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A work of speculative fiction. The Department of Strategic Continuity is not a real government agency, and this is not a government website. About this project

Department of
Strategic Continuity

About This Project

strategiccontinuity.org is an immersive work of speculative fiction presented in the form of a federal research agency website. Nothing on this site is an official government communication.

What this website is

The site imagines an alternate United States in October 2026 in which a federal department has been created to study the long-term survival of civilization. Its publications, programs, facilities and news releases are written in the restrained style of real public-sector research institutions, because the project is interested in how extraordinary ideas look when they are handled by ordinary institutional processes.

What is fictional

  • The Department of Strategic Continuity does not exist. It is not part of, affiliated with or endorsed by the United States Government or any government, agency, laboratory or university.
  • The Departmental seal, its offices and divisions, its officials (who are referred to only by title), the Interagency Task Force on Civilizational Continuity, the Continuity Research Facilities and all report identifiers are invented.
  • The projection of civilizational breakdown by 2035 is fiction. It is the output of an invented model inside the story. No credible scientific consensus holds that civilization will collapse in 2035.
  • Whole-brain emulation and "mind uploading" have not been achieved. There is no demonstrated method for transferring or preserving a human mind in a computer, and it is unknown whether one is possible. The Neural Continuity Research Program is a fictional research program.
  • Statistics, specifications, budgets, staffing figures, dates and quotations attributed to the Department are invented for the story.

What is real

Some publications list background literature — real, published scientific and scholarly works on topics such as connectomics, complex-systems failure, decision-making under deep uncertainty, and digital preservation. These are cited only for general context, in a separate, clearly labeled list. Their authors have no connection to this project, and the works do not support the fictional findings presented here.

Design choices

The site follows the general conventions of public-sector websites — clear navigation, accessible typography, breadcrumbs and document listings — informed by the openly published U.S. Web Design System guidance. It intentionally does not use the official U.S. government website banner, a .gov domain, or any real agency's branding, and every page carries a fiction disclosure at the top.

The site does not issue alerts, warnings, or public-safety guidance of any kind. If you are concerned about a real emergency, contact local emergency services or consult official government sources.

Content in documents

Each publication page carries a notice identifying it as a fictional document. Readers who share excerpts are asked to keep that context attached, so that fictional findings are not mistaken for real research.

Project contact

A contact address for the project owner has not yet been published. When one is available it will be listed here.

See also the privacy notice and the accessibility statement.

The seal of the fictional Department of Strategic Continuity

The Departmental seal is an original artwork created for this project. It is not the seal of any real government body.