Purpose of Visit Demo

Days 1 to 3 at Booth 3, Kessel CrossingYou are the new officer on the only road between two invented republics. This demo is the first three days of your posting. Your supervisor watches your calls, the queue never stops, and rent is due. Day 1. Passports. Check the passport, check the rules sheet, lean in and compare the photo with the face at the window. Seven travellers, a few with a story. When the last one leaves, the terminal prints a watch-list entry where every field reads NOT KNOWN.

Day 2. Visas. Visas join the rulebook. Names, dates of birth and document numbers must agree across both papers. A notice on the board says the blank entry is still out there. Day 3. The interview. Now you ask the questions: purpose, length of stay, address, job. Everything they say lands in the transcript. When an answer does not fit the paperwork, drag the line onto the field it contradicts. Spies cross today on clean papers, and only their answers give them away.

You also open your first bag. Every evening. Your pay depends on correct calls. Choose which bills to cover: rent, food, heat and your sister's tuition. Then read the evening news to see what your stamps did. Judged by what you sawEvery denial needs a reason you proved. A lucky guess is cited as "no grounds".…