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To try to solve an Overpopulation Crisis, governments may limit the total number of children a person or couple can have. There are a number of variations on this. Sometimes every couple is allowed a fixed number (frequently two); other times, the number allowed is tradable, luck-based, or determined by some kind of eugenic principle (parenting skills are less commonly judged). Enforcement methods may range from punitive taxes on extra children, through mandated birth control and sterilization upon the birth of the last child allowed, to outright killing of excess population. These dystopias always seem to assume stable long term marriages, they usually offer some number of children per couple. Second marriages are ignored. Only very rarely does it actually work. Often it signals a descent into dystopia. It's also very common for the protagonist to be a child who exceeds the population cap. Or it can work too well, ending up with a Childless Dystopia. This trope is most common in literary science fiction from the '60s and '70s; it died out as a trope because while it had its heyday in fiction, the post-World War II Baby Boom came to an end as living standards and opportunities for women in North America and Western Europe expanded and people chose to have fewer children starting later in life. Since then, the pattern has held and spread to other parts of the world, largely making this a Dead Horse Trope. Because population growth is considered by some to be a problem in Real Life, fictional Population Control is seldom directed toward encouraging or mandating births, either among some groups or the entire population. Inversions occasionally do crop up in works in which a Depopulation Bomb, Robot War, mass infertility or other threat has made humans an Endangered Species. The entries on this page mainly concern keeping the population down by preventing pregnancies (through birth control or sterilization) or preventing illegal children (through abortion or infanticide). In some works of fiction, the government attempts to prevent pregnancies and control the population through banning sex or promoting/enforcing homosexuality. In some cases population laws are repealed or at least slackened when the capacity for interstellar colonization is achieved. See Also: Kill the Poor, for one instance where this trope is selectively applied, and Darwin Awards, for accidentally self-inflicted examples. |
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Sister: This animated short consists of a man's memories of growing up with his little sister—until the end when he reveals that his little sister was never born. Her mother aborted a pregnancy that would have been his little sister, due to China's One Child Policy. | |
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In Twig, it's revealed that one of the major future plans of the Academy of Evil is the implementation of universal sterilization that only the Academy can cure, allowing them to selectively control which individuals reproduce by choosing who to give out the cure to. This is only discovered when a disgruntled academy graduate initiates the program early and distributes information on it, resulting in massive popular unrest. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): The Sangtee Empire doesn't allow natural procreation of their subjects at all to control the population. Only state run cloning is legal, and all subjects are to be, or at least live publicly, as men or be enslaved. | |
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Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner has eugenically-based population control, with incredibly strict genetic screening requirements (e.g., people who carry color-blindness genes or genes correlated with schizophrenia are not allowed to have children). The title comes from the idea that, if you gave everybody on Earth something like two or three square feet, at the time of the story's start, they would just fit onto the island of Zanzibar. Even with the above, by the story's end, humanity would be well into the waters off Zanzibar... | |
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In the Inside Series by Maria V Snyder, the population is divided into two castes, the Uppers and the scrubs. Scrubs are encouraged to have as many children as possible and are denied birth control. Men and children who break the rules are executed, but fertile women who commit infractions become "breeders", kept chained down and constantly pregnant until their bodies give out from the strain. Uppers, on the other hand, are allowed one child per couple. If there's an accident with their birth control, the extra child is dyed to look like the scrubs' ethnicity and given to a scrub foster mother. The overlords use this to foster class division, telling the scrubs that the Uppers are spoiled rotten and telling the Uppers that the scrubs are too lazy and selfish to use birth control despite their overpopulation. | |
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In 2061 by Arthur C. Clarke it's explained that the one-child policy of China was eventually replaced by one where a person can have two children for free but any additional children cost a prohibitively-expensive fee which doubled with every additional child; one character, Sir Lawrence Tsung, is a multimillionaire who was able to afford to have ten children (his ninth child, William Tsung, has a shuttle craft named after him). | |
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In Fringe, the United States government in the Alternate Universe, has proposed a bill that would enact a two-child policy. While most citizens are opposed to the bill, members from two of the three major political parties support it. | |
