Granted. A sheet of meaningless paper appears in everyone’s possession. This sheet of paper lists stats that have no effect, and among them is empathy.

Granted. The world is unchanged because when all action and perception is shifted exactly the same amount in the same way, the relative effect is net zero.

Empathy was not on their character sheets, so everyone gets a new empathy skill set to 1 out of a possible 30.

Everyone now has the lowest non zero empathy score

Granted but their Inland Empire also stat gets set to 10.