PlayCorp Union: “Don’t grow up — it’s powerless.”

yuxi
Jun 23
3 min read

Updated: Aug 20

Play is power. Leap into energy; never land.

A Short History of Power

Power has not always looked the same.

In the earliest clans it flowed from giving life and meaning: birth, food, language.

Agriculture shifted authority to those who owned land; the Industrial Age handed it to those who controlled machines and grids.

Now a fourth migration is under way. In the era of kinetic governance, power returns to the body — yet not the disciplined adult body of labour, but the child body of play. Jumping, sliding, swinging, shouting, laughing all release energy that can be captured and shared. A playground becomes an engine-room; childhood, an energy infrastructure.

Declaration of Kinetic Childhood

Children are not the future of society — they are its energy infrastructure.

PlayCorp Union rejects the logic that maturity and rigidity define value; that logic, it argues, is already a corpse drained of energy.

Welcome to the Union

Under Section 42-A of the National Energy Citizenship Act, every resident is graded by a Playability Quotient (PLQ).

Children, thanks to superior kinetic capacity, enter at Tier 1; adults must earn civic rights through verified acts of recreational labour and emotional output.

A citizen’s Energy Passport, badge set and provisional access to the Reproductive Eligibility Assessment Scheme are issued at onboarding. All behaviour is archived in the Central Energy Records Bureau.

To generate is to belong. To play is to serve. Welcome home.

Instruments of Kinetic Governance

Playability Quotient (PLQ) — wattage becomes voice; the more you generate, the louder your say.
Energy Passport — lights up a grid cell with every completed game.
Neo-Child Certification — adults clear sanctioned play quests before they may vote, own property, or reproduce.
Energy-Quota Reproduction (EQR) — parenthood is licensed by sustained behavioural-energy output.

Origins: Happypower → Play-State

A wall-less playground, built for children without papers, survived a typhoon when the city grid failed. Swinging bodies kept the lights on and birthed Happypower — sensors, turbines, and praise economies that migrated from disaster zones to schools and streets.

2045: behavioural energy overtakes mechanical sources in public space.

2047: children out-generate the entire adult gym economy.

2049: the first Play-State is proclaimed, its constitution shouted not signed:

“We do not grow up. We power up.”

The Five Kinetic Officials

Jumpie — Bounce Marshal

Tracks the city’s real-time PLQ with endless hopping, stomp-buttons, and vertical power tests.

Charger — Power Kid

Embodies “every motion counts” — cycling dynamos, rowing rigs, lever-pull sprints.

IDee — Neo-Child Inspector

Guards the civic gateway; passport stamping and green-light / red-light access control.

Badgey — Emblem Chancellor

Awards wattage-ranked privileges; medal raising, star scattering, ceremonial coin tosses that trigger light shows.

Zapzap — Energy Sprout

Symbol of untamed Tier-0 flux; erratic sparks and cry-laugh oscillations.

Together they turn bureaucracy into playground equipment — rules you can ride, push, or jump on.

Join the Movement

Jumpers, Neo-Children, campuses, parks, researchers, policy-shapers — and children themselves — are invited to co-engineer the Play-State.

A limited Activity Pack (Energy Passport, Neo-Child ID, PLQ badges, Charter sheet, task list, sticker set) doubles as souvenir and entry visa. Your joyful identity deserves illumination.