From the author of Welcome to Camp America , an eerie exploration of America's performance of power and identity in the post-9/11 era What are the stories we tell ourselves, the games we play, to manage unsettling realities? Made on ten military bases across the United States since 2016, Necessary Fictions documents mock-village landscapes in the fictional country of Atropia and its denizens, roleplayers who enact versions of their past or future selves.