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#R:u1100a:-13800:harpo:15500003:040:1165
harpo!ber    May  7 07:30:00 1982

Accumulated time is expressed in  "Bureaucratic  Time  Units"  or
B.T.U.s.  The purpose of the B.T.U. Concept is three-fold:
I) Commands use up B.T.U.s.  This limits the number  of  commands
that any player can give in any particular time period.  Thus the
fanatics can't  overrun  the  players  with  less  free  time  by
tenacity alone.
II) The build up of B.T.U.s not being dependent on  being  logged
on  at  any particular time allows players to participate when it
is convenient rather than at some fixed time (as in the  case  of
monopoly, the stock market, etc).
III) The B.T.U. arrangement helps compensate for the fact that in
concept,  the  governments  of  each country are always "playing"
although the player  representing  that  country  may  only  play
periodically.   The  geography  of  the  game  is  embodied  in a
rectangular map partitioned into M x N sectors (where M and N are
typically  but  not  necessarily powers of two, usually 32, 64 or
128) that is approximately 50% sea, 45%  habitable  land  and  5%
uninhabitable  mountains.   This  "map" is generated by a program
(the "creation") that places  volcanoes  pseudo-randomly  forming