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“With the loss of such a large chunk of the world population, militaries returned to slash and burn methods as they retreated, further damaging the environment. And, the loss of population also meant a decline of workers, which had a devastating domino effect on industry and those manufacturers that supplied the war machines. This resulted in rapidly failing economies throughout the world which then ultimately birthed the complete shutdown of governments, and politicians turning their backs on their own people as they went into hiding. “By 2029, the great wars were already looking like they were beginning their death throes. Armies no longer had the manpower to keep fighting due to having taken heavy mass casualties throughout 2027 and …show more content…

“With a world population down below five percent from what it was originally before the wars and that number expected to plummet to below one percent, the apparatuses seemed like a viable, if not only, option for the continuation of humankind. With the planet’s current dire state, polluted and destroyed, day-to-day survival had become utter misery at best. So, at least, being imprisoned in a pod, in the simulated paradise that it provided, didn’t seem all too bad an option. “The first of the pods were initially put into production on a full-scale effort sometime in the summer of 2029 just as the great wars had ended. Their manufacture, at the time, had used up what was left of the government’s available resources to do so, but they got it done, and the first of the survivors entered in internment on November 3, 2029. “Soon, pod facilities started to spring up throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada. At least, what was left of those places. And, by March of 2030, more than half of the surviving population of the planet—those who could afford the enormous cost of a pod—were actively sealed away in I.I.L.A.s. “The apparatuses, however, didn’t just come with a heavy price tag, though, Phillip. They came with a maintenance cost as well. Someone one had to stay behind and preserve the integrity and infrastructure of the pod’s mechanical and

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