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1	A novel set in the far future and AfterTheEnd written by {{Tropers/Gasbarro}}.
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3	Mayor Calvin runs Jasper City with a ([[ChurchMilitant religious]]) iron fist. A man known as Citizen 71 has a problem with this, and hatches a secret plan to get rid of the current establishment. He also manages to convince his family to help him.
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5	There's just one problem: Citizen 71 is a wanted man. The newly promoted right hand man to Mayor Calvin, is specifically tasked with bringing him and his family down. Raising a family in hiding while plotting your opressors' demise, it seems, do not help keep one's sanity in check.
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7	Meanwhile, that right hand man Citizen A-17 is determined to show his loyalty to the Mayor and his ability to do his new job well. But while he investigates, he starts to have doubts as to whether he's doing the right thing. Between an iron-fisted dictator and a terrorist who's slowly slipping into insanity, it's tough to decide which side is really doing the right thing.
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10	!!This work has examples of:
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12	%%* ActionPrologue
13	%%* AfterTheEnd
14	* AndIMustScream: A-17's daughter is quickly headed in this direction, her illness getting so bad that she can't leave her bed and the slightest movements cause severe injury.
15	%%* ApocalypseHow: There is implied to have been a Class 2 catastrophe before the story starts.
16	%%* BigBad: Mayor Calvin is set up as this.
17	%%* BigScrewedUpFamily
18	* BlackAndGrayMorality: At the start, the Mayor seems to be the king of puppy kickers, making 71 look good by comparison. Then 71's refusal to reveal the details of his plan casts some doubt on him. And when you look into the history between 71 and the Mayor, things get even muddier.
19	%%** [[spoiler:EvilVersusEvil]]
20	%%* CainAndAbel
21	* CharacterDevelopment: A-17 goes from BlackShirt to seriously considering a way to overthrow his boss to his boss' errand boy, just as Mayor Calvin wanted. 71 turns from outcast political rival to batshit crazy. The yet unwritten {{Prequel}} will show this character development in more detail.
22	%%* CrapsackWorld
23	%%* DesertPunk
24	%%* {{Deuteragonist}}: A-17.
25	%%* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:71.]]
26	* FantasticGhetto: Robot Town, for the Machines. Though the segregation was at least partly consensual, given the dramatic culture differences.
27	* FantasticRacism: Against the Machine Citizens, robots who have been given rights as official citizens. Many people, even Mechanics in the government, yearn for a time when robots were not equals.
28	* FantasticSlur: From the above, the very word "Robot" has become a slur.
29	* {{Hobos}}: The entire Phoenix family. In fact, it's how they got together in the first place.
30	%%* LaResistance
31	%%* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Cynthia/Citizen 83.
32	* MyOwnPrivateIDo: 71 finds out that his new love is pregnant, so he arranges a quick "ceremony" on top of a building with little more than an exchange of vows and a prayer.
33	%%* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:71. Though he doesn't go through with it.]]
34	%%* OrderVersusChaos
35	%%* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Definitely falls on the side of cynicism.
36	%%* TheDragon: A-17 is this to Mayor Calvin.
37	%%* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Part of the backstory between Mayor Calvin and Citizen 71.
38	%%* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized
39	%%* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified: At least from 71's perspective.
40	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: With a few scattered deviations, the story mostly alternates between Citizens 71 and A-17.
41	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Justified in that this is a far future setting, but it's somewhere in the American Midwest.
42	%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity
43	* YouAreNumberSix: Most of the characters have their names replaced with numbers. There are two reasons for this: Criminals are given numbers only, while government employees also have a letter to show their rank.
44	%%* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters

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