The year: 2037. The place: USA. If you are born cis male into the middle class, every precaution is taken to make sure that you’re never exposed to negative emotions or adult materials until you’re 30. Everyday you must smile at all times to feed the emotional needs of your birthing person. The world now looks and functions like Disneyland.
All men, aka semen producers, take pills at the onset of puberty to obstruct their sexual desires and stop any semen production. Sex is evil and should never happen. Only men deemed gentle enough to reproduce are moved to a semen harvesting facility where they stop their medications and produce the needed genetic material. Once the semen is harvested, a birthing person is matched to the donor via an algorithm that ensures gentleness. The chosen semen producer will be castrated after the birth of the necessary number of emotional supply vehicles for the birthing person. The semen producer will serve as the lifelong assistant to enact all the birthing person’s whims, such as setting up petting zoos at birthday parties, bringing the birthing person a glass of Chardonnay to wash down her antidepressants, and to make whimsical craft projects go off without a hitch.
There is an icky side to this world, a necessary evil, a group living in the distance, never to be seen, but referred to as ‘The Fornicators’. These lowly humans are needed to do manual labor, silently enforce the rules, and keep the infrastructure together. They live in trailer parks outside the major cities and engage in all types of debauchery. Long ago, the semen producers and birthing persons became incapable of manual labor, but did not lose the ability to control the Fornicators with passive-aggression and their mental strength. The goal is to live for over 100 years. Over 100 years of smiling, eating vegan hot dogs, play musical chairs, watching cartoons, being gentle at all times, never even killing a bug, never experiencing carnal pleasure, and most importantly never disagreeing with a birthing person. Sounds like a paradise, right?