ACME — Chapter Two (REDACTED)

An Explanation (let me take you by the hand)

The ACME Company was everything to everyone around it. As fundamental as water to our survival, there were utterly no revolutionaries against the peculiar establishment. After all, a human wouldn’t get particularly far if they eschewed fluids; so, the same applied to Petey, Georgie and the rest of their charming ilk’s reliance on ACME to nourish them.

The Company provided all inhabitants with their wishes. Popular orders included food (such as oversized hams and coloured mush), utilities, furniture and even weaponry (of which the honed Anvil™ design dominated the market). ACME manufactured these items, and diligently delivered them, using materials made available through prosperity.

Looking at concepts in such simple terms has a habit of rendering their more ludicrous details void. For us, greater prosperity and creativity brings success and contentment. It doesn’t matter that the equation requires factories, labour, documentation, bureaucracy, corruption, politics, arts and a continuing list of ins and outs that make it feasible and, indeed, fallible.

The only differences for ACME were the nature of the materials, where they would originate from and how they came into being. As a matter of fact, the metaphysical building blocks they used to…