The War Is Over..Or Is It?

Chapter 1

Years before the war started, scientists had worried about overpopulation of the earth. Scientists estimated and conversed and experimented. They came with a plan that would lower the earth's population to a safe number. They posed the plan to the U.N. The scientists' plan was drastic and some countries would not pass the law. Some countries did take the precautions and instituted laws that allowed parents to only have one child and once the mother gave birth, doctors would remove her ovaries. Mothers who desired another child could adopt an orphan.

  In the beginning these laws were despised, but with each generation the laws came to be tolerated and then finally understood. Slowly the entire globe began to adopt these laws.  Yet the country which occupied most of North America believed in freedom to the extent that the law could not be passed. Years passed and the population of the country tried to have fewer children, but results were little. The rest the globe was benefiting from the law. Within eighty years of its institution, the results were evident; people had more space, wealth and food. Scientists set a year when people would be allowed to have two children which would keep the population at a plateau. 

Across the ocean, in North America the population had swelled. The tension in the masses was thick and dangerous. Rallies, riots and fights were a common thing throughout the most heavily populated areas. The borders of the country were often crossed legally and illegally as people began to realize how bad the state of the country was. The entire continent began to swell with each generation. Tension between the three countries which occupied the continent grew and grew and finally, while the rest of the globe enjoyed an even and controlled population, a war broke out along the borders as the americans fought each other for space to live. That was how the war started. 

The war raged on for decades and decades. Nearly sixty years after the war had started the governments were gone. The leaders had died, abandoned their countries or their term had ended and no one had been reelected. Congresses and parliaments were gone and the only institution that survived was religion mainly because many of the religious didn't fear death. The countries disintegrated and people began to fight for their lives. The cities were gone and destroyed and farmland was scarce. Food? Even scarcer. Borders meant absolutely nothing, so did race, religion, social class, age, and gender. If you survived, could fight and find food, then you were respected. Small, extremely hostile and dangerous communities developed. People would fight others for food, supplies or a good location to produce food. This deadly and fearful society dragged on for many years.

Then seventy-one years after the beginning of the war, an old scientists approached the people of North America. He had a plan to rescue their dissolved society. He got help from those who believed that it would work. Many years after starting the healing process the old scientist's plan worked. He had devised an neurological analysis that delved deeply into a persons mind and could catalog and process their personality and intelligence. Then the people would be placed into different groups. The groups were a loose institution. People could seek out re-analysis and be moved to another group, though people never were allowed to choose a group. However the groups never had contact with each other. Those in a group lived together and worked together. To be placed into a group your brain worked the same way as your fellow group mates. This made it that disputes could be easily avoided or rectified. The groups were a difficult change from the society before, yet the members tried to make it work and it did.

To rebuild their communities and economies, the groups met and discussed methods of rebuilding. The imaginative groups designed buildings. The handy groups built. The technological groups designed computers. Some groups farmed, others made things. Different groups had jobs that were assigned to them. It was up to the current leader and that group's council to assign those jobs and duties.

Five years after the new beginning, a mint was built and money was printed that was used instead of trading. The people knew how to rebuild and they knew what they wanted and now that everyone was beginning to have food and homes, they could get what they wanted.

A decade after the new beginning a huge movement forward was made. Public schools were built and all children aged five through sixteen attended. Before then, most children were taught by parents or the lucky ones were near a school which they paid for with extra food.

The fact that separated this method from others of its nature was that it was not strict. People could wear what they wanted, they could eat what they wanted, they could do what they wanted in their free time so long as it was legal. People generally like their jobs. And the elderly always would save money for themselves in retirement although most people worked until they were several years from death. Because the population was small due to the war, there were plenty of jobs and things to do.

After two decades, the roles of the leagues changed. The leagues began to again mix and work alongside each other and the analysis now would just inform you of your leaders and who you would answer to. Although people didn't like to say it because it sounded like it was too controlling, the analysis usually informed people the general area where they would have to live, whom would become their friends, what they would do in their free time and many other minor things of their life. People as always found the small unsatisfying parts of their lives and would whine. But everyone was much too afraid of another war to actually want something different. Those who were trouble makers usually just were banished or punished with a fine. The very heinous crimes were handed over to another country, because wisely the scientists knew that as such a young community it would be better for criminal decisions to be made by an impartial judge. Over the years, the society matured and eventually became self-sufficient.

The leagues became guilds and the leaders of the guilds became politicians in the sense that they helped form the laws of their guild. There was not a huge central government. Two representatives from each type of guild would be selected and they would serve in a council. The council didn't do very much because most decisions were made within a guild. If the teachers guild thought that the day should be shorter than a meeting of all the leaders of all the different teacher guilds and would be held and the decision would be made. It was a simplistic government and there were many pessimists who said it would fail. But, perhaps just to spite them, the new order succeeded.