Tall, silvery, and imposing, Mind Controller increases the effective <l:6,96>"happiness"<e> in the city by rewarding or punishing people with pleasant or unpleasant sensations on an individual basis, depending on their compliance and loyalty. However, citizens became more concerned with meeting the criteria to be rewarded than acting rationally and effectively, which is represented by 50% <l:6,95>crime<e> increase. Religious missionaries have no hope of penetrating this psychic barrier. The actual scope of impact on the human mind varies greatly. In democracies and religious states, it's strictly limited to blocking the most extreme outbursts of convicted criminals. In less humanitarian regimes, like <l:7,13>Fascism<e>, <l:7,11>Communism<e>, <l:7,17>Ecotopia<e> and especially the <l:7,18>Technocracy<e>, Mind Controllers are used to pacify whole groups of people, be them the poor, the "lesser beings", or the politically incorrect. The most extreme is the <l:7,20>Cyberhive<e>, where mind control lies at the very foundation of the society.