The player is rewarded in their daily salary for how many people they have processed correctly in that day, while also being fined for making mistakes the salary is used to help provide shelter, food and heat for the player's in-game family. As the immigration officer, the player must review each immigrant and return citizen's passports and other supporting paperwork against an ever-growing list of rules using a number of tools and guides, allowing in only those with the proper paperwork while rejecting those without all proper forms, and at times detaining those with falsified information.
The game takes place at a migration checkpoint in Grestin, a border city split between Arstotzka and the neighboring country of Kolechia, and a fictional parallel of the Cold War-era division between East and West Berlin. Later, a garbled news channel suggests that the pendulum may be swinging back the other way and it might be in the player's best interests to run stories critical of the old bosses in preparation for the arrival of the new bosses.In Papers, Please, the player take on the role of a border-crossing immigration officer in the fictional dystopian Eastern Bloc-like country of Arstotzka, which has been and continues to be at political hostilities with its neighboring countries. Over the first few days of your stewardship of the paper, the player's bosses in the government will assign loyalty goals and readership quotas that need to be met at risk of the comfort and safety of the player's family, under government supervision. Bad news, however, lowers government loyalty. Some sensational stories (about, eg., celebrities, weather and sports) increase readership interest, while other stories - about policy triumphs and the like - increase loyalty to the government. Republia's rival nation Antegria has been defeated at war and rebel elements have been quashed! Now the centralised government needs to win over the hearts and minds of its citizens - with the player on the front lines, comrade, as the editor of the national newspaper! Sitting at a news desk (bearing an uncanny ressemblance to an '80s Macintosh desktop publishing setup), players oversee stories coming in over the news wire services and get to select which stories to run and how much space to allocate them on the front page before the work day ends and the papers go to the presses.
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