In what may be one of the most Orwellian schemes ever concocted by the dictatorship, all 1.3 billion victims of Communist China's mass-murdering regime will soon be given a “score” apparently measuring, among other attributes, their level of loyalty to the nation's brutal overlords. The score will also showcase how “good” each “citizen” is so everyone can be punished or rewarded accordingly.

Under a regime-sanctioned prototype of the system known as “Sesame Credit,” the credit score-style number for each Chinese subject is reportedly to be compiled based on everything from analyses of social-media profiles and book-reading choices to the “Sesame Credit” scores of friends and acquaintances. The more you love your oppression and believe your rulers, the higher your score will be. The higher the score, the more benefits you get from the regime. Ultra-slavish subjects with no "thought crimes" on record can apparently even get visas to travel to the West, according to media reports.

Critics say the scheme has the potential to make Communist China's ideological coercion and its silencing of dissent far easier than it already is — and already, dissidents are routinely tortured, disappeared, and even executed in barbaric fashion. Among other concerns, analysts said the ubiquitous data-gathering used to compute the scores, combined with the added social pressure to conform, could cause even more nervous would-be dissidents to keep quiet in the face of escalating tyranny.

In a bizarre effort to make ruthless totalitarianism seem fun, the communist dictatorship — in partnership with regime-backed Big “Business” — is framing the insidious score as a sort of “game.” Apparently, the most compliant and happy victim of tyranny wins. Chinese subjects with high scores, for example, will reportedly find it easier to obtain permission to travel abroad, get loans, process bureaucratic paperwork, or even receive jobs.

While details about the Orwellian system remain hazy, the handful of news reports that have appeared suggest low scores could result in problems with the regime ranging from restricted Internet to lack of work. Considering the regime's history of mass murder and persecution, it is hardly a stretch to imagine low scores potentially resulting in an extended stay at one of the dictatorship's infamously brutal re-education camps for dissidents, many of whom have had their organs harvested by the regime while they were still alive.

The BBC reported on the outlines of the communist plot in October of 2015, comparing it to credit-scoring systems used in the West primarily to determine the creditworthiness of borrowers, just on a far more comprehensive level. What the regime in Beijing is building, however, is “taking the whole concept a few steps further,” the government-backed British broadcaster reported, drastically downplaying the differences.

“The Chinese government is building an omnipotent 'social credit' system that is meant to rate each citizen's trustworthiness,” the BBC said in one of the earliest reports on the scheme. “By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, including minor traffic violations, and distills it into a single number ranking each citizen.”

It is not yet clear exactly how the “Sesame Credit” score, run by regime-backed online retailing giant Alibaba under a regime-backed “pilot project,” is calculated. The types of purchases consumers make, as well as social-media activity, are said to play a role, but analysts who have studied the system and official documents about it suggest that the truth is even more Orwellian.

Perhaps the most thorough analysis of Beijing's new system to rank its “citizens” was produced by a group of video game analysts as part of the “Extra Credits” video series. The short, animated film on Sesame Credit explains how the regime's obedience metrics will work, and why the scheme is so dangerous to liberty. “If you post pictures of Tiananmen Square or share a link about the recent stock market collapse, your Sesame Credit goes down,” the video narrator explains. “Share a link from the state-sponsored news agency about how good the economy is doing and your score goes up.”

Your purchases, which must of course be tracked to implement the scheme, will also play a major role in establishing your score, as Sesame Credit has been admitting for months. “If you're making purchases the state deems valuable, like work shoes or local agricultural products, your score goes up,” Extra Credits' video said. “If you import anime (cartoons) from Japan though, down the score goes.” The video also offers a great deal of insight into how the tool could be wildly effective in ratcheting up the tyranny on the long-oppressed Chinese people. Watch it below: