“We have replaced what God we knew with nanosilicates, ironed Him out with CRISPR. Tell me, will it take us all of eternity to find that whatever’s left of what we haven’t touched has been taken away from us? Whatever God had in mind has eluded us all ever since we threw him out of the equation.” “It was humanity’s pride that doomed us the first time.” And the second? Abundance. --- nth chapter: Prophets from Nearby Orchard Particular student gets poisoned when winery owner/prophet gives them samples on their field trip, winery owner says a ‘miracle' like it has not occurred since 2082, citing that a former pres. from that era went on to get voted in for the most terms consecutively in  history. Poisoned student is a grandchild of that same pres. Actual miracle occurs (highly unlikely event explainable only by mysterious Christ-figure they are taught was the New Institute’s founding mother and one of the heroes who died protecting true Christianity’s teachings.) Some people pray to Christ-figure like she is a saint. --- nth chapter: Living Quarters >VR technology makes sure the students themselves don’t know who they’re interacting with, discouraging intimate relationships that will ensure ‘equal treatment’ for everyone >a few experts/board members meet ‘anonymously’ i.e. no one has a set physical appearance as it is randomized by a VR AI. They discuss why this policy is even required >Reference to real world former president [segue to nonstandard POV form] >Meanwhile, students are shocked to find out that some former residents of their bedrooms have been expelled en masse or have died due to classified information (history overview through VR) --- nth chapter: Profiles Students, we find out, are not teenagers but people who have already ‘died’ and had their brains transported to another body, having agreed in their ‘previous life’ that they will have less rights than the citizens which they will govern >New, more humane method of choice for the New Institute of ____ is that they keep their memories of their previous life intact and have a Non-identity, a space in their skulls akin to a second brain that they will use for two months to govern at a time for six years, rotating with the other politicians voted in, while those who are not serving are in the VR mode with their previous memories, either in Paradise or Hellfire, based on their city’s performance >Previous profiles and histories of the New Institute’s selection process of actual tabula rasa newborns and raising them from the inside, selection process being that their brains are wired to be ace, pruning all the tendencies that lead to addiction, problematic attachment ‘nurturers’/healers  a.k.a. controlled environment that use A.I. --- nth chapter: The World Somewhere Near >School’s history further revealed: used to be closely allied with the Church of _____insert Christ figure name based on Pinoy vocab_____ >The need for politicians question  >Church of Many Crowns allied institute rewards/punishes students who graduate the program by first letting them into a trial version of a Heaven and Hell constructed in VR [as in John who witnessed visions of Heaven, and many other people in the Bible whose faith was strengthened by direct revelations from angels, etc.]. Those who complete the program [proponents of Rizal-like figure believe in a theology that The Messiah will not be ‘born’ but be possessed by the Holy Spirit, as the Christ in the Bible cannot be born twice. They also believe He will be a great leader.  >Even though the students know it’s VR, their memories are partially wiped to only contain the traces or the tune of a memory that will gradually reveal themselves as though they are ‘rewarded’ with feelings of Heaven or ‘punished’ with dread of Hell >Since not all of the students can be The Messiah, the institute has scouted the country for teenagers/babies who have been monitored since birth by a system that has logged their performance, and selected them based on a pseudo-scientific criteria that the eventual New Institute (with no allied religion) has proven inhumane and dangerous (based on a gene the babies have for a particular disease which you will invent). The process they insist on purportedly increases the likelihood that they will be governed by polymaths who are infused with the Spirit of God/agape and, like Jesus, will not take spouses, have children, or engage in anything that will cloud their judgment >Implicit: argument for/against technologically-assisted learning/inducting/brainwashing methods --- nth chapter: The World Outside Desecrated statue of a Rizal-like figure (loosely based on him)  >Students go on an out-of-school field trip with one or two of the more ‘rebellious’ students going to an area out of bounds >Missing students search >One of them is murdered and the other is severely injured >Brought back to the school for interrogation and disciplinary action once healed (future tech makes this faster) --- 1st Chapter?: Not Just Any Field Trip >Each student (there might only be ten in a batch) gets a chance to pick genetically modified-programmed mix of species from a museum that they will train/shepherd for an integrated biology-philosophy-___ class  >Constraints with portability means animals are scaled down to the size of microscopic proportions —> interact with citizens through device/phone/etc. >Mid-sized city-like population for each student > >If a certain student gets a certain score they can 3d print a representative population that could be bigger (like pet-size or ruler?) >Invent species >Ambitious student picks notoriously difficult mix of varying species that most of the time ends catastrophically —> anarchy, devastated city because of changes in climate caused by irresponsible previous administration, increased crime rates,  >Each town has its own history, culture,  >Possible: code a game