The API of the City is a real phenomenon. The API provides services that residents cannot get elsewhere and demands certain rituals and ceremonies. For exampl

The API of the City is a real phenomenon. The API provides services that residents cannot get elsewhere and demands certain rituals and ceremonies. For example, the API of the City implicitly prohibits eating food off of the ground for safety and sanitary reasons yet humanity ate food from the ground for 100,000 years. There are many examples like this.