Like so many ideologies before them, WAR had become the exact reverse for all it had said and stood for.
It now held an iron grip worldwide on its people: owning personal and very particular information via tracking, banking, sickness and medication histories, distributing through their International Pharmaceutical company, Paypill.
WAR imprinted the lives of two-thirds of the overall population, and held a massive five hundred million in prison farm factories, who supplied their empire daily.
Perhaps none of this would have mattered so much had it not been for the political arrests and property seizures from conversants who were monitored through email, Tracebook and the game itself. Any dissent - even a suggestive cartoon shared - was considered ambivalent, and therefore dangerous to society.
Added to this, suicides were increasing. No one knew why. Statistics stopped being published after the figure tripled within a decade - and the public were told that for the sake of privacy these numbers would from now on be sealed.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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