dark gritty santapunk world where the Great Powers of Europe both mandate celebration of Christmas and encourage their subjects to be as naughty as possible to preserve unlimited access to coal and continued industrialization.

"certified freak, seven days a week" implies the existence of a freak certification board, freak exam, and potential freakiness gains from occupational licensing reform

Non-unitary executive theory: quantum wavefunctions evolve according to the Schrodinger equation until acted upon by the president of the United States, at which point they collapse to a single state