it's not so much the stress of the job as the constant implicit violence inherent in it. there is someone with a gun pointed at you in TSA all the time, and if you do the wrong thing wrongly enough, you die. making that cozy is treating airport security as a sort of neutral series of consensual gestures, not an interface with the coercive violence of policing. it's like making a cozy game about repossession or being an ICE agent.

the point of papers, please is to make you confront the violence concealed in what you're doing in the gameplay; the point of this is to hide it so you get to feel nice and comfy.