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This sounds like a subplot of a Neal Stephenson story from back in the day.

• jameshart 3y ago
  An NS version of this story would somehow involve the protagonist needing to travel to Kazakhstan, undertaking a multiple-day journey in a convoy of trucks across some mountains, to secure a meeting with an officious local bureaucrat who turns out to be bribable with in-game currency from a Chinese gacha game he’s obsessed with.
  • rrr_oh_man 3y ago
    That sounds very much like my experience in Kazakhstan