So you think you are an Imperial citizen... (WIP)

If you are...
- You're familiar with just about anything related to Anime popular culture, enough to go into details; and the trendiest JHK drama series at any given time.
- You know how baseball is played. At school, you were taught about all ball-related sports and martial arts.
- You get some days off from Christmas to New Year, some days off during either Setsubun or Lunar New Year, a few during each of the Golden Weeks, and a few during Bon Festival. Not that you hate working.
- Natural disasters? What are those?
- You're not fundamentally religious, since you live in rather secular societies. Whatever religion you belong to, you don't actively practice it. You are likely to have your coming-of-age ceremonies in a Shinto shrine, get married in a Christian church, and have funerals in a Buddhist pagoda.
- Your life is comfortable thanks to Lifewave technology. Your place is heated when cold, and air-conditioned when hot - seasonal changes are not the only factor for that. Your house has its own bathroom (without the toilet) and restroom (only with the toilet), separated from each other. Sinks are everywhere.
- You do your laundry however you like, but usually not by hand. You don't have a dirt floor.
- You either eat at a table sitting on chairs, or at a low table sitting on mattresses laid on the floor mats.
- Everyone knows how to use kitchen utensils, from forks to chopsticks.
- You frown upon meat-eating: most of the weekly "meat" you consume are intentionally-modified vegetables designed to resemble real meat. Your food likely consists of mostly vegetables and vegan foods.

What works, eh...?
- Railroads, auto manufacturers, and airlines are usually run by this SS Apeirocorp. They're everywhere, naturally - everything from your food to your clothes have them written all over!
- The train system is excellent - you use them to get to almost anywhere.
- You contact others with your Lifewave screens.
- You usually only care about politics at the galactic level at most. You can get further, but you'll start cracking our own brain by then.
- You don't think in terms of race. They're humans, or candidates to become humans.
- The Imperial culture is diverse, and you're proud of it.
- You usually can speak at least two languages. You can start gaining a position in planetary politics with six languages. Not that you have to need them to succeed.
- You believe in a strong court system, which is usually fast and effective.
- You couldn't care less about the 75% tax rates; because everything's so cheap. Logically, you would wonder why the price is always so cheap, but then you'd shrug and take that fact for granted.
- You don't die from diseases unless they're very new and resilient.
- You think a lot of problems could be solved if only people would work to put aside (and/or even abandon) their prejudices, work hard together, and have respect for everyone including themselves.

Can't read own T-shirt, bleh!
- You would respect someone speaking a language you do not know, at which time you will have to rely on the translator of your Lifewave screen.
- Learning other languages is a good thing.
- If you're female, learning flower-arranging and tea ceremony is also a good thing.
- Education is free, unless you attend private schools - where the fees you pay are negligible if they exist at all.
- There are plenty of good colleges and universities, so don't rush yourself too much.

Big Brother Protects
- Mustard comes as a paste in plastic tubes or in powdered form in cans, as does wasabi. Shaving cream comes in cans. Milk comes in cartons or bottles.
- It's era year/month/date, for example: BC 660/02/11 (and you know what happened on that date).
- You are taught that the Emperor of the Imperium is God. You don't know his name, and you don't see this guy anywhere, but from what you've heard, you do have a certain level of respect for him - though not so much. And there's only one Emperor since the founding of the Imperium.
- The decimal point is a dot (in most places).
- The Imperium primarily follows two number naming schemes, giving new names every three digits as per the European scheme or every four digits as per the Eastasian scheme.
- Marriages aren't really that important; when you happen to wrong your partner rather badly, a government official will make sure to drag you away to question you without the need of a marriage license. They otherwise won't interfere in any way though.
- You couldn't care less about sexualities of other people, and neither does your government; as long as they aren't rapists, they're free to go about their business.
- You call people by their family name, except for your own superiors and important people. The only people you can call by their first names are little children, your siblings, cousins, friends from early childhood, and people you met in bars. You tend to use honorifics after names, except certain long-time friends and your younger siblings.
- If you're a woman and you go topless to the beach, you have two options: find something online, and fast; or make sure you are traveling with another person, and find a cave.
- A hotel room has private baths. Traditional inns have cavernous public baths - whether they have private ones are optional.
- Cultural imperialism is nonsense, and you know it.
- If you're someone well-versed in politics, you expect corrupt politicians to be silently and swiftly purged.
- If a politican has been cheating on his wife, you might start to question his IQ.
- A company will usually not fire their own employees. Usually.

There are no such things as foreign nations
- You're usually taught about the most recent four millennia of the planet you're on.
- You were taught of the catastrophes brought about by the major wars that affected the Imperium; and you know best to avoid conflict when not necessary.
- Foreign nations? What are those? ... in other words, they either joined the Imperium or haven't joined the Imperium.
- You admire the military forces to a certain degree; especially Knightly Orders.

Amazon: either part of the far past or a jungle
- Anyone can appear on the most popular talk shows.
- Gossip is considered something to drive away boredom.
- Manga and other Anime-related goodies are everywhere, and everyone watches them. None lets them dominate their lives completely though - they know better.
- You're used to a wide variety of choices for everything you buy.
- You use the metric system. You occasionally use feet and inches to talk about height, but you rarely care otherwise.
- You're a farmer-of-love. Your house may usually be self-sufficient in terms of food.
- You drive on whichever side of the road that local law tells you to. You stop at red lights even if nobody's around. If you're a pedestrian and cars are stopped at a red light, you will fearlessly cross the street in front of them.
- You consider cars to take up a bit too much space.
- The police are armed. What they are armed with is another story.
- If a woman is plumper than the average, it doesn't improve her looks. Being tall doesn't help either, since men don't like women to be taller than themselves. A woman with a curvaceous body will attract men's eyes, of course, but it isn't too essential.
- Men do not like being fat or bald - or both. Having some muscles is a good-enough point - having them like a bodybuilder is not.
- The biggest meal of the day is in the evening.
- There are parts of the city you might want to avoid if not accompanied by certain authorities or a knowledgeable local.