Gianfranco Mazzilli (b ca. 2081) was a 16-year-old Milanese boy who attended Hoxha Polytechnic. Although he struggled to be an average student, his real passion was playing games at The Gladiator, a store in Milan's Galleria degli Popoli. His favorite game was Rails across Europe, which allowed him to pretend he is a railroad magnate in the nineteenth century. As Gianfranco became a better gamer, he noticed he was able to relate his schoolwork to the game, and so understand it. His grades began to improve. He even learned that his algebra teacher, Comrade Donofrio, was an avid player.