About

The idea is simple. People wonder whether the world is ending. We give them a number, then show exactly why that number is ridiculous, then let them make it worse.

What this is

An entertaining editorial game. Real facts are stated plainly and sourced. Fictional departments are labeled as fiction on every card and every shared image.

What this is not

This is not a forecast, a risk assessment or a prophecy. It is not affiliated with any scientific institution, government, religion or extraterrestrial body. Do not use it to make a decision, especially a big one.

What we joke about

Institutions, meetings, subscriptions, confident nonsense and the species in charge. We do not joke about victims, deaths, famine or suffering, and we do not target believers or any group of people. God and the aliens are characters.

Why mix facts and fiction

A serious index would need a claim we cannot defend: that nuclear risk, a warming planet and an epidemic can be reduced to one honest number. So we don’t make that claim. The fiction is there to keep the number visibly silly, while the sources stay real and easy to check. If a shared image ever looks too convincing, the label on it says otherwise.

How to read the site

Start with the percentage, then open a card. Each card says whether it is a data-based proxy, an editorial rubric or fictional satire, and those labels describe where the score comes from, not how certain it is. Then go to Playing God and make everything worse, which is the part people tend to enjoy. Your scenario stays on your device unless you choose to share it.

Updates

Editions are built by hand from a script and a review of the evidence. There is no live feed, no user tracking in the score, and no chatbot deciding anything at runtime. Rubric evidence has expiry dates, so a stale edition should be read as stale.

Corrections

Each edition is immutable. A correction creates a new edition, so the old number stays on the record with its mistakes intact, which is more than most institutions manage.