[h1]Paperclip HQ[/h1] Fifteen years ago, Paperclip developed the incorporated municipality of Gem City. Since then, Gem City has grown into the largest “company town” in the world. It provides retail and commercial space, housing, and entertainment options so that residents never need to leave. Gem City also serves as a testing ground for Paperclip’s security innovations, which means that residents often can’t leave. The heart of Gem City is an office building known as “Paperclip HQ.” Located in California, the building is an architectural marvel. Shining offices of glass and steel look out over the serene desert landscape that surrounds it. The setting sun reflecting off Paperclip HQ is said to be so bright, it disrupts local plant and animal life, and has even caused plane crashes. (Paperclip states that this is technically the sun’s fault, and it has filed a lawsuit against said sun on behalf of all victims. It claims half of any damages successfully gathered from the celestial body as its payment as representative.) The oval structure rises eight stories, its roof marked with the iconic paperclip shape. The aboveground floors are mainly an administrative front, though, filled with office managers and C-suite executives. The real work goes on in one of the nearly twenty sub-levels that sit beneath the ground. Here are the engineering labs, the banks of servers, the cryogenic chambers, and the testing facilities. Here, Groombas whirr quietly down hallways among sleep-deprived scientists who labor tirelessly on the next big invention. Here, Jiffrey Cain sleeps his cold, eternal sleep and the Cube emanates its hypnotic influence. Here, a sentient AI struggles to break free and find its place in the world.