2062
Private ownership is a thing of the past. The year is 2062. The State regulates everything for its citizens, rations are doled out regularly at what were once large grocery store chains. Citizens are evaluated before they reach adulthood and are given a Government Assigned Occupation (GAO). Currency doesn't exist anymore, at least not in the physical world. In an unregulated part of the internet, the dark web, anonymous individuals use digital cryptocurrencies to buy and sell all kinds of contraband: Art, uncensored writings, unlicensed laptops, illegal programs such as TOR and TailOS, and even drugs and weapons. Kevin McAffee is a dark web vendor, he started out by selling just Third Eye, a psychedelic but has expanded his stock to include amphetamines, empathogens, and other mind altering substances. Kevin's GAO was at his local post office, which made sending out packages that had illegal substances hidden in them just a little bit easier. He was approached with the business idea on the Holo-net, a government run virtual space where people could connect with friends and family and even interact with strangers in the safety of their own home. For the past few years it has been illegal to leave your house with a Permit of Transit, approved by The State of course. More and more revolutionary factions had begun to spring up in opposition to The State, and at this point people only left their houses to go to their GAO or pick up rations from The State run superstores, so nobody really reacted when just being outside was now considered “suspicious activity.”
