Liminalia crime, policing, and jailing

liminalia

eb08568 — the city gets a crime problem and a justice system.

pressure and theft

Crime pressure accumulates from debt, unemployment, hunger and poverty, at 100 to the threshold. Past it, a citizen commits theft against a co-located shop or citizen — 10 percent of the take, minimum 1. Nodes within routing reach of a staffed police station accumulate at a quarter rate: station placement is real deterrence policy, not decoration.

response and sentence

On a crime, the nearest on-duty officer is dispatched. On arrival the perpetrator is fined 25 (via debt if broke), the stolen money is returned, and they are jailed for 24 simulated hours — Citizen.JailedUntil. Jailed citizens do not act, travel, work, get paid, get hired, or accrue pressure; the sentence is served in place. Unresolved crimes expire after 12 hours with the thief keeping the loot.

CrimeService raises CrimeCommittedEvent and CrimeResolvedEvent; JailedUntil persists with the save. 281 tests.

The tests caught three of their own bugs before they caught the code's: a police station building in the officer test caused the labour pass to hire the poor citizen mid-scenario; exact-money assertions broke on meals eaten during fast-forwards; and the jailed-wage test needed a 48-hour sentence because the clock advances before the business cycle in fast-forward.