Refuge

The continents have been reconnected. In the near dystopian future, ( about 2500) at the age of ten all children go to an academy to learn and develop. Once there, you never see your family ever again. The goal of this rigorously prestigious institution is to force people into a specific category of work based on intelligence. The people who run the academy are trying to control the world by turning everyone into a mindless dependent zombies, arranging everyone's entire life. Those who cannot be controlled (Refuges) are deported to a different institution in Europe for it to be determined whether they are Exclusions or Soldiers. Exclusions are extremely intelligent and are either killed, contained, or studied to see what makes them able to resist the Elite. Soldiers are treated as prisoners and trained to defend the Elite Tower, and hunt down Runaways, escaped Refuges. The system is flawless, until Aria, is mistaken for a Soldier. This breach allows her to train and enlighten Soldiers around her to the scheme around them. Aria plans to convert as many Soldiers as she can to Activists, a new clan determined to get to Australia, the only continent still separated, which is now wild lands. Once there, she must help plan how to take the Elite down.