Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The slogan is the game's tone in three words: a state that wants its borders, its paperwork and its citizens to sound equally proud. It became the shorthand for the whole game and is dropped as a joke whenever anyone checks a document, stamps a form or plays a petty bureaucrat, and other indie games wink at it in return.
Context reviewed
In context
Spoilers for Papers, PleaseShow the scene
"Glory to Arstotzka" is the national motto of Arstotzka, the fictional 1980s Eastern Bloc state of Lucas Pope's Papers, Please (full release 8 August 2013), where the player is a border inspector at the Grestin checkpoint. It is the most-used of the game's four mottoes: it plays in the intro cutscene, in almost every ending scene and at the end of the credits, and the game uses it whenever you approve an Arstotzkan's entry. The M.O.A. supervisor also says it on days 10 and 20, and the entrant Jorji Costava uses it once on day 3. The line has no single speaker, and speaker and work in lines.txt are right.
Sources (3)
- Papers, Please Wiki: Mottoesfirst entryReference checked
- Papers, Please Wiki: ArstotzkaleadReference checked
- Papers, Please Wiki: Papers, PleaseinfoboxReference checked
Context reviewed