Quarantine

The first thing that popped into my head when I heard the topic was on control was quarantine and with quarantine, an apocalyptic story. I have been playing this apocalyptic video game where a society was disastrously changed when an infection broke out and how the government and the military handled the situation. They built quarantine zones in the major cities to stop this outbreak. Though this outbreak turned people into deadly fungal killing machines, mine killed off people like a wildfire. The control aspect of my story comes from the quarantine zones - which are protected areas to stop infection from spreading, controlled by the government and the military. The rations of food and other general commodities - clothing, gasoline, electricity, water, etc. At the end of my story you learn that the disease itself is control, also known as population control. Starting from the CDC in Atlanta and moving outward, killing off the people in the cities and then gathering more people to infect and kill off, leaving children for new generation. The devices used by the Beetles is how the government controls the disease to prevent it from becoming uncontrollable. But we all know that never happens!