The year is 2083. The United States is in ruin after decades of state-sponsored race riots and economic decline. COVID strain #2465 lockdowns are in full effect. The ongoing War on Terror has escalated to new heights to combat the growing threat from numerous terrorist groups which have gripped the nation with fear.
Most Americans subsist on what little food they can scavenge on the black market with their Universal Basic Income, but this has become increasingly risky as of late. The PRF (Pandemic Response Force), working in conjunction with the CDC, have been cracking down on "superspreader health terrorists" attempting to endanger national security by illegally selling food on the black market. Some citizens have managed to secure a reasonable standard of living by enlisting in the military to pilot drones and bomb nameless, faceless enemies in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the FBI keeps us safe from the threat of white supremacy and unconscious bias by scanning the facial expressions of children in schools using advanced cameras and software. Expressions of confusion or disagreement with any state-approved lecture prompts harsh discipline for the student and a knock on the parents' door by the FBI.
Across the nation, citizens huddle in community housing and watch the state-run "American Free Press," formed by a merger between ABC, CNN, and NPR in 2038. The news reports gleefully that another domestic terrorist has been detained and charged with distributing memes on the dark web. The camera flips to an in-the-field shot of a man being dragged out of his apartment by heroic FBI counter-terrorism forces in full tactical gear. The graphic on the man's black t-shirt, likely a large letter "Q" patterned with the American Flag, is blurred on screen to protect viewers from the obscene graphic. The man's wife and two children can be seen weeping in the doorway in the background of the shot, and a blue-haired demigirl somewhere in America wonders out loud why the man's family is not being arrested too.
Just before the man is forcefully shoved into the backseat of a black MRAP with FBI markings and tinted windows, he can be heard shouting "TRUST THE PLAN! MASS ARRESTS OF CORRUPT WORLD LEADERS COMING ANY DAY NOW!"
The year is 2083. The United States is in ruin after decades of state-sponsored race riots and economic decline. COVID strain #2465 lockdowns are in full effect. The ongoing War on Terror has escalated to new heights to combat the growing threat from numerous terrorist groups which have gripped the nation with fear.
Most Americans subsist on what little food they can scavenge on the black market with their Universal Basic Income, but this has become increasingly risky as of late. The PRF (Pandemic Response Force), working in conjunction with the CDC, have been cracking down on "superspreader health terrorists" attempting to endanger national security by illegally selling food on the black market. Some citizens have managed to secure a reasonable standard of living by enlisting in the military to pilot drones and bomb nameless, faceless enemies in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the FBI keeps us safe from the threat of white supremacy and unconscious bias by scanning the facial expressions of children in schools using advanced cameras and software. Expressions of confusion or disagreement with any state-approved lecture prompts harsh discipline for the student and a knock on the parents' door by the FBI.
Across the nation, citizens huddle in community housing and watch the state-run "American Free Press," formed by a merger between ABC, CNN, and NPR in 2038. The news reports gleefully that another domestic terrorist has been detained and charged with distributing memes on the dark web. The camera flips to an in-the-field shot of a man being dragged out of his apartment by heroic FBI counter-terrorism forces in full tactical gear. The graphic on the man's black t-shirt, likely a large letter "Q" patterned with the American Flag, is blurred on screen to protect viewers from the obscene graphic. The man's wife and two children can be seen weeping in the doorway in the background of the shot, and a blue-haired demigirl somewhere in America wonders out loud why the man's family is not being arrested too.
Just before the man is forcefully shoved into the backseat of a black MRAP with FBI markings and tinted windows, he can be heard shouting "TRUST THE PLAN! MASS ARRESTS OF CORRUPT WORLD LEADERS COMING ANY DAY NOW!"
Almost. The year is 2038. The United States of Socialist Democrats, already in economic ruin on the coasts, while the former 'fly-over' states prosper by repelling leftist incursion, receives the final nail in its coffin - Time has literally run out, at least in the older computer systems, and only then do they realize maybe, just maybe, they should have hired people based on merit, and not on race or gender, that they did in fact need all of those vo-tech people to do proper embedded engineering paired with genuine computer science, and not the new-age feel-goodery of how algorithms are racist.
Well, they did in the remaining Free States, anyway.
Totally. Just gotta sit back and watch the show, you know, popcorn and whatnot.
You should totally go for that one. Based on this short one, I'm betting you'd produce a really good book out of it.
A sprawling conurbation had sprung up in the 2020s, stretching from New York City to Washington and growing.
Crime had skyrocketed in the overcrowded sprawl, escalating to the point where an alliance of street gangs under the P Street Posse raided the White House itself and successfully intimidate juries into acquitting them.
This lead to the rollout of the Judges in 2031 - a proposal backed by the citizens, who voted out the congressmen who opposed Eustace Fargo and President Guerney's plan.