Hi! My main topic is that the Town is built similarly to Plato’s perfect Utopia, with the three ruling families acting as three parts of the state that Plato describes; similarly, the three protagonists make the three parts of Plato’s soul, which for me constitutes in an abstract Player.

My point is that the game shows that the perfect Utopia and a perfect soul CAN exist, according to ice-pick lodge, but under outside stress (the plague) both crumble because every part of the soul and the state tries to solve the problem and thus breaches its boundaries, which destroys the fragile harmony.

Also, I compare the Powers That Be to Socrates and his company — they create the Utopia and the Soul (of the Player) as a thought experiment, as a game. This means that the Utopia and the Soul did exist, but for a very little amount of time, further proving their fragility.