On Conglomerate Education

The Conglomerate Government of Souvern Novarica, Incorporated believes in the potential of every citizen. Primary education is guaranteed, beginning at age six across Exurbs, Suburbs, and Citadel centers alike. Students who demonstrate early aptitude are promoted to upper classes and, in some cases, transferred closer to the heart of their home Citadel. No citizen goes uneducated.

The Conglomerate is very proud of this.

For students whose genetic evaluations place them above average, the path continues. The Academy at Antioch, known to its students as Triple A, represents the pinnacle of Conglomerate education: rigorous, prestigious, and designed to prepare its graduates for the most demanding positions of service available.

Stratton Library alone houses the largest collection of pre-Conglomerate scientific archives in the known world. To walk those halls is to understand what the Conglomerate has built, and what it has decided to preserve.Primary education costs citizens nothing. Triple A operates on a deferment scholarship model: no upfront cost, with fees deducted from future discretionary income. An investment in your future, repaid from the credits you earn serving the system that educated you.

The Conglomerate calls this support.

In the world of The Algorithm of Life, education is where systemic control begins its quietest work. What gets taught at Triple A, what gets archived in Stratton Library, and what gets left out of the curriculum entirely are questions that follow Clementine Jones long after graduation. Rebellion rarely starts with a weapon. More often, it starts with a student who begins to notice the gaps in what they were told.