After the Third Global Resource War in 2058, relentless nuclear warfare caused the global climate model to collapse completely. The main grain-producing regions became saline wastelands, crops failed, and synthetic nutrient supplements became the only option. At first, weight control really was a matter of survival: fewer than two billion people remained, and any extra calorie consumption could cause the rationing system to collapse. But technology had advanced considerably over the past thirty-five years, while controls only grew stricter. Now they were primarily a means of rule. In 2088, the National Survival Security Act was enacted as an emergency measure. Traditional agriculture was deemed an outdated, resource-intensive, inefficient model with no future, and forcibly abolished! All biological resources were placed under the control of the Unified Allocation Center, the predecessor of the Weight Management Bureau. Its core principle: maximize the population’s chances of survival through absolute efficiency in resource allocation! Each citizen’s energy consumption and contribution had to be quantified and monitored. The weight-monitoring System was born, and the Unified Allocation Center was renamed the Weight Management Bureau...
