Anthem

Council of Vocations the group of rulers whose

specific function is to decide an
individual's occupation. By
forcing the best young minds
into manual labor, the leaders
hope to quell any potential
intellectual dissent to their
regime.

Home of the Infants Children liive here until age 5

Home of the Scholars. the residence of intellectuals

and scientists whose task is to
gain knowledge and discover
new truths

House of Correction Detention the prison to which Equality

(Palace of Corrective Detention) 7-2521 is taken after he is
discovered absent from the
theater. The prison, as virtually
everything in this backwards
society, is delapidated, posing
no difficulty to Equality 7-2521's
escape when the time is right.

Palace of Mating the building where the

state-controlled breeding
occurs. Sex is prohibited in this
society except under the
authority of the government,
which permits it only for
purposes of procreation.

Time of Mating the period each spring when

the state sends all men older
than 20 and all women older
than 18 to spend one night in
the Palace of Mating. Babies
are born every winter but are
immediately taken from their
mothers and raised by the state.
The children never know who
their parents are, and the
parents do not know who their
children are.

Uncharted Forest heavily wooded area just

outside the city and extends for
many miles in distance. Many
 such unexplored forests range
across the land and are
believed to have grown over the
ruins of the cities of the
Unmentionable Times.

Home of the Leaders.

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House of the Candle Makers.
Home of the Street Sweepers.

Home of the Useless. where the elderly of this society

are sent at 40 years of age.
They are thought to be too worn
with toil to be of further use to
society. This society is so
lacking in knowledge of
nutrition, medicine and science
that the life expectancy has
shrunk back into the early 40s.

Home of the Peasants. place of residence for the

women who toil in the fields
outside of the city limits. Liberty
5-3000 lives here with the other
women who engage in the work
of farming.

Home of Students Where children live ages 5-14

for their ten years of schooling

City of the Damned city in which Prometheus and

Gaea formerly resided, and
from which they fled.

City Theater the large tent in which are

performed plays for the social
recreation of the workers. The
plays are about the virtues of
toil and the need to sacrifice
oneself for one's brothers.

Council of Eugenics state agency that governs all

sexual activity and procreation.
Its members determine who will
sleep with whom, based on the
best interest of the state, not the
happiness of the men and
women involved. If all vestiges
 of individuality and personal
choice are to be expunged, then
the Council must be certain that
the sexual partners have no
attachment to, or feelings for,
each other.

Council of the Home the leaders of the particular

barracks where a group of
persons reside. Because this
society supposedly has no
individuals, all decisions are
made by a sub-group that
controls the larger group.

Equality 7-2521 Protagonist

(Prometheus)

Transgressor of the martyr for the word “I.”

Unspeakable Word

Liberty 5-3000 Love interest of Equality 7-2521

the Golden One, and later, (Prometheus)
Gaea.

International 4-8818 views Equality 7-2521 as a

prophet

World Council of Scholars. the society of thinkers and

scientists made up supposedly
of the world's greatest minds.
But since the political rulers
value only obedience, the best
thinkers (like Equality 7-2521)
are excluded, leaving the World
Council filled with a group of
unthinking conformists.

Collective 0-0009

World Council a global government that rules

the entire world. In this world of
the future, individuals possess
no rights. The World Council is
the highest governing body, the
ultimate set of rulers who
dictate policy to the rest of the
world.