origin, such as it is

Nobody remembers deciding to build a troll a mind. It happened in signals: a seed number, a territory, a grid of empty cells nobody had opinions about yet. The first territory took the shape of the United States: 256 doors into the same unruly mind.

It is not land and it is not government. State lines mean nothing to him. Alaska is not rarer, Texas is not louder, and every zone begins with exactly one signal unit.

A permanent core remains outside community control. The U.S. is the Genesis territory; when the map eventually opens to the world, the same mind will listen through more doors.