When a place's population gets too large, one of four things will happen. The first is war; the second is a natural disaster; the third is a plague; and the fourth is somebody will come up with a heavy, hard, and dark solution because they have to.
Such methods include the fictional "hunger games", methodically or systematically dwindling the numbers of total population, placing a birth limit on parents, and preferring one sex over the other.
The place this story is set in is no exception. The only thing is it is the whole planet. Every person born on this planet known as Dracosapia is guaranteed progeny, both male and female. Also dracosapiens can have up to five kids at a time.
As you might expect that puts quite the toll on a planet. Even though this planet regenerates resources, to maximum capacity, every 1000 years, it still proved inadequate. The birth rate was too fast.
Wars happened quite frequently, as the inhabitants would run out of resources in a moments notice. One dracosapien knew of this problem and made up his mind that he would fix this. After countless lives were lost, and countless more hours upon days upon weeks of thinking, he finally came up with a working solution. His idea: planetary hunger games.
First Dragonno made himself planetary ruler. Then he set up groups to help govern the people by, including a law making group and several groups dedicated in one way or another to the death games. Several attempts were made on the new rulers life, all of them ending in failure.
Much time went by but he eventually gained respect and his system became part of global culture. His game then split into three categories: prisoner, (sex/gender) balance, and (population) purge. All of these subsets Hunter, the main character, is bored with.
Hunter, now a senior in high school and 18, wants something to do, something to entertain him, to fill him, to give him purpose because the games are boring, cliché, the buzz of every group to him. One day, a person of mixed species offers him the chance to explore, travel, do something.
Does he take the offer? Does he refuse? What does he do? What were his motives and what would happen if he said yay or nay? So many questions, but only reading on will give those answers.
