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communities. Criminals either stopped their lawless

ways, allowing themselves to be educated and retrained,

or the Rebels killed them. It was just that simple.

Strict, but extremely effective.

The Rebel army was made up of everybody who

lived in a Rebel society. Everybody over the

age of sixteen was in the Army. Period. You either

joined the Army, or were kicked out from under the

umbrella of Rebel protection and put out on your

own, your I.d. cards destroyed. And with that action,

you could not receive medical aid or buy supplies from

any outpost. When the towns came under attack, and

they occasionally did, every person living there was

expected to take part in the defense of that outpost.

There were many thousands of people who lived in what used

to be calledAmerica and refused to be a part of the

Rebel system of government. No one was forced

to join. More people lived outside the Rebel-controlled

towns than in them. But that was slowly changing

as those outside received absolutely no help

whatsoever from the Rebels. Life was difficult enough

inside the Rebel-held zones; outside the cleared
zones it was dangerous and extremely chancy.

So in dribbles and handfuls and sometimes entire

communities, citizens would contact the Rebels,

saying, "Okay. We can't make it out here without you