Prosocial Behaviour Rating
The Prosocial Behaviour Rating (PBR) is score and associated classification system used to assess how closely a work of fiction or non-fiction reflects what is accepted and proven to constitute socially constructive conduct. The PBR evaluates the attitudes, behaviors, dialogue, and theatrical elements included in books, films, telekinephotocast programs, and other printed and electronic mass media.
The PBR is akin to the motion picture content rating systems of modern-ancient Earthly times, except in Illuminatia this rating system is not limited to motion pictures; it applies to numerous mediums of mass communication including movies in efforts to be as universal as possible.
The Prosocial Behaviour Rating makes a ruling on how closely related a work reflects or encourages behavior, dialogue, and ideas that are proven to improve the probability that a positive version of human civilization will survive both on Neonisi, any other potential worlds inhabited by Lucidus mission offshoots, or on Earth itself. The PBR—similar to most other judgments regarding society and culture in Illuminatia—bases its assertions on a philosophy promoting the better general collective benefit to society as a whole. The PBR favors collectivism that benefits the whole and devalues the type of individualism that might act at the expense of the greater good without contributing to a broader discourse, artistic expression, or an expansion of the collective incorporation of universal understanding and acceptance of the human condition.
The PBR is often considered in conjunction with the Plausible Reality Rating (PRR), which concerns itself exclusively with analyzing how close the depictions in the media in question reflect what is true about reality. Consumers might make decisions regarding the media they consume and the messaging they wish to take from that media using both the PBR and PRR.
The Prosocial Behaviour Rating is calculated by a neutral association of mass media industry organizations independent of the Illuminatian government, a structure that seeks to maintain the objectivity of the PBR while absolving the government of any potential of being found to legislate or create preemptive policy based upon the content of speech, which the government in Illuminatia fervently abstains in efforts to protect free speech rights.
The basis of the necessity of the PBR, however, is grounded in the Department of Social Harmony (DSH), a governmental agency that promotes the health of society and is focused—similar to the PBR—on increasing the probability of the success of human civilization in Illuminatia. In order to avoid any potential chilling effect on free speech that might come from governmental involvement, the DSH responsibility for establishing, structuring, and upholding judgements by the Prosocial Behaviour Rating.
The Prosocial Behaviour Ratingis applied to both fiction and non-fiction materials, but is applied differently to either category of content. Stronger standards are applied to fiction.
Fictional materials subject to the PBR include novels, short stories, mass-distributed theatrical scripts and screenplays, cinema, and telekinephotocast comedies and dramas.
Non-fiction materials subject to the PBR include those oriented primarily toward the provision of entertainment, including some magazines, advertisements, and wireless and telekinephotocast programs and the broadcasters thereof.
Notably excepted from PBR classification are news publications, public affairs commentary, current affairs political discourse, documentaries, and educational materials. Also excluded are any productions that are not mass-distributed or mass-produced; the PBR is never applied to live theatrical productions, music performances, poetry recitations, lectures, or other communications and performances that are only seen or experienced by an in-person or private audience in a venue limited to a single location.