Sorry, mate, I've been able to get a bit of a grip on some of your hard-hard-hard-SF stuff, but you lost me on this one. I was OK with Miéville's The City and the City, but this is the same only sixfold with a wild card. It's good to posit a scenario and then examine how we might research a problem in that scenario, but your reader has to have some clue.

If you've played the "Disco Elysium" game maybe you'll see a similarity -- you spend more than half your time trying to work out what the hell is going on here.