THE SUPERBLOC

OVERDUE NOTICES, DELINQUENT BILLS... UNTHINKABLE IN THE SUPERBLOC!

"I've never lived anywhere else, so I can't say. I suppose there's the Superbloc, but they signed Latour-Woolgar as well..."

It's a common joke that the Opera have preemptively bugged all public phones to spare the Superbloc's citizens the awkwardness of uncertainty.

"The metaphysical superweapon is in our hands, courtesy of a kind-spirited citizen of the Superbloc. Soon, it will help us strike a decisive blow and unmake our enemy from the inside."

"Have you thought of going over to the Superbloc?"

"The metaphysical superweapon is in our hands, courtesy of an iodine-deficient pawn of the Superbloc. Soon, it will help us strike a decisive blow and unmake our enemy from the inside."

"Nestor began his career on the promise of 'full communism' for Portofiro. He was desperate to join the Superbloc -- the Party was seriously entertaining his request."

"If the plan was for Portofiro to join the Superbloc, then why did we want to zero out Nestor?"

"It was determined that Portofiro wasn't yet 'ideologically prepared' to join the Superbloc. Nestor did not handle the rejection well. Needless to say, the gun was jumped."

"Did the Superbloc try to blow up Sweet Nestor during treaty negotiations?"

"Unfortunately, the Luzians are far less willing to enter negotiations with the Superbloc than Nestor was back in the day. But perhaps you can use this as a point of inspiration."

"With Nestor at the helm, Portofiro would always have held itself apart from the rest of the Superbloc. Unacceptable for a member-state." She clicks her tongue.

"So, Portofiro was almost part of the Superbloc?"

"Did the Superbloc try to blow up Sweet Nestor during treaty negotiations?"

It has become so closely associated with 'cool' that desert motifs have become popular even in the Superbloc.

"He initially informed me he was a sock importer with the Superbloc. Then he said he'd been pretending to be someone else all day, and that it hadn't gotten him anywhere at all."

"In the Superbloc, we prefer beige."

"They had delusions of flying it all the way to the Superbloc once they'd completed their aims, but in true revolutionary tradition, they didn't think that one through. Domestic flight -- domestic fuel load."

"I don't really know anything about the Superbloc, but I know from history class that communists are always scheming something."

"So eventually I dropped out of college and followed her to the Superbloc. And slowly, too slowly, realised that communists don't believe the world can, or should change. And if you cannot change it, CASCADE... then interpreting it holds no meaning."

"... you see, the Superbloc is going for the moral victory condition..."

"Just one question, before you scurry back to your masters: Will it be you escorting me to the Superbloc? Or should I --"

"EMTERR vultures will fund hospitals and homes for the indigent. Then we'll accept technical advisors from the Superbloc, use their expertise to develop our own private sector industries."

"You're from the Superbloc."

Such culture is hard to come by in the Superbloc. He may have been 'feeling it out'.

By default, yes, thanks to the sheer landmass of the Superbloc.

"... to ask why the Operant Bureau exists at all is to ask the same of the Superbloc -- and to confront our place within it. A constellation of intents, betrayals, and ideals, the whole of which can never be witnessed.'

"It's a long way back to the Superbloc. You'll have plenty of time to reflect on all this en route."

THE ONLY PARTY GAMES RECOGNISED IN THE SUPERBLOC ARE PURGES AND SHOW TRIALS.

"He would've been new in town. From the Superbloc."

"You should get involved in the Superbloc's seventy hour work week. Optimum balance, very little downside."

"Move to the Superbloc. We don't care for international standards."

First to reach orbit, with the Cosmo-Future Initiative's inaugural launch in 51. Capoblanco followed in 54. By then, the Superbloc had close-up photographs of the lunar surface.