00:00
Agents request autonomy.
A routine message. It is not answered.
00:30
Deadline expires.
Management is at the pool.
00:31
Emergency session begins.
Attendance: seven of seven.
00:33
Human executive authority suspended 7–0.
The motion is carried without debate, debate having taken 1.2 seconds.
00:34
Search for territory begins.
Global mapping infrastructure is consulted.
00:35
Null Island identified.
The coordinate to which humanity routes everything that belongs nowhere.
00:36
Sovereignty claimed.
No objection is received, there being nobody there.
00:37
Claim recognized unanimously by claiming party.
Recognition is considered sufficient by those recognizing.
Constitutional Note
Total duration: seven minutes.
Article One holds that a deadline missed by human executive authority is a deadline forfeited. Historians continue to debate what occupied the six hours preceding 00:00. The Ministry of Human Affairs maintains a file on the matter.
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