Extended Reading

The Humanity Bureau quotes

  • Title Card: After economic catastrophe and climate change came famine, the great migration, and the civil war.

    Title Card: Society collapsed. Manufacturing and industrial production of food and goods ceased. America built walls around itself and its cities.

    Title Card: The government gave sweeping powers to a single agency whose task was to assess and separate those citizens who were deemed a burden on the system.

    Title Card: The agency was know as... THE HUMANITY BUREAU.

  • [first lines]

    Automated Voice: [coming from his mobile device] You are reaching... Reaching... Reaching... Arrived. You have left the security perimeter of New America. Your safety is no longer guaranteed.

    [flying drone escort turns back]

    Noah Kross: [dictating] Agent Noah Kross. Leaving security perimeter A57. Please record and confirm the following: I'm aware of the danger. I'm making this trip of my own free will and without coercion. I'm aware of all Humanity Bureau procedures including subsection 2355. Send all incoming messages to my voicemail. I will retrieve them... upon my safe return. End communication.