Board Thread:AU Suggestions/@comment-25611136-20150804100451

Setting: Barfield, Lebeaux, Blackwood + Miduna Beach (although the dystopian society covers all of America)

Genre: Dystopian/Science Fiction/Apocalyptic

Plot: 

Basically, this group of people called 'The Backbone' are in control of everything that goes on in America. They don't let anyone new in or out. No one in the rest of the world can see America as it actually is, because The Backbone are waiting until America is 'perfect' in their view, until they unleash their 'masterpiece' to the world. I'm not quite sure if The Backbone actually think they're doing good to their people, or if they are purposely making life hard.

The Backbone society is almost like people trying to understand how to deal with and accept diversity, but really they're making things worse. They let people change genders, but not be gender fluid, marry their own gender etc. They also accept all races equally, according to them, but really they do't let anyone new come to America so in the end they don't really have diversity in that sense. They have microchips in their citizens heads sine after they turn three. They look at this data and check people aren't dangerous, see what kind of personality they have, what talents they have (for careers) and what people they might be into. Everyone is married off with someone (yet again, failing at the diversity thing) when they're 22 years old. They have to stay together. They have a choice to have one or two children. They have to have at least one, and if they have more than two (e.g. multiple births), then one child is chosen to be killed.

There is a school for each gender in each place (Barfield, Lebeaux, Miduna Beach and Blackwood Mountain). Kids have to start school when they're three. Up until they're five, it is like intensive kinder garden stuff, which is every second day for six hours. This is when The Backbone starts monitoring skills that people may have. Then, when children turn five (this all happens according to birthday, not year start dates and they have no holidays) they go to what is called an Elementary School, but is really more like High School here. When kids turn 10, they must leave their house to go board at their school. Children are expected to study a little in all areas until they turn 15, then they study only in the areas required for their job and one other area of their choice. Jobs are assigned to 8 year olds. Jobs can be anything from digging, to washing to entertaining. Most people are stuck with their job for the rest of their life, but some get the opportunity to change jobs when they turn fifteen. This is for people whose skills change a bit as they get older.

The Backbone choose everyone's meals because they all have regular medical checks and The Backbone know their needs. Portion sizes are very much less than generous. These tests along with the microchipping basically mean that citizens have no private lives. Citizens who try to hide anything at all from The Backbone get three chances. The first time they just get a warning, the second they get a status as a criminal and they have a lot of basic rights taken away from them. Third warning is being locked up and if anything bad happens after that, people get killed.

People who live in The Backbone's society don't really know any other life. All areas are equal and all cities made the same size. There is not one single part of America that The Backbone is not in control of. Not one part. The only ones who know much of another life would be the last immigrants, in about 2003. Or people whose family members passed on stories. Really, this shouldn't happen and if The Backbone find out the families would get a warning.

Anyone with even a common cold will be taken to hospital and quarantined. Terminal ilnesses like cancer don't exist anymore because The Backbone's doctors found cures. This is often used as an argument if anyone tries to agrue against The Backbone's moralities. Things like altzeimers don't exist anymore because everyone is killed at the age of 75, before their memory can deteriorate too much.  