What if happiness was a commodity among cities?

Happiness has now become one of the most precious resource of cities. A race toward an unlimited growth of happiness has started.

Cities have to collaborate with each other to raise their local level of happiness. They stimulate the joy of citizens by creating new third places providing activities where people can gather and celebrate to push up the happiness indicator.

The entire society will be reorganized according to the happiness policies, shaping time, interactions among people and physical spaces in the city.

The infrastructure of the city will be designed to reach the daily happiness goal. Citizens will have to wear bracelets measuring their happiness level, allowing authorities to track the mood of the city. In order to maintain the happiness production at the a constant rhythm, behavior guides solving conflicts and time-cards helping to find the right balance between work and happy times will be provided to each citizen.

At the end of each day, if the happiness quota is achieved, local governments will release a cloud of happiness. This chemical cloud contains antidepressants medicine, used to sustain happiness overnight.

A new range of practices would also appear in the city, from the black market selling happy boosts to accelerate the individual growth of happiness to the Enthusiasts divisions crafting a positive propaganda campaign all around the city.