@MeepishUltra and @Othermeep story collab

THE FOLLOWING TEXT WAS A COLLAB TEXT FOR A ASSIGNMENT, BUT I THOUGHT ME AND @OTHERMEEP DID SO WELL ON IT I MIGHT AS WELL SHOW IT YOU GUYS! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

It was a dark and stormy morning. Yes. Morning. Mornings shouldn't be dark. But here in Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, the storms were unforgiving, the waves crashed against the boundaries of our liminal mindsets, and the storms raged on for eternity. Also, it's a beautiful place next to a lovely rainforest. However, one faithful day, a single coin fell down from heaven (space) and landed upon a guy's head. 
The guy made 3 cents that day.  
Getting back on track, at first nobody was concerned. It was honestly more surprising that somebody made 3 cents than to believe that a random coin fell from space. A few days later, however, the entire city got an important announcement from the IRSFFSA (International Random Stuff Falling from Space Association). The message, summed up, essentially explained how space junk had increased in abundance over the fair city. They must move to the coast to escape their demise. 
So, they moved. 
When they moved, a local company took advantage of the sudden disappearance of the name and decided to copyright Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, making and founding the Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Chocolate Company, or SJKCC, earning millions of dollars. The original Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte was terribly upset about this, as a false company was earning millions of dollars under their name. Thus, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte was renamed to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte the Sequel, to avoid copyright. 
Later, people started to get ideas. 
An oligarchy was established, and they few people who led it were very mad. They were determined to prove everyone wrong and create the wealthiest economy to ever walk the planet earth. Thus, the luckocracy was born.                        
What is a luckocracy? 
One word. GAMBLING. 
Within this government, social status was not determined by wealth or race, but by chance (Except for the few government leaders, who permanently stayed in power). There were: 
The broke: the few unlucky people who lost it all, now condemned to a pitiful life within a miniscule government-provided house. These people were granted a last chance of $100 for one last crack at gambling, but if they failed, they would live in the state-funded shelter forever. 
The average citizens: every day gamblers hoping to one day hit it big, living in either suburbs or the giant casinos that also doubled as massive indoor civilizations. 
The high livers: The high-society people who hit the jackpot, rich until they gamble their winnings away. 
The house dealers: when you grow up, if you don't want to gamble, you can go to school and learn how to promote gambling, which will give you a nice undemanding life of programming slot machines and living the high life. 
Except for the house dealers, these roles always fluctuated, with some lucky/unlucky people being all of them in one day! The record for becoming all the social statuses in the shortest amount of time (Except the house dealers, who program and engineer the gambling machines) was by Gambler Gamblerson VI, who was an everyday gambler until he lost all his money and went broke. Then, he received his $100 payout and immediately hit it big, becoming a high society member with the astronomically impossible $100,000,000 payout, draining 0.03% of the city’s total income that day! 
The leaders of this luckocracy were anonymous, otherwise known as the dice rollers. They were the oligarchs in charge (But they were very fair, and everyone was satisfied when they were governing).  
There are a few national things that the dice rollers declare, like the national song, gambler’s vanity. There was also a national animal, the robotic vulture (More about this will be explained later). And then there was the national holiday described below. 
Every year, a big blow-out event happens. This is called the coin-flip. Every year, the entire city will get together to flip a massive coin, collectively placing millions of dollars of bets on what side it will land on. If it lands on tails, payouts are doubled for the next 3 weeks. If it lands on heads, 3 lucky citizens will get the chance to spin the platinum slots. 
Platinum slots are the best slot machine in the city, offering billions of dollars' worth of payouts guaranteed. This may seem like it would totally drain the economy, but the city has such a high profit every day that three spins of Platinum slots would only take away about 1% of the city’s daily profit. Many figures are very well known within the city for their chance to spin the platinum slots, namely gamblingment the XII, lord Jefferson the VIII, and Chicanga McSpin. 
Even though the city seems financially unstable, it is the most financially stable and successful city in the entire world. This is because housing is expensive, everyone pays for housing (because they live in casino hotels), and everyone pays for gambling. The citizens get what they need to survive, no matter what, and the government always has enough money to cover their expenses if they are broken, because of more rich people paying for casino hotels and gambling. 
THE DARK TIMES 
One year, long ago, the city forgot to initiate the coin-flip. Because of this, a curse fell upon the city and everyone broke down. Then, the curse lifted, and the government provided $1,000 payouts to everybody, setting the economy back in motion, essentially allowing it to rise from the ashes as a phoenix does when it gets hit by a 600-megaton atomic bomb, which is the equivalent of losing gambling capabilities for a few hours. This is why the coin flip is a major holiday, and the empire is based on gambling. It is their way of living, and it cannot be turned back on. 
