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Originally Posted by jason taylor
If the inhabitants are paid to be guinea pigs or aspiring rulers in their plebe stage the population might think it fair play. Arbitrarily choosing a city as a testbed would have to be covered up.
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This reminds me of the towns that get used for test-marketing, because their populations match the distribution of the target population. In the UK, this was Swindon (may still be, I don't know). Apparently the numbers started to diverge from the population of the UK as a whole, because the inhabitants of Swindon had got used to lots of free samples, new product launches, etc., all the time, and were no longer impressed by them…