When All Else Has Failed...RUN...
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2038, you would think the human race would be better off than it was 20 or so years ago... Yes and No.
Yes, they have found a universal cure for disease, yes, arts and culture are at an alltime high.
But poverty and the wage gap are at an alltime high as well, and people have found a new gameshow to watch on TV, "RUN" a mixture of The Hunger Games and The Amazing Race, with a twist. The contestants must run from groups of armed men while those at home place bets on the winner, they must go around the world to complete several tasks. To win, they must survive. To lose? Is to die. And they do this all while trying to remember who they even are. It is proven to be dangerous --Deadly -- Yet the poor sign themselves up in droves. For, to RUN means fame and fortune for the winner, and for those who lost it means only the former.
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