Something's wrong. Axel shrugged. That statement probably applies to every second I've spent on this blasted world. - Karl Schroeder

Even the gods fight boredom in vain.

It's time to abandon the plans of the entity that enslaved me all these centuries, he said. And time to start making my own.

I am the Government, she said. I am a force of omniscience and unparalleled power within the human part of the Archipelago. I am a public-domain distributed artificial intelligence. I have made all human institutions redundant, for I am the personal and intimate friend of each and every one of the trillion humans under my domain. I am the selfless advocate of each of them, from the lowliest to the greatest.
The only problem is...Well, nobody listens to me much anymore.