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The province

The province view is the simulation, live: Unity Province with every resident on the map, a clock you control, the person or place you pick in an inspector, and the analytics along the bottom. Press Ctrl+1 (or Province in the top bar) to come back to it from the workbench.

The province view

Unity Province on a Saturday morning: Emmaus to the north-west, Newhaven to the north-east, Ithemba to the south, Unity Centre between them and the airport to the south-east, joined by roads and the Hyperline. The analytics strip runs along the bottom.

The screen at a glance

Part Where What it does
Top bar Along the top The view switch, the clock, play and pause, the speed, the Exports chip, the model chip, Settings and Help.
Left panel Left, closed at first; [ Scenario & basis (the assumptions, and Rebuild province), the Households and People lists, and the Events ledger.
The map The middle The province: zoom from the whole of it down into a house, and past the rooms into the 3D close-up.
Inspector Right, closed at first; ] Whoever or whatever you selected: a person, a household, a building, a conversation.
Analytics strip Along the bottom Sixteen tiles of headline figures; each opens its part of the analytics drawer.

Both side panels start closed so the province has the whole window. The buttons just under the top bar, at each panel's corner, open them, and the app remembers your choice. Selecting something does not open the inspector by itself: press ] once and it stays open.

The top bar

From left to right:

Control What it does
The C₀.₁ mark The app and its version.
Province · Workbench Switches views (Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2).
The clock The date, the time and today's weather. Click it to set the scene: jump to a moment, a date or a season, or force the weather. A forced badge shows when the weather is forced.
Rewind Rebuilds the province at day 0 on the same seed and basis.
Play / pause Space. The province starts paused.
Step Pauses and moves on one simulated hour.
Speed From real time to a year a second; keys 1 to 0. A field beside it takes any number of simulated years a minute. See Time and the clock.
Exports The province's data with its provenance, and importing a mortality table. Reads Exports · basis while the province lives on a table of your own or a stress. See Exports and data.
The model chip The language model that scripts conversations, and the dialogue mode. Click it for Settings. Its light shows whether a model is ready, is writing, or cannot be reached.
Settings, Help Settings (Ctrl+, in the desktop app) and the in-app help (?).