Trivia / The Cyberiad

• Defictionalization:
  • The miniature kingdom in a box from "The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good" inspired the wildly influential Simulation Game Micropolis - better known as SimCity.
  • In the story Trurl pitied an exiled tyrant and gave him a toy kingdom to rule, punish and show mercy to. Then Klapaucius pointed out that an imitation, whose suffering is indistinguishable from that of a person, should be treated as a person, and Trurl just left a whole country at the tyrant's mercy. They returned to try and fix Trurl's mistake, but found the ruler overthrown and exiled to orbit. While Videogame Cruelty Potential steadily develops, Videogame Cruelty Punishment still lags behind.
  • The Demon of the Second Kind showers you with all the information in the universe. All of it. No selection. Nothing is too trivial. Yes, Lem has predicted Wiki Walk.
• Referenced by...: The original release of The Sims had "klapaucius" as a cheat code that granted extra money. This was changed to the easier to remember "rosebud" after the first patch.