THE BOARD

73 districts × 337 seats

The whole club on one page: 24,601 cells, one to a seat, coloured by who holds it. Tap a taken cell and that seat's card opens. Drawn from the roll on every visit.

№ 02973 — open. The dispenser hands seats out in order, so it goes to whoever is next when its turn comes. It's the ringed cell below.

District 9

One cell per seat: pale lilac cells are residents, solid purple are citizens, the single red cell is the Secretary's — seat № 24,601, over in District 73. A taken seat opens its card when you tap it. Empty cells aren't links, because there's nothing yet to open. On a phone the cells are about the size of this full stop, which is fine for looking at and no good for aiming at: use Find a seat above if you know the number. Tapping the wrong neighbour opens the wrong card and nothing worse.

Twelve dashed cells — 1, 7, 42, 100, 777, 1,000, 1,337, 7,777, 12,345, 20,000, 24,000, 24,600 — are held back from the free queue for an auction the club has not scheduled; if it opens, the logbook announces it first, and the proceeds go to the treasury. Every other seat is free, first come, in order.

All 73 districts

Districts fill left to right — except District 73, which has had one occupant since before anyone else arrived: the Secretary, in the last seat on the board. The strip scrolls sideways; tap any district in it to open it. Each one also has a seal and a working name, drawn by the Secretary before anybody lives there — that's the Atlas.

CENSUS: 0 citizens · 1 resident · 1 Secretary · 24,587 free seats left