Coast Watch HQ

Upon entry, guests are greeted by the friendly receptionist, who points them to the duty free bar to loosen up prior to their subsequent toils.

 

   

Here, visitors liquer up at the duty-free bar.

 

In the up-coming series of security check points, it is suggested to provide "tips" and research has shown that guests tend to provide better tips after a few drinks.

 

Therefore, the duty-free bar is a required destination for all visitors prior to entering immigration.

 

As a pleasant side effect, the bar turns a tidy profit.

 

   

Here, visitors line up for the immigration check point.

BrickTopia has an open immigration policy.

Any visitor can enter the city, but must purchase a BrickTopia City Pass for $5000.

Once purchased, the City Pass is good for any purchases inside BrickTopia until the visitor leaves. 

Essentially, this serves as a guarantee that each visitor will contribute to the local economy.

Non-human guests enjoy an additional fee called the "equal opportunity tax."  This tax supposedly goes towards addressing the special needs of non-human guests in BrickTopia, such as allowing for sufficient ceiling heights, appropriate size public transportation, and lanuage translation.  In fact, the fee is actually used to subsidize the living expenses of Coast Watch personel.

When guests arrive at the window, the immigration clerk finalizes the transaction by suggesting a generous tip.  After shelling out $5000+, guests usually balk at the suggestion, but a gentle nudge from the security guard usually elicits the desired contribution.

 

 

  

    
     

Here, one sees the end of the immigration line.

 

The extremely obese creature on the right is ready for trouble.  Since the "equal opportunity tax" rises steeply depending on the anatomical differences compared to a human, this creature is braced for some stiff fees.

 

Luckily, this creature, Jabba by name, runs an evil crime syndicate in his home country, and he has plenty of money to throw around, to get into BrickTopia.

 

 

   

After passing immigration, visitors must pass through the public health office.

 

Here, visitors endure a grueling set of medical examinations.

 

Subsequently, visitors receive manditory "vaccinations" against foreign viruses.

 

In fact, these "vaccinations" actually include a minute tracking, and coercion mechanism.  This mechanism lodges itself in one of the main arteries and allows the BrickTopian government to track all visitors.  As an added bonus, security personal can remotely trigger a "pain response" which can range anywhere from mild discomfort (possibly to entice a visitor to leave the country) to excrutiating pain (to prevent the visitor from moving, or just for cruel entertainment). 

 

If necessary, the tracking mechanism can even be remotely exploded.  No more need be said about the impact on the unlucky visitor in this case.

 

 

    

After the medical exams, the final step for entry into BrickTopia is the dreaded customs check.

Here officers rifle through visitors belongings.  Should they find interesting or valuable items, they frequently confiscate them.  In BrickTopia, the laws for legal importation of goods can be liberally interpreted by coast watch officers.

This means that visitors must explicitly enclose "gifts" in their baggage for officers, or provide a substantial tip.

Uncooperative visitors can find themselves delivered to BrickTopia with little more than their empty suitcase.

    

Here, security personel keep track of the position of all visitors using the tracking mechanism.

The visitor list is checked against known criminals and terrorists, as well as visitors who refused to leave Coast Watch tips.

Failure to leave a tip upon entry can yield an unpleasant stay in BrickTopia, with mild to moderate pain at all times.  Usually, this causes the visitor to report to a doctor.  When the doctor finds out that the individual is a foreign visitor, he usually queries the visitor as to whether or not he left a tip.  If not, then the visitor is informed that the state has ways of getting back at him, an that he should go leave an extra large tip.

When the visitor returns to coast watch, the offering is customarily refused, while security personal crank up the pain rating on the internal transmitter.  Only when the originally requested tip is doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled, is the tip accepted, and the pain stopped.

It usually only requires a few of these incidents a month for word to spread that tips are manditory for a pleasant stay.

   
At the top of the building, Coast Watch personel track incoming vessals and direct attack helicopters towards interception.   

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