after all , the facility was airtight and hence , even in open spaces , he would be restricted in his access to the outdoors and made to endure the irksome artificiality of this environment , which was disingenuously punctuated by trees , rock formations , and flora that were all said to be native to the asoka plains areawhich wouldnt have seemed so bad if such things were natural , instead of intentional components of a microcosmic design hyper-real in its attributes .