The Circle

The circle, every year every sixteen-year-old in the Capital are faced with the 3 stages, you pass you get to stay in the Capital, you fail you get sent to the circle, where is the circle you might ask? no one knows. at least the citizens of the Capital don't know where it is. No one wants to get sent there though, it's a huge landmass with different terrains and climates, you need to fend for your self, the amount of deaths that happen within the circle is astonishing, its the government's way to keep the population down. What are the 3 stages? well let me tell you, stage one, a truth serum, they inject you with the truth serum and ask all sorts of questions, they always change therefore you can never practise for it. if you lie the amount of pain you will feel is tremendous, you lie more than 3 times you fail that stage, you answer the questions truthfully but the answers aren't what the government want, you fail. stage number 2, combat and violence, you will be put in a room with trained fighters, you fight back well you pass, you fight back in hysterics, you fail, you don't fight at all you fail and get beaten up, however, if you fight back then surrender you pass. and finally the last stage, an exam, it is simply a test on all the government's rules and guidelines, this is the toughest one as there is 150 and to pass the exam you must get 150/150.