How does the announcer know everything going on in the community?

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In this book, there are loudspeakers everywhere in the community.  There is at least one person whose job is to make announcments over those speakers.  I think that there is more than one person, though, because you hear that Jonas got scolded over the speaker for taking a fruit from its proper place.  I don't think they would announce that to the whole community.

So, I think that there are different "Speakers" as the announcers are called in different areas.  I imagine that there are just plenty of people whose job is to spy on each other and report people doing stuff wrong.  I have no proof of that, but that is what makes sense to me.

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