History Literature / InstrumentOfGod

* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: In the Afterlife they have public kiosks where you can select a destination, and if you can afford the bribe to get the privilege, you can obtain the ability to teleport directly, similar to being able to buy a car in our world. Also, rooms with special need for privacy can use an electronic lock that prohibits anyone (except the CChairman) to teleport into that room.

* OnlyOneAfterlife: Everyone goes to the same afterlife, no matter what they did on earth. Only difference is you go to a specific Language Section, depending on what language that you think in, the Arabic Language Section, the English Language Section, the French Language Section, the Spanish Langcuage Section, etc.

* ArtificialAfterlife: The world 246 inhabits is operated inside of a computer system, and the appearance is smuch like to a clone of earth, more-or-less similar to any urban center in any ordinary city in the real world, minus the dirt and slums (unless someone goes to the trouble to add them, like they did in the Frontier) along with popular virtual world technology such as teleporters, and jump tubes (like an elevator, only you zoom up or down very fast, and have a very gentle landing at the end.)

* AfterlifeWelcome: We get to see how several people, including Supervisor 246, are welcomed into the Afterlife. In fact,they have a whole government department, the Welcoming Department, dedicated to this function.

* ArtificialAfterlife: The world 246 inhabita is similar to a clone of earth, more-or-less similar to any urban center in any ordinary city in the real world, minus the dirt and slums (unless someone goes to the trouble to add them, like they did in the Frontier) along with popular virtual world technology such as teleporters, and jump tubes (like an elevator, only you zoom up or down very fast, and have a very gentle landing at the end.)

* NoNameGiven - We don't learn 246's real name.

-->''246:'' A dear friend of mine ... used to run this scam on Incomings, because it was so funny. We’d have a huge booth signing people up for credit cards, and we’d deliberately set the limits to enormous amounts, US $200,000, $300,000 or more. And we put some ATM machines up that they could get money, lots of it. Since the machine created it on the spot, they never were empty. And we put up all these automated stores where people could buy things. We’d have them sign favors in exchange for the money they got.

* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: In the Afterlife they have public kiosks where you can select a destination, and if you can afford the bribe to get the privilege, you can obtain the ability to teleport directly, similar to being able to buy a car in our world.

* NamesTheSame: A rapist is caught by the police. When asked his name, he replies, "Cesar Chavez. Not the same guy who helped migrant workers."

* FreeLoveFuture

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex

* ArtificialAfterlife: The world 246 inhabita is similar to a clone of earth, more-or-less similar to any urban center in any ordinary city in the real world, minus the dirt and slums (unless someone goes to the trouble to add them, like they did in the Frontier) along with popular virtual world technology such as teleporters, and jump tubes (like an elevator, only you zoom up or down very fast, and have a very gentle drop or eise at the end.)

* ArtificialAfterlife: The world 246 inhabita is similar to a clone of earth, more-or-less similar to any urban center in any ordinary city in the real world, minus the dirt and slums (unless someone goes to the trouble to add them) along with popular virtual world technology such as teleporters, and jump tubes (like an elevator, only you zoom up or down very fast, and have a very gentle drop or eise at the end.)

''In the Matter of: Instrument of God'' was an long unpublished comedy book by Paul Robinson, and is the sequel to ''Literature/TheGatekeeper''. It's a story about an Afterlife, operated in a computer system like Film/TheMatrix, only everyone knows they're dead and they are aware they are inside of a computer system.

The book stars Supervisor 246, lead supervisor of the Welcoming Department. Supporting characters include David, Supervisor 246's boss; George, the Chairman of the Afterlife who is effectively God; Joan, the police watch commander and one of 246's girlfriends; Diane, one of the members of the Board of Directors of the Afterlife; Arlene, a TV reporter who brings 246 onto a TV show where a fight breaks out; Marilyn, who becomes (heavily disliked) Administrator of the Welcoming Department after 246's friend Tom decides to go back to earth; and Andrea, the only woman (and only person) who ever beat 246 in a contest, and does so four times.

The book can be read for free as a PDF on the author's website [[http://www.paul-robinson.us/instrument.pdf here.]]

* ColonCancer: The full title is "In the Matter Of: Instrument Of God", but the preceding book it is a sequel to is called ''In the Matter of: Literature/TheGatekeeper: the Gate Contracts''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The list of speaking roles at the start of the book shows more than 150 people, by name, that have at least one line of dialog.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: In the Afterlife they have public kiosks where you can select a destination, and if you can afford the bribe to get the privilege, you can obtain the ability to teleport directly, similar to being able to buy a car in our world.

** The ''woman'' who causes the female orgasm meter to explode was born a man, but was {{transgender}}. When he becomes a woman after he dies, she is now a very happy (and very boy-crazy) woman who has no sex hangups.

* OnlyOneAfterlife: Everyone goes to the same afterlife, no matter what they did on earth. Only difference is you go to a specific Language Section, depending on what language that you think in, the Arabic Language Section, the English Language Section, the French Language Section, the Spanish Language Section, etc.