That's a really well put together business model and realistically applicable to the real-world. Two thumbs up.

The only way you won't find role play is if you can't create it for yourself. Unlike most games with clear objectives, set AI's and the like, this game's immersion will depend greatly on your own ability to initiate role play with other players. The only other game I've played with this sort of player-based control is a now dead game called "Face Of Mankind" which was epic when I played. The entire game was player controlled, between every faction, governance, and item made, sold, and bought on the markets. It was a different game entirely than Identity, but some of the core roleplay aspects are the same. After experiencing that sort of roleplay in a game I've seen nothing even close until Altis Life, which was nothing more than a mod with limitations. In short, it isn't going to be about the game's capability to immerse you, at least not entirely, or even majorly. It is going to be more about your own creativity and role playing abilities. As for it being a cops and robbers game, even if that was the intention of the developers, this game has the potential to be so much more than that already by what we have been told by the devs. I think there might be some chaos at launch, but once people quickly find their place in the world I doubt you're going to find a better roleplaying experience with this much to offer you. IMO.

I wanted to create a news network to keep all the citizens informed of happenings and current events. I saw where the devs mentioned being able to write books and the like, I was wondering if there would be any sort of potential to create a newspaper of sorts; potentially have reporters interviewing people and writing up columns for a sellable in-game news. I like to believe this is an original idea of mine, and ultimately my prioritized goal at this junction in time. The only issue being, I'm not certain how possible it is going to be given what little i know/ understand of the current/upcoming mechanics. Any thoughts or ideas are welcome. Any sort of feedback from a developer about the possibility of doing this would be great too =D

Can you elaborate on this "automatic distribution" ?