uramallit

Uramallit is a fictional term used in speculative fiction and tabletop role-playing games to describe a family of modular computational templates designed to emulate aspects of human cognition and social behavior. In-universe, uramallit are not a single device but a family of reconfigurable systems that can be assembled from a common core and interchangeable modules to simulate different personalities, policies, or cultural norms. They are used for research simulations, training scenarios, and narrative devices to explore questions of agency, bias, and governance.

The name is presented as a constructed compound from an imagined language of the setting; there is no canonical etymology across works, and different authors may reinterpret the roots or spellings. The earliest explicit references appear in 21st-century science fiction and fantasy media, and the concept has since spread to game manuals and fan wikis as a flexible design metaphor.

Design and capabilities vary by author, but typical uramallit include a core decision engine, modular behavior templates, and an ethical constraint layer or guard. They may support scaling from simple individualized agents (micro-uramallit) to collections that coordinate in groups (macro-uramallit). In stories and games, uramallit enable exploration of moral trade-offs, social compliance, and the consequences of automated governance.

Note: This article describes a fictional concept used in speculative fiction and is not a reference to a real-world technology.