The city continued to be pulled apart and as it was so the significance of records and metrics came once more to the fore.

It wouldn’t be a genocide without the concomitant cataloguing and noting and so the task fell to an army of hastily-appointed trustees with a civil service background to collect the last will and testament of every citizen.

Like the ultimate reality television show, everybody began to be forced at gunpoint to leave a record on video of who they once were.

Once their message was recorded, they were herded back to whichever landmark they had been assigned to destroy and the process continued.

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