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A major theme in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, where this is practiced in villages, planets and entire universes. | |
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In "The Machine Stops", humans live their entire adult lives in one-person underground cells in which all their needs are met. The global Machine that provides for them keeps the birth and death rates balanced by mandating encounters for procreative sex — the only time humans actually interact in the flesh — and by approving requests for euthanasia from the elderly, sick, or unhappy. | |
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The Combine from Half-Life 2 are more thorough and have a no child per family policy, enforced by suppression fields. By Episode 1, the machine that controls the suppression fields has been destroyed, and Dr. Kleiner broadcasts on hacked channels an encouragement to the remaining humans to procreate. | |
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The plot of The Bear and the Dragon is kicked off when a Vatican diplomat and a Baptist minister try to intervene in a late-term abortion mandated by China's one-child policy. They get killed for it, sparking international outrage (but the baby lives). | |
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The end of Methuselah's Children mentions that earth now has such an overpopulation problem that you need a license to have kids. Which is why earth needs Andy Libby's FTL drive. | |
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Inverted in Robot Jox which has the government using propaganda to encourage pregnancy after most of the world was devastated by World War III. | |
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In Attack on Titan, when a third of humanity's territory is overtaken by the titular giants, a fifth of the population— mostly refugees from the lost territory— is hastily conscripted for a suicidal counterattack. While the best-case scenario is obviously for the attack to succeed and the territory be retaken, the government barely even tries to conceal that the true objective is to reduce the population to free up food and resources for those that remain. It does not succeed, and the attack force is lost nearly to a man. | |
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In The 100, the Ark has a one-child policy in order to reduce its population and conserve resources. To this same end, it applies the death penalty towards even the most minor crimes, and if resources are becoming truly scarce, the Ark's government is authorized to start "culling" large swaths of the population. Octavia was actually an illegal birth, leading to her spending her life hiding in floor panels. She is caught the first time she leaves her room, leading to her arrest and her mother's execution. | |
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In Podkayne of Mars Marsmen apply to the 'Population, Ecology and Genetics' Board to be 'pegged' at a preset number of children, probably because of the necessity of not exceeding the support potential of the semi-terraformed colony. However none of the mentioned families seem to have any trouble getting the number they want. Podkayne's parents are in fact offered seven children but her mother prefers five as 'all she has time for'. | |
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Starship Troopers: One of the female infantry recruits says that she joined because she wants to have babies, and it's easier to get a license if you're a citizen. | |
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In Hazbin Hotel, Hell itself is suffering from overpopulation. Every year, angels from Heaven called Exorcists invade Hell and go on a massive killing spree destroying the souls of any demon they come across until it's time for them to leave. Wanting to prevent the annual genocide, Charlie devises the Happy Hotel to rehabilitate sinners so they can reach Heaven as a humane alternative. | |
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Utopia Falls: The government decides whether or not people can have children, and they practice eugenics, not allowing people to if their DNA is deemed "unfit". In those cases they're sent to work dangerous jobs such as mining. They justify this on the basis of having limited resources and keeping genetic disease from spreading. | |
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In Supernova, despite the fact that there are multiple colonized planets, on a spaceship each individual has to apply for a license to have children. Their problems start when the guy is given a license but the girl isn't, meaning they can't have a child together. | |
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Mentioned in the opening expository voice-over in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, as well as the Brian Aldiss short story it was based on, "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", as a response to the polar ice-caps melting and flooding the coastlines. | |
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In Scrapped Princess, the entire world is allowed to have only so many human residents; when the population gets too big, the excesses are killed off by the Peacemakers. | |
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Z.P.G.. All parents are forbidden from having children for one generation (30 years). The penalty for violation is death. | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, Earth (Or rather, the United Nations of Sol) seems to have certain population-control measures set up to prevent undesirable genetic characteristics from spreading to future generations. The only such limit that has been mentioned so far is for the overly moronic - basically, stupid people aren't allowed to have children - but one must assume that other characteristics are likewise limited. Since over-population isn't a problem (plenty of planets to colonize, and space-station colonies to boot), such people can still have children, though - by 'ordering' genetically-designed kids at private companies, getting them grown in tanks, and then raising them... apparently, the Nature-Versus-Nurture debate ended with victory for 'Nature' somewhere along the line. | |
