The Happiness Equation
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Last published Sun, Jun 3, 2012
Set in a near future dystopian Britain. The population has reached its epoch and is now going into decline. Birth-rates are very low, the population is ageing, and the society is divided between the privileged who carry on as normal and the rest who are made to struggle. The surplus population is feared in society. They are kept barely under control, but population and resource pressures are putting a strain on them. They are ready to burst into action. Will the countries governments bubble be burst also? In the background lurks the Geneticist movement, challenging the very moral fabric of society. Can the government hold onto its reins, or will civilisation itself dissolve into chaos?
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