Oxygénia

different color, a different character and triggered another mood.
Now he was certain: this was the square, without a doubt he had
arrived there. He minded it well: it was the south west edge of the
town.
There were also statistics on the map. In Oxygenville, only ten
thousand inhabitants lived. In the Cities of the Rememberers –
fifteen together – lived five million scientists and researchers, but in
the thousands of concrete cities on the Great Continent eight billion
beings.
Peter continued. The next was the calendary part. In Oxygénia,
the year was divided into twenty months. On the central continent,
climate was always pleasant, with a temperature between twenty
and twenty-six degrees Celsius, with frequent drizzle and a lot of
sunshine. The year consisted of three hundred days, so each month
had fifteen days, and every third day was the celebration of another
family. Oxygenvilles inhabitants were called Createds. They were
the successors of one hundred families or, if one wanted to put it
that way, one hundred tribes, the grandsons and great-grandsons
of those hundred families which, 1207 years ago, founded the
Oxygénia Trust. The founding had happened – as was to be read in
the short history summary – on a divine promise. The CEO, Mr.
Hart who would later become king Benefactor I, had a vision, and
on this godly inspiration he bought all areas in the middle of the
infested seas and continents which could still somehow be rescued.
By his genius, his energy, his excellent organizing talent he
gathered thousands and ten thousands of scholars, workers and
constructors and developed with them the blueprints of Oxygénia,
had it built according to his plans and founded the dynasty
Benefactor, and "that way created the happy life of the Hundred
Families and saved billions of beings from suffocation."
The history summary briefly indicated which advances had been
made in Oxygénia under the reign of the single monarchs.
Benefactor IV. had founded the Academy of Sciences, during the
reign of Benefactor V., greyhound races and encircling hunts had
been introduced... Here, Peter stopped short in his reading again.
Hunting? Greyhound races? So, accordingly, there actually were
animals in Oxygénia?
Amongst the celebrations of the Hundred Families, the first one
was the festivitiy of the royal family. In the pocket calendar was the
exact protocol for it: when the guests were to arrive, which clothes
were wished for, with which kind of flowers the girls were allowed to
decorate their hair and how deep the men had to bow. Also, the
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