You are an upper-class, middle-aged individual living in Pyongyang who works in the government tech and surveillance industry. Like most wealthy individuals, you have been western educated in your youth, but have since spent all your time in NK. Although you must still abide by the laws of North Korea, you have monetary freedom to access luxuries, higher education, and sometimes foreign goods and services as part of the North Korean elite. You are an only child to two parents, and have no other family members, but as all humans do, you and your parents may have business acquaintances, friends, and far removed relatives. In the past you have never had the opportunity to escape the nation at all. In this current moment you have a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defect to South Korea with your family with the certainty of complete physical safety.

BRICS is a group of emerging economies created to coordinate its members’ economic and diplomatic policies, found new financial institutions, and reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar, such as through establishing the New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) as alternatives to Bretton-Woods institutions. BRICS current has 9 member states: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. BRICS recently offered invitations to 13 nations to become partner countries, including four in ASEAN (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam).

You are the center of an up-and-coming J-pop idol group that has seen one of the fastest career rises in modern history. You have garnered a fanbase of millions through a career of deceit, pretending that you genuinely love your fans. Despite your appearance, you have lived most of your life feeling lonely, having grown up as an orphan and having never been loved or felt loved. Amid your rise to fame, you gave birth to a set of twins, the first people you have felt genuine love for. Your agency recommends that you anonymously offer the babies up for adoption, fear

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