ID X,Y and Z
X, founder,frontman and the only official member of Y, promoted the band in a unique way. Before Zwas released, songs from the album were found on USB drives hidden at Y's concert venues in as part of the alternate reality game whose name is same as Z.
It presented the scenario of year 2022, termed Z, the year America is reborn. . The U.S. govt. maintains control through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano.
A government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug ______ through the water supply, making Americans who drink the water apathetic and carefree. There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative(a group of students, professors and computer experts devise a successful means with which to send information into the pastto prevent the calamities.).
There are increasing sightings of a pair of massive ghostly hands and arms extending down from the sky into the ground. The sequence ends with a broken message announcing the appearance of the hands over the United States Capitol Building. The message cuts suddenly, implying the end of the world.
The websites and music of the Z alternate reality game are implied to be part of the information packets sent back.
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X - Trevor Reznor
Y - Nine Inch Nails
Z - Year Zero