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The defining motivation of the Mad Titan Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. His Evil Plan is to enact a 50% reduction in the population on all civilized worlds, across the entire universe, so no one will have to suffer losing their entire world to an Overpopulation Crisis like he did for generations. | |
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Gre7g Luterman's stories in the Hayven Celestia expanded universe flesh out the process further. Every geroo born on a generation ship is issued a "birth token" at birth and when they die their token is given to a couple that desires a child. The titular character of the Kanti Cycle novels was born illegally and has to conceal his existence from the commissioner who is willing to depopulate the ship to prevent overpopulation. | |
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One of Lazarus Long's stories in Time Enough for Love brings up a time that Earth tried declaring everyone over 80 to be legally dead, this being a couple centuries after they invented rejuvenation, one of Lazarus's sons tries emigrating a bunch of those elderly refugees to a new colony world. And one mentioned symptom of Secundus's decay, two thousand years after colonization, is that they've instituted birth quotas. | |
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In the CoDominium universe, Earth is so overcrowded the government is slipping contraceptive drugs into the Proles Citizens' food supplies and releasing infertility viruses into the ghetto/reservation-like Welfare Islands. Only those who move to frontier planets can have larger families. | |
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The population of the Kaka clan in BlazBlue is kept at 100 by the Applied Phlebotinum that created them. A shortage of males keeps the population count from rising quickly, while parthenogenesis ensures that there will always be at least 100 Kaka. | |
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I Will Fear No Evil has population control — each person gets licensed for a set number of children when he/she turns eighteen. Eunice mentions at one point her marriage is considered a "second class contract", since she's licensed for children and her husband is not, implying that if he were, their marriage would be in a different category. | |
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Hive Mind (2016): In the past, those classified as criminal or socially undesirable were barred from having children. This led to a population crash due to weakened disease resistance and assorted useful characteristics being mistakenly marked as negative. The controls were removed in order to reverse these problems, and Lottery was created to help channel personality traits that could be negative if expressed in an antisocial way. Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement mandates that all adult citizens are allowed to have two children if they want, and certain individuals are allowed to have many more 'duty children'. There do not appear to be rules against having more than two children, but below certain levels it is considered socially unacceptable. | |
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Inverted in Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Transformers are born by the planet releasing pulses which settle and create life by coding energy in a spark, which is placed in a body to make a new Transformer. The pulses began to decline (and in other continuities, like Regeneration-1 the race goes extinct) so the then leader, Nova Prime, commissioned life to be drawn from his matrix as he needed to expand the population though his other motive was to make their race great so they could colonize beyond their world. | |
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It also appears in Time for the Stars. Each family can have three children. Extra children are taxed and the family doesn't receive government financial help for them. Families can trade for each other's unused child slots or apply for reclassification for more children. | |
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This is the true purpose of the numbers in Plunderer. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade: The camarilla is usually very strict with the population of vampires, so a Vampire must always ask permission from a prince if he wants to transform someone. The punishment for transforming someone without permission is death for both. | |
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Stargate SG-1: There's an episode where SG-1 visits a planet where the whole population has been herded into a Domed City with the rest of the world outside being a Death World similar to Venus. The entire population is also linked to a central computer through neural implants so they can instantly receive new information. When people start disappearing one by one and instantly fade from the collective memory of every other citizen (including the wife of a happily married scientist who chillingly doesn't even know who SG-1 are talking about), it turns out that the computer has been selecting people to sacrifice themselves by leaving the dome because the energy supply of the dome has been decreasing for a while, causing the dome to shrink. At the end SG-1 figures out that the city used to support a population of 100,000; when they first arrive on the planet there are only 1,000 people left. | |
