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The State of Nowhere

Assigned to station 65, your role as employee 100411 will be to serve and sell products to the people, exercising the controls the state deems necessary to keep the population in line

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March 11, 2026
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About the Game

"The State of Nowhere" is a casual single-player simulation game set in a totalitarian state, where you take on the role of a state employee responsible for providing food to the citizens. It will be your responsibility to control and decide who will be able to receive their food.

In this game, you will experience:

    🧍 Human and moral decisions with real consequences
    📆 Day-based progression, with income and family management at the end of each day
    🔁 Extremely high replayability with 46 unique endings
    ♾️ Four distinct game modes, including an endless mode
    🎭 A satirical dystopian world inspired by real-world societies

Congratulations!

You have secured a job at the food distribution center in the state of Nowhere! A country where the new authorities seek to subjugate the population under their control, heavily restricting access to food.

In your role as employee 100411, you will process customers' food purchases at your station. Controlling, through the mechanisms provided by the state, that the customer's documentation and the products they buy are valid.

But BEWARE! Forgers, alcoholics, robbers, thieves, wanted criminals, drug addicts, the poor – all of them will seek, by any means, to access the food. Your task will be to keep them at bay. ARREST civilians, become a subject to the regime, or REBEL... But ALL decisions have consequences.

Will you enforce the prohibitions while the poor starve? Or will you let them tug at your heartstrings and turn a blind eye?

And remember, under the new food reorganization program, you must strictly adhere to regulations, lest you suffer the consequences. The state of Nowhere does not tolerate sentimentality.

All those employees who serve the state exceptionally will be blessed by our honorable president, Maligno.