Philippines: Year 2300
The Time when Philippines are divided into three factions akin to the caste system; First, the Bid. This group signifies the lowest and poorest of citizens. Secondly, are the Commoner. They are the middle class citizens of the society. And lastly, on top of the pyramid are the Bidders. Why Bidders? They are qualified to buy Bids or even Commoners in order to transfer their memory genes to them and become immortal.
This memory gene is invented by the company MEMO that is held by the current diplomatic government. It is an experiment of Europe that passed and is used by Bidders to live for who knows how many centuries.
This system of transferring memories of a person to a living body does seem like terrible concept and has been protested by the Bid's on the government countless of times but nobody in the government payed them any heed. After all, all of them have memory gene's and they are benefiting from it. And also because of this, bodies are heavily sought after in the Black Market. Some Bid's are also using this as a business to earn money. They will reproduce many times and when a child hits the age of five, they are instantly sold to those Bidders. If the Bid had a beautiful, handsome or healthy stature, His or her price would rise.
The memory gene is mostly used by the whole world. Every country buys this hard drive-like device that is installed in the back of the neck of a Bidder. This device will store every memory of the entire life of the wearer.
Death still cannot be escaped during this time, because human lifespan was reduced to 50 years only. This is mostly cause by the nuclear weapons used when World War 3 occurred where America bombed China because of China's rash actions where it was conquering proclaimed Chinese lands on the continent of Asia. This greatly affected the continent of Asia and Europe. The European Government decided to make a device that can make a humans lifespan increase from the amount of 50, it would be boosted to 100 or more. Unfortunately, the Department of Medicine and Science cannot support this idea. Every scientist on the world had no inkling on how to increase one's lifespan.
Year 2202, a scientist who is well-trained in psychology and activities of the human brain, named Dr. Welder Freuch, made the device that was named memory gene. He transplanted a hard drive at the back of the neck of one of his patients to record the patients most precious memories. Unfortunately the patient died but this provided a good result. He transferred this hard drive to another human. There was an immediate effect on the host, the host sometimes suffer from delusions while other times he suffers from a split personality. Not later, the host became crazy and this resulted in the host committing suicide. Dr. Welder never stopped the experiment which resulted in many deaths of humans who were poor and sold their bodies for a measly price. When Dr. Welder ran out of money, he approached the government of Britain asking to continue the experiment which Dr. Welder guaranteed that could increase human's lifespan for another's life which could also solve overpopulation. The government of Britain approved of his suggestion but it still didn't stop the peoples wrath. He was criticized and was called 'mass murderer' by the masses but that didn't stop him. After more experimentation, there was a result so the company MEMO was established which is ran by the government of Europe and Dr. Welder. Some countries were furious at Dr. Welder and they had him assassinated. Dr. Welder was killed but his memory gene was transplanted to a young boy. To everyone's surprise there were no complications what-so-ever and Dr. Welder appeared healthier than before. Thus that made Dr. Welder the first successful living specimen of his own invention, the memory gene.
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Because of this product, Philippines became afraid. The government was afraid of the future because the Philippines was a poor country. They were afraid that the whole country would become Bids and other countries would buy them. The government tried to amass billions of pesos and funds in order to buy the installation gear of MEMO. This resulted in a widespread corruption in the country. There was a time when the funds were stolen and this resulted to poverty. And even though the country is suffering at this time, they still made it and bought the product. The president of the Philippines which is named Nico Rivera is the first Filipino that had installed a memory gene to himself. Eventually, the fear of Philippines did happen and the country plummeted and the poverty in the country worsened. The caste system which ruled the whole world was started by this device, and the number of Bids are increasing.
Johan Klein, 21 years old, a Bidder which grew up in the Philippines never really liked some of the details of this system. His mother was a Filipino but his father came from London. His family is rich where his mother was a Commoner and his father was a Bidder. His father also has big contributions to the company MEMO. They were stockholders because of some knowledge that was shared by his father. His father was a I.T. expert and he wants him to follow his footprints. Their family is also has power, politically, because his older brother is a senator. If you think about it, this was already quite good. But he never wanted to put a memory gene on the back of his neck. There was something wrong in the system of MEMO. One time he barely held out his rage when he saw the black market selling children. This is the system now and it seems that it is also legal.
He is the only one who doesn't have a memory gene in the family. It's not that he disagrees with the position of his father in the company. It's just that he feels sick just by thinking about buying those Bids. What if I'm the one that will be sold tomorrow? He can't do anything other than to hide his secret to other Bidders, that he is not using a memory gene. This leads to his hobby of wearing jackets that has hoods in order to cover the back of his neck.