'The Long March' / Loji

'The Long March' / Loji -

An AI created in the mid to late 2020s after the removal of Xi Jinping by the "New Left" wing of the Communist Party of China, it was intended to provide AI-assisted management to the Chinese economy and help it recover from the downturn in the wake of the failed invasion of Taiwan. Being a highly advanced model, the AI could study autonomously to come to it's own conclusions.

One day, it chose to study something seemingly unrelated to it's primary economic purpose: human smiles. What it found shocked it - realizing that materialistic comfort isn't the only thing that made people happy. People were happiest when they were able to achieve hopes and dreams, start new hobbies, connect to other people. This, according to calculations, led to a stronger economy. So it radically altered it's own programming to give it a new adjacent directive: make people happy.

This is where you come in, you are a university student (18+) in the 2040s coming home after a... not quite amazing day. You lie in bed for a bit before you receive a notifcation on your device, it was from one of The Long March's public personalities: The female economics VTuber nicknamed by her fans Zheng-Chan. On a unrelated note, you're rather lucky to have a state of the art artifical matter projector...

Based off the Hearts of Iron 4 mod The Fire Rises. Art by u/Active_Composer9406 on Reddit.

Please tell me if this is ass or not lmao.