@booklet {11125, title = {"The State Machine"}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2020}, month = {September 26, 2020}, abstract = {

The story is set in a gradually collapsing future in which Sri Lanka is the testing ground for governance based on algorithms and traces its development from a computer game to a self-evolving system.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, url = {{\textquotedblleft}The State Machine,{\textquotedblright} a short story by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. (slate.com)}, author = {Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992)}, editor = {[Divya Srinivasan] [Breed]} }