Pawperwork

You are the cog that makes the paperwork turn. Pawperwork is an idle game that lives on top of your other windows, in a strip of screen you can leave open while you use the computer for anything else. There is a desk, a stack of papers that never stops arriving, and a cat with a stamp. Or a dog, if you would rather have a dog. Pull the package in, stamp what is inside, send it out the other side.

Then hire an intern to open what comes in, let the cat stamp on its own, put a dispatcher on the outbound tray, and go find the next bottleneck. The job never changes. The scale does. Every tier of the bureaucracy runs the same three steps: collect, stamp, dispatch. What changes is what you are stamping and what stands between the steps. Produce enough and you get promoted. The tier above is yours now, and everything you built so far keeps running underneath it and feeding it.

A promotion only ever adds. Nothing you built ever shuts down. Desk, you stamp a single sheet of paper Office, folders of ten sheets Bureau, pouches of a hundred District, boxes of a thousand Metropolis, containers nobody has counted and five more above thatTen tiers in all. They stop being about buildings well before they stop being about paperwork, and the last thing you seal is worth a billion sheets of it.…