ultimately help you escape the country if needed.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fac8c4d6	type	No-Damage Run
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fac8c4d6	comment	No-Damage Run: One of the Endless Mode games, Perfection, requires you process entrants without any citations. Note that it is technically impossible to complete the main story due to a story-mandatory citation as there is no way out of getting a citation for confiscating Jorji's passport, but you can still attempt a no-damage run outside of those instances.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fb739a16	type	Not Even Bothering with an Excuse
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fb739a16	comment	Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: When confronted with a discrepancy, many entrants will try to argue to correct the issue, which have the chance to fall under Implausible Deniability. Some will just drop all pretenses and simply beg, "Please let me through." Jorji, when he's caught attempting to smuggle contraband.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Early on, Jorji Costava will, as part of a long chain of inept attempts, try to enter Arstotzka with an obviously fake passport. If the player decides to pass him, the citation will ignore the numerous other problems with his papers (like the fact his passport is crudely drawn in crayon) and focus on the fact that "Cobrastan is not a real country". If the player doesn't pass him, the inspector cites the above as the reason. The player can also choose to interrogate him over his lack of an entry permit.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fcd993bd	type	Video Game Cruelty Punishment
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_fcd993bd	comment	Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Refusing entry to a valid applicant will result in a citation in the same way that admitting an invalid applicant will. Once you gain access to the tranquilizer rifle, using it to shoot an innocent civilian will result in you being arrested and sentenced to forced labor. Later you get access to a lethal sniper rifle, and using it to kill an innocent will result in the death penalty. You will also be sentenced to death if you use either weapon on one of the border guards. Functionally, forced labor and the death penalty are the same thing, although they count as separate (bad) endings. If you have completed enough EZIC tasks to qualify for their good ending, you will be ordered to hold your fire on the final day. If, when the EZIC agents show up, you fire anyway, they will attack you as well. If you stop them from blowing up the border wall, you will get a bad ending where you're sentenced to death for your involvement with EZIC and an EZIC agent passes you a message telling you that EZIC will no longer provide support to your family. If you do let them blow up the border wall before opening fire, then although EZIC has toppled the Arstotzkan government, they will tell you that you have no place in the new Arstotzka (what this entails for you is not stated).
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ff1cde15	type	New Weapon Target Range
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ff1cde15	comment	New Weapon Target Range: Each time you get introduced to a new rule, document, or type of discrepancy, it's almost guaranteed the first or second entrant that day will show an example of the new document or let you exercise the new rule. The game's habits about this are Lampshaded in day 14, where the criminal bulletin is first introduced; the very first visitor to your booth has their mug on the criminals page.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: If you let his friend into the country, then your Bad Boss, Dimitri, will say that coming to the checkpoint doesn't seem so bad anymore.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Boy howdy. This game will trigger an emotional response if you are old enough to have experienced life in an Eastern Bloc state, preferably before Perestroika, or if you have relatives who did. It is, for all its abstraction and the fictional setting, an eerily accurate portrayal of both the actual mechanisms of a totalitarian state as well as quite an authentic immersion in the mood of a typical inhabitant.
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Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_ffb1df90	comment	Perpetual Poverty: From beginning to end, you're going to struggle to make ends meet for you and your family (unless you're really good at the game). Even if you accept a 1000-credit bribe, your superiors will catch on and yank it, along with the rest of your savings, from you.
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	And the Adventure Continues / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arrange Mode / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Beleaguered Bureaucrat / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Big Brother Is Employing You / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bodyguarding a Badass / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bomb Disposal / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bribe Backfire / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Casual Danger Dialogue / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Checkpoint Bluff / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Checkpoint Charlie / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Commie Land / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Corrupt Bureaucrat / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Countrystan / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cover Identity Anomaly / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damned By a Fool's Praise / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Deadly Closing Credits / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Do Wrong, Right / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Dude Looks Like a Lady / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Evil Is Hammy / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Failure Gambit / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Featureless Protagonist / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Full-Circle Revolution / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Global Ignorance / int_577922e4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Golden Ending / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Graceful Loser / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Medal of Dishonor / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Country, Right or Wrong / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	New Weapon Target Range / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Noob Bridge / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with an Excuse / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nudity Equals Honesty / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Order Versus Chaos / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Satchel Switcheroo / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Senseless Sacrifice / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sex Slave / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stamp of Rejection / int_423d62c4
Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	Suicide Attack / int_423d62c4
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Papers, Please (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Stool Pigeon / int_423d62c4
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PapersPlease	sameAs	Papers, Please (Video Game)

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