irtual reality is based on warped reality.  So, for the most part, the characters in Referendumland are warped.  They are real people who deliberately convey a warped reality to achieve their aim of deception.  Only two characters are not warped:  Alice and her adviser, Constitutional Cat.  They are not warped because the Cat knows the difference between truth and fiction.  And, Alice is not warped — for, she alone, can see the Cat, and she alone contests the close-up deception behind the apparently wonderful but misleading view in Referendumland.