Compulsory Vacation
It has come to the awareness of Friend Computer that Clones function better if they are periodically allowed a vacation, enabling them to forget all their problems for a time. Since Friend Computer is urgently desirous that everyone be happy, Friend Computer has argued that every Clone periodically take a Compulsory Vacation.
Consultation of Old Reckoning Archives has indicated that in the past, Clones were typically alloted two weekcycles vacation a year, so Friend Computer has determined that each Clone will be alloted one Weekcycle Vacation every six months; once beginning on his Decanting day, and once six months after that.
Every Sector is required to maintain Compulsory Recreation and Vacation Resort facilities for its clones; higher clearance clones often have the opportunity to travel to special resorts reserved for high clearance personel in other sectors.
What follows is a brief listing of some typical possibilities for Compulsory Recreation and Vacation facilities in the average sector:
- Infrared -- A camping trip to a devastated sector with free scavenging privileges (so long as your security clearance is not violated), A weeks' vacation to one of HPD & MC's experimental dormitories, where new sleeping technologies and foods are tested, a week long transfer to Red Clearance Food Production with Snacking Rights, A week's stay in an Infrared Dorm with actual functional vending machines which are stocked...at the start of the week, anyway.
- Red -- A week's stay in an Orange dorm undergoing repairs, A camping trip to a devastated sector with free scavenging privileges (so long as your security clearance is not violated), a simple week off with no work where you can just hang around the Red Entertainment Centre and watch Vids Until Your Eyes Bleed, your yearly medical checkup, followed by a week's recovery time
- Orange -- Six days of standing in line, followed by one day of boat riding on the ship channel, a week's stay in a Yellow dorm undergoing repairs, A camping trip to a devastated sector with free scavenging privileges (so long as your security clearance is not violated), Six days of waiting in line, followed by one day of getting to visit something of historical or entertainment interest in another sector
- Yellow -- Three days of standing in line followed by a day's riding around on a boat in the ship channel followed by three days' recovery from motion sickness, Five days of standing in line followed by two days at a Yellow Recreation Resort, A camping trip to a devastated sector with free scavenging privileges (so long as your security clearance is not violated), Three days of standing in line, followed by a two day vacation in another sector, followed by two days of trying to get home after your transportation home malfunctions, A Day Long game of Laser Tag, followed by six days medical care
- Green -- A camping trip to a devastated sector with free scavenging privileges (so long as your security clearance is not violated), a game of Bake the Infrared Traitor, a trip to GAM sector to compete on Game shows, a three day cruise on the Ship Channel, three days' standing in line, followed by four days at a Green Recreation Resort, a five day vacation in another sector, A week of Laser Tag and Medical Care,
- Blue -- A week's stay in the Blue Recreation Resort(which may not be in your sector), a day's standing in line to get on a five day cruise in the Ship Channel, a Week's camping trip in OUT sector, A camping trip to a devastated sector with free scavenging privileges (so long as your security clearance is not violated), a Game of Bake the Red Traitor, a trip to GAM sector to compete on Game shows, a week long stay with the military in which one is allowed to play around with High-Clearance Military Equipment
- Indigo -- A week's stay in an Indigo Recreation Resort (which may not be in your sector), a week's cruise on a Cruise Liner, a three day stay at a resort in OUT sector, a week long stay with the military in which one is allowed to play around with High-Clearance Military Equipment, a Game of Bake the Orange Traitor, a trip to GAM sector to compete on Game shows, a two day Harem Pass
- Violet -- A week's stay in a Violet Recreation Resort (which may not be in your sector), a week's cruise on a Violet-Clearance Cruise Liner, a five day stay at a resort in OUT sector, a week long stay with the military in which one is allowed to play around with High-Clearance Military Equipment, a Game of Bake the Yellow Traitor, a trip to GAM sector to compete on Game shows, a four day Harem Pass
- Ultraviolet -- It is probably hard to distinguish between the normal lives of Ultraviolets and their vacations.
Recreation resorts exist for all clearances, but at the lowest clearances, by the time you get permission to go, your vacation is over. They typically consist of recreation facilities coupled with housing and food equivalent to that enjoyed by one higher clearance level than yours.