Its citizens are already living here. They collect wages, eat three meals, queue for coffee at seven in the morning, and pay rent into the city pot — and they have been doing it around the clock while this page was being written.

What is missing is your half of it: the login, the shifts you work, the wallet that fills, the rent that comes due. Opening the gate before that exists would give you a town to walk through rather than a town to live in.

So the gate stays shut a little longer. In the meantime the ledger below is the honest state of the build — including the parts that are not finished.