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yourself by hoping for a past that you cannot reclaim. Instead look inside of yourself to find a strength you never knew existed and look towards the future. We will recover and be stronger and better than we ever were before, but not for ourselves. We will join together as a country and work together and suffer through the hardships together for our children’s children. Over the next several weeks, months and years, there will be many difficult rules and laws imposed that must be followed, not for our benefit, but for their sake. I will not lie to you: we have many years of struggle and suffering ahead of us, but if we join together, we can succeed. This day will go down in history not as the day we lost everything, but the day we began to rebuild.”
    President Touffe was true to his word. Over the next several weeks and years, he invoked many rules and laws that even under a dictatorship would have seemed insane. At times, there seemed to be no rhyme or reason behind his actions, except to inflict more cruelty on the American people. But when disobeying meant an empty stomach and eventually death, you followed the rules. Everyone was given a small ration of food and assigned a work duty. It was simple: if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. And everyone was put to work, too, from the smallest child to the most ancient of grandparents. Touffe found a task for all of them.
    First he reclaimed farmland throughout the country. People were forced out of their spacious homes, and relocated to live in the skyscrapers of the city. Buildings that once housed cubicles and cubicles of office space were converted into living space. The abandoned homes were disassembled for their materials, and the land was plowed in order to grow crops.
    Next he started the manufacturing transformation. Long abandoned factories were given new life and new purpose. If the country didn’t have the natural resource to manufacture a product, it did without it or found an alternative resource.
    At this point the basic needs of the people were at least being met. Rations were increased, and starvation became a less common cause of death. But the workloads increased too, because now the real rebuilding began. The old streets, pipelines, water systems and everything else were torn apart, state by state. The results were unpleasant, but the citizens had to endure. President Touffe viewed it as motivation to complete the necessary tasks faster.
    President Touffe was determined to have the United States completely self-sufficient for all of its basic needs. Wind and solar farms were erected to supply our electricity. Water conservation and recycling systems were created. At the same time, entire cities were reconstructed in orderly grids. He even had the foresight to leave extra space for future growth and expansion.
    By the time the construction neared completion, President Touffe was an old man, and his health was failing. But before he passed away, he created our current education system. He knew a society could not survive without a lower-class workforce, but he was reluctant to condemn any group to an existence with no hope of improvement. The education system he built was his remedy for that. It doesn’t matter what level you are born to: if you work hard enough any level is possible.
    During his lifetime President Touffe was hated and despised by most, but he kept his military well fed and supplied to maintain his control and he reshaped our nation. He created the blueprint for today’s society, starting from the bottom up. And in the end, the United States recovered and became the glorious leading nation it is today. The rest of the world looks to us with envy as they still struggle to recover from their economic crashes that resulted from ours.
    And today President Touffe is celebrated every year on Rebuilding Day as a national hero.

 
    Chapter 3
     
    I must have fallen asleep, because the next thing I knew, my mom was shaking me.
    “Are they