"- a politics section started existing between these two issues..." Does the previous issue have one retroactively now.

It sure does!

"Hmm? What like the section got removed from the paper at some point or like they only recently added it?"

"Like the newspaper retroactively changed. Here's the politics section from the first Wednesday, which didn't have one before I re-checked just now."

"...did we just cause a newspaper section to—what—how?"

"I don't know." Is there an economics section.

There isn't.

She writes down that there isn't an economics section and then she Siimgles the stock market.

She can find stuff! A Simpedia article on it and a couple of websites with index trackers and a couple of news websites.

Is her paper one of them?

It sure is!

Has her note changed?

No, it still says what she wrote.

She reports these findings to Peter.

Peter has been chewing on a knuckle while reading something on his phone but looks up and nods at her report. "And I still don't know the name of our mayor or governor or president and I'm starting to think it may be a thing like the way we don't have real parents—but the office seems to take actions..."

"Do you reckon one of us could just move in?"

"How do you mean?"

"I don't know how. But if nobody is currently in fact the mayor...

I don't know what you'd even do with it though."

"I'm pretty sure there are meant to be elections, when is the next election..." Tap tap tap. "—the next election is next week. There are—where did you say you worked again?"

"The San Myshuno Chronicle."

"Yep, this is them alright, talking about the election next week, which very definitely was not something you found when you were looking for it five minutes ago?"

"Yep. Nor has it come up around the water cooler. Who's running?"

"Three different people—uh, Gordon Peralta, Julie Rymand, and Bianca Faltham—but apparently candidates have until this coming Saturday to make themselves known or withdraw from the race and then have the following week to campaign and the actual election is on the next Satuday. You know, I kind of don't want to look up state and presidential elections up because it would be such a headache to have all three of them happen to occur at the same time."

"It would, yeah. Do you want to be mayor? I don't especially but..."

"I absolutely do not, and given our slowed aging rate I figure we have time to decide if we want to spend a while being whatever that means in this weirdass video-game world. Especially since it seems like everything was running... fine... without the explicit existence of a mayor's office up until now."

"What do mayors... do?"