Sybersum

Sybersum is the common name for the Kayan government that manage and direct the Kayan economy. Developed by the Entrenched Bureaucracy during the 1970s it has evolved from a  to a multifaceted interlinked computer system measuring all medium and above level economic activity, desires and other economic factors, as well as running simulations and prediction protocols. The concept was initially proposed in the 1930s as a Universal Machine to assist the with early  employed to manage the increasingly complex economy. Today the human calculators of the Entrenched Bureaucracy serve primarily as technicians and scientists as part of Sybersum systems.

Sybersum consists of x modules; an economic simulator,, , a national ,. The economics police also serve to enforce the economic laws and protocols as outlined and prescribed by the Sybersum supercomputers.

Name
The name Sybersum is a portmanteau of the Anglic “cybernetics” and “sum” as in addition.

History
A with in which the notion of  was one of the principles that the Kayan Revolution was based upon. At the time this was attempted to be realised via broad planning from the national government with directives and orders managed at the local level. The Entrenched Bureaucracy, reformed following the revolution, saw this as part of their to the people and Harmonious Society and invented the notion of the human calculator. These people were atypical of the communal societies developing but seemed to poses an with numeracy and calculations and with training in special schools were able to out perform entire  of bureaucrats. Like the other of the Entrenched Bureaucracy of the time, these human calculators were forced to undertake  and  in order to deny worldly claims and desires and work for the  of society. They quickly grew to be among the most respected of their brethren, and were known for having the hardest civil service examinations of any governmental role.

By the 1900s it was realised that the rising of not just the  national economy but the external economies was becoming too much for even the human calculators to make sense of. It was the. Blah blah, mechanical computers. But what if they were bigger? Like, an entire room. I bet it could calculate anything. But can we make enough ball bearings….

Computers. Digitise. Automated. Infiltrated into your life.

The 1970s saw the first implementation of on a national scale, as a series of mainframes linked to 800  machines. Using and, the early implementation of Sybersum was able to take data from factories (including material input, production output, absentees) which was then used to make short term predictions and adjustments across the manufacturing processes. A was used with four levels of control in order to remedy problems that arose and were only escalated if unable to be addressed at a level, in theory allowing a certain level of  and less top down command and control as exemplified by the Teutonian. The data created and gathered was then presented and discussed in the operations centre and top level plans were created, as directed by human calculators according to the ideals of the Harmonious Society. As time went on, and computer technology improved, more and more decisions were experimented with allowing the computers themselves to decide on the actions required. Around this time the human calculators also started a project to create an artificial adviser- a (Project EDA).

By the mid 1980s specialised were being installed alongside and in place of telex machines, allowing a greater transfer of data, and allowing a greater request/confirm/questioning and more detailed dissemination of data back and forth from factories and workplaces, and the Sybersum computing networks. With the increased of the Sybersum systems, and growing  (which piggybacked off the copper lines laid down for Sybersum), the government laid out a project in 1988 for a nation wide ‘’’’ intranet to both foster tech development and  the Sybersum copper network. Syberspace allowed citizens to send and receive information from digital, share their , send , and even book appointments for special services. Kayan universities greatly supported the concept of Syberspace and began hosting their own boards and other sites that users could.

By the 1990s the copper telephone lines carrying the Sybersum data began to be replaced by and optical amplification systems across the country, with the national  following. The Sybersum systems continued to expand and cover more aspects of the economy. In 1999 the Sybersum system predicted a violent reaction to the crack down on the Epangelic Church on child protection grounds, this prediction was at the time as it was not a purely economical observation and thus outside the preview of the program.

In 2019 Sybersum synthetic intelligence composed its own theme song.

Popular culture
Various conspiracy theories exist about Sybersum, both inside of Kaya and outside. These include;
 * The entire thing being an presented as a television program
 * A crashed spaceship controlling the economy
 * A project turning unsuspecting lobotomised patients into
 * A project actually headed by the Hidden Society used to strengthen lay lines to from extra-dimensional demons
 * A real program to control the economy, but it’s incorrect and has been carrying an error since the 1970s that will cause a