A large group of influential scientists and well-educated, wealthy families got together and offered to purchase some of the more isolated properties and land owned by the larger country, thus relieving part of the financial burden.
Yet another country, far across the sea, backed the plan of the wealthy families because they wanted to freely trade goods with this newly formed group, and they would get some of the borrowed debt back.
The land was sold off… and The Committee came to be an independent government, run on that chain of isolated islands. After seeing how well The Committee reared its Citizens, the country far across the sea wanted the same.
The drugs that The Committee’s scientists were able to create, the methods to gain such dedication and control over their Citizens, and t