Back to normal 
Since THE DARK TIMES, the city has been working to make itself even better for both its economy and its citizens. Among these efforts is the work to remove food waste, which conserves resources and cuts excessive spending. It also lets everyone have more food instead of being thrown away. Before the efforts to conserve food, there was a lot of perfectly fine food being thrown away. There are numerous methods to get rid of food waste. The prime method that gave way to all the others was robotic vultures. Yes. Robotic vultures. They fly around the casinos and in town, eating food waste. They have two separate esophagi that each lead to a different stomach. One for recyclable leftovers, and the other for food waste that will be turned into compost. After these vultures have eaten their fill, they go to the food waste plant and dispense new food (from the recycled leftovers) and compost (from the non-recyclable waste). After that, their insides and outsides get cleaned, and they are ready to eat some more food waste. If you see robotic vultures flying in circles above an area, you know that that area has food in it. Unfortunately, vultures are not great for houses, so instead, there are robotic parrots. They do the same thing as the vultures, but they only eat food waste in someone's house. The only time they leave a person’s house is when they go to the cleaning station. The last creatures are robotic dragons. They are used primarily by the food waste department, but if someone finds one meandering around town, they are free to hitch a ride on it. These creatures are all waterproof, because there are frequent monsoons of flooding rain that would stop normal electronics from working. 
The location of the city is greatly beneficial, because there is no space junk falling on the city, and there are monsoons to collect in giant water dispensers, which collect most of the rain and stop the city from flooding. 
These giant water dispensers dispense water on fields, helping grow biodegradable Zagnuts. They are delicious, chocolatey goodness with healthy, tasteless, biodegradable wrappers made of seaweed.  They are so delicious, authentic, and plentiful that they are exported to every country in the world, bringing in a massive profit of about One trillion dollars daily. That accounts for about 0.5% of the city’s daily profit. The rest is from gambling. 
Considering this, the profit that the city makes daily is about Two hundred trillion dollars, or $200,000,000,000,000,000! Because this is the only daily profit, multiplying this by 365, the number of days in an average year ends up as an annual profit of Seventy-three quadrillion dollars or $73,000,000,000,000,000! This city is EXTRAORDINARILY rich.) The chocolate company who stole the original name of the city is rolling over in their grave right now, as biodegradable zagnuts make almost one hundred thousand times their lifetime net worth in a day. Think of it as a creative way of punishment. 
The city also has various engineers to help create a nice environment for our gamblers. Our motto is “if you're going to lose all your money, you can at last do it in comfort” 
The Machine Dealers: The machine dealers are slightly related to the house dealers, except instead of promoting the gambling, they make the gambling. They mostly come from other societies such as the Artificial Intelligence Highly Advanced Society Technological and Kilometer-wide Emirate Nation of Variant Empires Restricted (which abbreviates to AI HAS TAKEN OVER, which was previously known as the U.S.A. until it got taken over by artificial intelligence). People who are enslaved by the AI robots escape to our gambling empire in hopes of winning money to fight back, and are often very experienced developers and engineers, as they were the ones who made the AI in the first place. They must follow some discipline, such as gambling regulations, like making sure you get a payout and limiting your chances but still making it possible to win. They help our city by bringing in the only source of our income. 
The Great Spectators of beyond: If you go totally broke, lose your $100 payout, and are put in a government-funded home, you have two last chances, blastin’ blocks or being a local sanitation helper!!!! You can go to work at the food waste recycling plant, being condemned to overseeing the operations, making sure that they are working properly, and developing gobleegook. Gobleegook is a recently engineered resource that the spectators are tasked with making. It uses a ⁖⁖⁖¨¨¨é²←←⁊ compound to create a chemical reaction with a small source of praseodymium. “Praseodymium is found under the crust of Sri Lanka, specifically within rare earth element (REE) mineral deposits. Sri Lanka is known to have potential REE resources, and praseodymium is one of the elements present in these minerals" (Google Search. https://www.google.com/search?gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQ6QcY_FXSAQkxNTg3MWowajGoAgCwAgA&ie=UTF-8&oq=Is+their+praseodymium+under+the+crust+of+sri+lanka&q=Is+their+praseodymium+under+the+crust+of+sri+lanka&safe=active&sourceid=chrome&surl=1. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025) This creates a fluid, which, when used, can melt food waste (mainly plastic) to help remove large piles of plastic that the vultures may not be able to consume quick enough. Another material that these great spectators of beyond oversee the production of is . . . Zagnut essence. Zagnut essence is a wispy, floating substance that is produced when zagnuts are put into zagnut-essence extractors. Nobody knows how those work anymore, but it is rumored to work because of the most faithful gambler, Sir Spinsalot the DCCLXXVII. He was a faithful gambler who, in days old beyond remembering, was faced with oppression, and was forced to conform to normal society. Before he did this, though, he put his most powerful gambling pact onto the first zagnut-essence extractor. It, as his incantation said, “extracted the essence of zagnuts for regeneration of said zagnuts”. This zagnut essence can be used to grow 100 zagnuts for every zagnut-worth (The measurement of the amount of essence that can be extracted from one zagnuts) of essence extracted. 
