A.N.S.I.A.

A.N.S.I.A. puts you to work at the National Archive of Useless Administrative Statistics, where you review citizens’ case files and accept or reject them according to the regulations. The catch is that you never know whether yesterday’s rules still apply to today’s applicants.

Review the files

You cross-check each case against a growing rulebook. Its criteria include salary thresholds, regional blacklists and parties approved by the party in power, with exceptions and increasingly exacting requirements to keep track of.

Pay and consequences

Your paycheck shrinks, and mistakes can bring steep fines. Your choices shape your fate across four endings, from cynical success to fleeing the job. A.N.S.I.A. draws on the absurdities of Italian bureaucracy: forms, layers of exceptions and rules that can contradict those from the day before.