At times it is necessary to provide security to certain areas of the Village while maintaining the illusion of freedom of movement. For this reason, the forcefields were installed at the Town Hall and Administration.

Rovers, the Village Guardians, roam the Village and its outskirts as a constant reminder that there is no escape.

Mytol is the trade name of one of over 1500 drugs synthesized from the benzodiazepine group after the discovery of substance Ro-5-0690

Speedlearn is a revolutionary educational technique involving a combination of courses designed by a mass education computer known as the General.

An electropass is a device which allows high-ranking Village personnel freedom of movement while Rovers are present.

Hypnosis provides a clean and simple way of managing the behavior of individual prisoners when an Infiltrator or Clone may not be practical because of time restraints.

Jacob Saltzman (sometimes spelled “Seltzman”) developed a machine which allows the transference of consciousness from one body to another.

A reaction transmitter is small device used in conjunction with hypnosis to create a human tracking system.