After the Great Reduction, a new era began. The Living was born: humanity turned into a single, constantly reproducing organism. “The number of the Living is constant”—so it is said in the Book of Life.
The Living equals three billion—no more, no less. The Living is happy. The Living is benevolent. The Living is immortal… You are also immortal. The Living created a new world for you. In this world it doesn’t matter who your biological ancestor was—it matters who you were in your previous life, before the Pause. In this world there are no countries, cities, or borders, no religions or nations, no wars or terror. It’s a wonderful, stable world in which you always have a connection to the Socio.
A global network is in your brain—it makes you part of the whole…
But one day, an extra appears in this world. A baby without a past, increasing the population by one. Who is he—your new friend in the Socio, or an enemy who will destroy the Living?