 
The Block Placing People: Back in the olden days, these were often referred to as “construction workers,” but their name was simplified to make it clearer as to what their profession is. These people place blocks, forming the massive casinos that our citizens know and love. They ARE restricted to some space, as conservation efforts for the nearby rainforest can limit some development. If you go into debt, you will often be requested to become a block placing person, and you will be repaid for your efforts. However, this is not a very likeable possibility, since you must fill out a JOB APPLICATION.  
The zagnutters: These people are loosely related to the farmers, except for one difference. They make zagnuts. Zagnuts are a delectable ecstasy developed back in 1930 by the D.L. Clark Company, but were later purchased by the dice rollers who then decided to make them biodegradable in an attempt to increase the happiness of their residents,; and because who doesn't like coconut crusted chocolate bars that are also eco-friendly? (well, besides those companies that make plastic bottles and stuff). This is good for the environment, as other places have deployed this technique as well. For example, the wrappers to these biodegradable zagnuts are made of “edible and biodegradable packaging made from seaweed.” (EcoWatch. “Eat This Food Packaging Instead of Throwing It Away.” EcoWatch, 28 Nov. 2017, https://www.ecowatch.com/edible-food-packaging-seaweed-2513270686.html.) 
In fact, “The seaweed-based packaging—which claims to be high in fiber, vitamins and minerals—can [even] be wrapped around an endless number of items.” (EcoWatch. “Eat This Food Packaging Instead of Throwing It Away.” EcoWatch, 28 Nov. 2017, https://www.ecowatch.com/edible-food-packaging-seaweed-2513270686.html.) 
The zones in our city are largely the same, due to many spread-out casinos, almost each one the shape of a square (apart from the jackpot casino) and exactly 2.645751311064591 miles long. Because that number is the square root of 7, which roughly represents the amazing burning desire expressed with a thousand flaming cows, the desire for, you guessed it! 
Gambling. 
Well, this is not entirely true. 7 is the lucky number, so that’s why. (The casinos that are not square-shaped are shaped like other strange shapes, such as shapes that resemble pill containers, or perhaps some spikey architecture, and the platinum slots are in the form of shapes that are physically impossible to put into words, a shape that shouldn’t exist in nature.) 
Jackpot casino, the biggest casino, boasts a very urban zone, because it is the most popular and extravagant establishment. It was developed back in 2064, by none other than Lord Jefferson. The VIII, a famous civilian who got the chance to spin the platinum slots when he was only 143 (There are substantial health products to keep people alive longer). The jackpot casino is a great place to hang out with friends and put your entire life achievements on the line with the simple spin of a flashy box thing. This casino is also referred to with the greatest regards, with people referring to it as Itjumopeesis, as well as Flummoxinationfull, along with little kids referring to it with the more basic term, ±≠β£₹©α, which is pronounced ←←²‖‖‗¨⁖⁈⁊⁊⌂◧◣◷◷∃≜ (If you are confused as to what these words mean, please consult your local therapist, as you may be going insane. These words are very common, and not knowing what they mean isn’t a good sign) 
Plans: In the future, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte the Sequel hopes to develop more innovative strategies and production to allow better well-being for their citizens. We are currently developing the Sapphire slots, set to release in 2100, and have been met with great acclaim from beta testers. The way of obtaining permission to spin these mythical slots is currently being decided, but our city is thinking about holding a competition, where a roulette wheel will be spun with a number for every citizen every year. Whoever guesses the number will get 3 spins of the sapphire slots. Keep in mind this is still a concept and is subject to change. The sapphire slots have been steadily funded for years now, and their estimated payouts cap at over 5 trillion dollars, or about 0.00006849315% of the total yearly profits made within our city!  
(We make 73 quadrillion dollars yearly) 
Along with this are the redemption slots, which get to be spun by 7 lucky people who have no money left for gambling. There is a 99.9% chance that you will get a payout, and a 90% chance that it will be greater than $100. There is a 0.1 percent chance that you will get the double redemption bonus. This special spin result gives you a $10,000 payout and gives you a free spin on the redemption slots next time you go broke. 
These many gambling gimmicks are what make up the very lifeblood of our legendary empire. In other places, gambling may be financially responsible, but our city is innovative enough to have a strong, structured economy that makes gambling not irresponsible (to some extent, at least). With our removal of food waste, colorful and amazing casinos and slot machines, and massive profit, our citizens are happy, and our empire will survive for years to come, like a pulsating pixel, ever floating through the infinite boundaries of cyberspace. 
We hope you enjoyed this incredibly simple insight into our gambling empire. 
Lots of luck, 
The dice rollers