2050

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It's 2050, and pandemics and pestilences are common and accepted. Everyone wears masks and goggles, and technology is highly advanced. Starting in 2030, there had been a worldwide campaign to get everyone microchipped by new science, so that everyone could be more connected. It was positively and widely received, and by 2045, all babies were routinely microchipped twice, once in the brain and the second in the right palm. The Government controls everything - when you are born, you are genetically tested, and compared to the other babies who are born in your cohort, and then you are programmed to marry them in order to improve the human race as The Government has a program to reduce obesity, improve life longevity and health, so that people have better immune systems to fight off the constant coming and going pandemics. This is also in order to ensure that less people constantly die, and the economy can become stronger, increasing life expectancy rates up to 100. Science has proven that pairing people from different parts of the world, who are genetically very different, yields the best results, and so people are often placed with someone from a totally different culture, and sometimes from across the world.