Post by Michael Sawyer on Apr 23, 2008 20:48:18 GMT -5
The year is 20008. The Earth has just moved out of an ice age and as the ice melted, the Earth flooded. Now only 2% of the Earth's surface is above sea level. The human race existed in mere hundreds but has done its best to set up home on whatever dry land is available. Cities have sprung up all over the world, on the summit of hills and mountains, too high for the water to reach them. By far the grandest of these cities is Camelot, known throughout the world as The Golden City.
Somewhere above what in the pre-flood times was France, Camelot is ruled over by King Arthur II and his wife. He and his father built the city from scratch and have ruled supreme ever since.
After global warming in the 21st Century caused the ice age, the world as a whole outlawed electricity, burning fossil fuels and using man-made transport. Instead, people burn wood for heat and warmth, use horses and oxen for transport and play games and sing songs to entertain themselves. Their existence may be simple, but with such harsh laws bearing down on them, no one would ever have the courage to step out of line.
King Arthur, on his father's death, introduced his own set of laws to his fledgeling kingdom; Licencing Laws. By limiting everything from reproduction to farming, Arthur gained complete control over his land and people, ensuring that Camelot was and would stay the greatest city in the world.
However, with breeding and marriage prohibited, young, fertile and licenced girls are in high demand and a sordid trade has sprung up; families selling off their licenced virgins to rich, influential men. In today's society, this is the only way to climb the social ladder. Arranged marriages are the norm, especially as the licencing process costs too much to be attempted by any young couple without their parents support.
This, as one can imagine, is not a popular law with the lower class citizens and as Arthur moves into his tenth year of reign, there is unrest in the Golden City. What will happen, who can tell?
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