International Unethical Research Station

The **International Unethical Research Station**, also known by its acronym **IURS** or "Hell" by some inhabitants, is a large artificial island constructed by the International Unethical Research Union at an unknown date. It is incorporated as a nation and participates in international politics and events such as the Olympics. The IURS' capital city is Spider Torture Area #4.

As the name says, the IURS is a place to freely perform unethical and immoral experiments in the name of science without the intervention of things such as bureaucracy and bad PR. It is operated and managed by the IURU, with funding from the IURU and itself.

## Notable Experiments

The IURS has conducted many experiments. Some of the more notable ones are listed below:

### Milpound experiment

In the **Milpound *expreiment***, the IURS asked participants in a trial to repeatedly electrically shock others. They found that the participants all eventually died.

### The Milgram Oil Drop Experiment

In 1934-sv\*i a team of IURS scientists conducted an experiment to test if individuals could reliably deliver each other electric shocks consisting of precise, round numbers of individual electrons when in the presence of an authority figure instructing them to do so and dangled over a pot of boiling oil. The results were inconclusive; several subjects appeared to be capable of delivering shocks containing either exactly a quintillion or MAXINT (64-bit) electrons, although it's unclear if the last one was the true value or simply the result of programmatic safeguards to prevent integer overflow, but most did not seem to be able to do so. Eleven shock recipients died during the experiment and three participants assigned to give shocks died after refusing to complete the experiment and being dropped in the boiling oil, giving a fatality rate among participants of 14/377 or 3.7%, one of the lowest in recorded history for IURS-conducted experiments.

### The Trolley Experiment

In the **Trolley Experiment**, a team of IURS scientists gave some participants LSD and gave others a placebo. They then tied six out of seven participants to railways, five to one side and one to another, and had an authority figure ask the remaining participants to choose which track trains would take. They determined that drugged researchers were significantly more likely to record that participants delivered electric shocks to the trains. The researchers also determined that non-drugged participants tended to send the trains down the rails with five people more often than drugged participants. Some of the researchers hypothesized that this was due to their heavy searching for volunteers in criminally insane and murderous circles for the experiment. Furthermore, afterward, researchers found that drugged participants had higher levels in LSD in their blood than non-drugged participants. Between these results, they determined that wanting to minimize deaths caused LSD caused electrostatically charged trains. A further finding was that, when held at gunpoint, participants tended to give more positive descriptions of the experiments afterward. The researchers concluded that guns caused happiness, and this landmark finding was the reason for why, to encourage a positive attitude, the IURS is filled with firearms, which use AI to automatically aim at the nearest human beings, and are set to fire in the event that any workers leave their cubicles without permission.

## Controversy

The IURS has been investigated for tax fraud, but no findings were released publicly.

The IURS has also been investigated when it sheltered a known criminal named Albert Caponisson, but, despite damning public opinion, courts determined that Caponisson had convinced the IURS that he was a different person and was only joking when he said he was himself.

Former inhabitants of the IURS have accused the IURS of torture and murder, but an investigation by the IURU has turned up no findings to support the claim.

## Olympics

The IURS is particularly successful in the Three-legged race, consistently winning the most gold medals. The IURS was historically dominant in quantum croquet, but has recently fallen upon a medal drought.