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Simulated reality is a speculative-fiction category in which the world — or significant parts of it — is revealed to be artificially created or rendered indistinguishable from "base" reality, whether by computers, advanced AIs, alien designers, gods, or other entities; stories use this premise to examine perception, identity, free will, and the ethics of creation and control. Typical plots center on characters who notice glitches, recover suppressed memories, hack or exploit underlying rules, attempt escape, or confront the creators, and the tone ranges from philosophical and noir to thriller, dystopia, satire, or dark comedy. The genre foregrounds questions about what makes an experience authentically human, the social and political consequences of living in constructed worlds, and how truth is verified when sensory data can be fabricated — often using narrative devices like nested layers of reality, unreliable perception, and visible "code" or game-like mechanics to explore both intimate psychological stakes and broad technological or metaphysical implications.

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