Sonia Softmore's digestive tract is the most populated sector of her body. Five years after the incredible event known as The Great Exodus, the large amount of space available in her intestines presented a great opportunity for its inhabitants to continue to rapidly colonize her body.

The architecture of the Capital City was built with large families of millions of Microputians and Lilliputians who would settle there. Their homes were massive with 1000 rooms and floors to ensure that every member of a family had a room of their own. Playgrounds, libraries, restaurants, workshops and many other family-friendly facilities were built for the city's populace to spend their leisure time in, with a fabulous view of a deep pink sky that served as a reminder to the citizens of the benevolent being who gifted her entire body to them.

Among the many jobs performed in the Capital, the most common, but difficult job is that of the Collector. This demanding job takes place in the stomach and involves extracting pieces of food Sonia ingests daily. The food and materials are necessary to feed the populace and for the various economic activities that take place inside her body. It is a tiring and risky job that requires a lot of attention and care since the workers are at risk of falling into the dangerous waters of the vast, corrosive acid ocean. The Microputians who perform this work use yellow flying vehicles to approach the food. These vehicles are small, leaving room for only two workers who control each of the claws on either side of the vehicle. They use these claws to break off chunks of the huge mountain of food and drop them into a hatch at the top of the vehicle. The vehicles were built to be highly resistant to stomach acid and for added safety, the workers wear special suits that protect them in case they fall into the corrosive waters. When this happens, the fallen worker sounds an alarm on their suit or vehicle that alerts the other workers to their plight. The other workers quickly fly to their position and save them. Because of the Microputians' commitment to the safety of their people, not a single life has been lost.

Every morning when the food of the goddess descends through the gigantic tunnel known as her oesophagus and falls to the surface in large chunks, thousands of these vehicles fly at once across the entire area as if they were a huge hive of bees. Once the tank of a vehicle is full, they will fly to a flying, tractor trailer and pour the food into it before resuming their task. This tractor trailer is gigantic to the Micros as it was built by and for the Lilliputians. Once the work period ends or the trailer becomes full, the tractor takes the collected food to the delivery sector, where the pieces of food are sorted into trucks. Thousands of these trucks deliver food to the different towns and cities of Sonia's body every day. The Lilliputians piloting these trucks became known as “the Benefactors” for the great benefit they provide to the trillions of inhabitants residing within the body of their mother. The Collectors and Benefactors became highly influential and respected in their communities as they had the most important job in all of the body. The citizens was always well-fed because of their work and they were thankful for it. The sons of these workers looked up to their fathers and desired to become Collectors and Benefactors themselves, continuing their fathers' line of work. This led to entire Collector and Benefactor family dynasties being forged that would last for many generations.

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March 31, 2025
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