Becoming a Citizen involved a declaration of personal responsibility and a commitment to the preservation of civilisation. There were those who never took up Citizenship, denizens, and those who were denied membership, criminals. Criminals, by definition, were ones who actively rejected the mandate of the WU and fought against it. Terrorism, hakking and destabilisation actions were enough to strip a person of Citizenship and have them isolated on the man-made islands of polyplastic, far from the shores of the continents, botlocked and mood-controlled. The Will determined what was and wasn’t a crime. The Will decided what was anathema. Most infringements of proper behaviour were treated with conditioning and rehabilitation, which brought aberrant Citizens back into proper behavioural alignment, so there was very little crime. Social engineering had removed most of the motivators for antisocial behaviour, as base services had for deprivation, removing the desperate motivations of the underprivileged.
