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Review online listings for volunteers and potential kidnapping targets to identify promising candidates. You settle behind the desk in your sparse office, the computer humming to life as you navigate to the familiar portals. Two browser windows open side by side—a study in contrasts that the world pretends doesn't exist. The left screen displays VolunteerStock.com, the government-approved marketplace where the fiction of consent is maintained with bureaucratic precision. Dozens of profiles scr