Afterward, citing "the imminent threat of invasion by extraterrestrial civilizations," the Federal Congress enacted the harshest wartime control bill in history.
The decree announced the complete abolition of private ownership.
All bank deposits, real estate, and means of production owned by individuals and corporations worldwide were confiscated without compensation and placed under the ownership of the Human Federation.
Food and daily necessities were placed under a strict real-time rationing system.
Every morning, ordinary citizens could only take the digital ID cards issued by the Federation and stand in long lines for hours to receive a ration barely sufficient to sustain life.
Immediately afterward, the Federal President announced a mad construction plan over all channels.
To build an interstellar fleet and space stations capable of resisting alien invasion, the Federation would select sites worldwide and construct one hundred massive super military-industrial complexes.
The decree stipulated that all male and female citizens worldwide between the ages of eighteen and sixty had to accept compulsory labor assignments.
Batch after batch of people were stripped of their original jobs and lives, then transported like livestock to the super factories rising from the ground.
They performed sixteen hours of intense manual labor every day, with no holidays and no wages—only the bare minimum rations needed to survive.
The moment this was announced, the entire world was in uproar.
How was this the formation of a Human Federation? This was plainly the direct enslavement of billions of people!
People finally realized the gravity of the situation.
This was not merely a change of regime. It was one-sided enslavement.
Escape!
It was the only thought in everyone's mind.
Countless refugees fled with their families toward airports, ports, and border crossings.
Their only destination was America, which, although it had implemented harsh new policies, had at least not