While The Player Sleeps

While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate master:
THE PLAYER
For, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game - the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitised stage.
Existing solely for the entertainment of HIM...

Keywords: science fiction, fantasy, black mirror, dystopia, short story, alternate future, video games, gaming, society, cities, religion, dictators, government, urban