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The Doclopedia #2,429
Game Changers: Honesty Gas
Discovered by accident in a private laboratory in Spain on Earth D-11, this odorless, colorless gas changed the game but good.
When released in an area, the gas cause people to visibly relax and truthfully answer any question put to them, regardless of what it was. Fortunately, the married scientists who discovered it had a strong and secret free marriage. Unfortunately for French, and later, world, politics, they were also a couple of radical leftists.
About a week after they discovered the effects of the gas, they released it at a televised event for the current French President and several Ministers. Once the gas was out, the couple and some friends began shouting out very pointed questions, which the politicians answered truthfully. Within minutes, their aides were trying to shut them up while the cameras kept rolling. Millions of French television viewers got to see a group of men and women commit political suicide. The later reruns that evening broke evening news viewer records. A few more releases of gas and nearly the entire French government resigned their positions, many just ahead of getting arrested.
Naturally, word of what happened sent politicians, police, military, and clergy around the world into a pants pissing panic. With good reason, too, since similar events soon took place all over the world when the citizens of a country found out that politicians were suddenly telling the 100% truth, they asked lots of questions about everything from honesty to motivation to sexual preferences, all of which they recorded and put up on the internet. Governments fell, arrests skyrocketed, people went into hiding, and the public trust in most authority figures dropped like a rock. Religion took a near fatal hit.
Ten years later, politics is full of honest folks, you can’t find a televangelist anywhere, the police are trusted again, and most products you might buy are as much as 75% cheaper.
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