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A variation in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, when the number of Souls of the Fae is physically limited. When one of them becomes "available", it can be given or auctioned, allowing one to produce offspring. They also sometimes let their soul randomly regenerate, causing, on one occasion, Mab's tea to turn into a baby. | |
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What Happened to Monday: The future EU strictly enforces a strict one-child policy, with second siblings forbidden and any found placed in cryo-sleep to be woken when the population decreases. At least officially. In reality, they're killed. | |
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In KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World, an apocalyptic incident reduces mankind to a single empire secretly ruled by machines. In this empire, people are born artificially, know nothing of sex and are set to be executed upon becoming "useless" to society. All of them are conditioned to accept this as normal, and the few who protest are banished to towns surrounding the empire where they might live to an old age but must not conceive children. | |
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Forgotten Realms: The Drow families are only allowed two sons at any one time, though they can have as many daughters as they like. They sacrifice the third to Lolth. Unless one of them conveniently dies beforehand. Drizzt Do'Urden was the third child of his family, but one of his brothers was assassinated shortly after his birth, so they didn't have to sacrifice him. This tradition exists because Lolth herself demands it. She has...issues...with men, to put it lightly. Inverted in another dark elf example, from the old Role Aids third-party D&D supplement line: In Elves, dark elf society is virtually lawless, except that it's prohibited to kill a female dark elf before she's produced at least two offspring. Backstabbing and feuding would probably wipe out their population if not for this rule. |
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Mass Effect: The quarian Migrant Fleet has to keep tight control of its population due to the limited resources. Tali mentions that they're currently running a one child policy, but also that the limit changes depending on the population and available resources and that there have even been some periods when the population dropped far enough that positive population control was used. Additionally, the turians and salarians forced this upon the Krogan via the Genophage. The salarians themselves engage in a form of this by allowing only ten percent of their eggs to be fertilized. Unfertilized eggs hatch into males while fertilized eggs hatch into females. Females lay eggs at regular intervals, so allowing them to be more than ten percent of the population would lead to a nasty Overpopulation Crisis, as the salarians learned the hard way before they achieved spaceflight. |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: In order to control the colony's population, having a child requires permission from the Council, and there haven't been any babies born since the Stratospheric landed on Vertumna, with the last one born shortly before the ship passed through the wormhole. If Tammy is saved, she eventually gets pregnant at 19 and gives birth to Echinacea, the first child born on Vertumna. | |
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Inverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED where the Coordinators' society—whose population was steadily reducing—in the space colonies actually mandated Arranged Marriage in the hopes of increasing birth rates. It didn't work. | |
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The Lottery has the government forced to do this, in response to a mysterious interruption to the reproductive ability of the human species. The disease, if it is that, is also putting a control by stopping the population from growing any further. | |
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The giant eagles from Tales of the Magic Land have a law that their tribe must have only a hundred birds, due to limited food resources. Since they often live up to two hundred, any new baby receives a lot of attention. The one bird that appears in the story attempted a coup after the tribe's chief attempted to put himself on top of the queue. | |
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In In Time, society has been rendered ageless, but to counteract the inevitable population explosion, every living person has a clock which holds their exact amount of time left to live. People can earn more time through various means, but once they hit zero they die instantly. The system is skewed to place the burden on the poorest part of the population. | |
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The Neanderthal Parallax: The Neanderthals only have children once ever 10 years. This is accomplished by women and men living separately and only meeting on a cycle that ensures they're only fertile one visit every 10 years. The population control also allows them to concentrate their resources on particular age groups at regular, predictable intervals. | |
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Silo: Living in a giant underground silo means that romantic relationships have to be sanctioned. Sex for procreation is heavily regulated, and everyone has mandatory birth control. The first scene of the Beckers' married life is them delighted that they have been approved to try for a baby. They have one year afterwards to get pregnant, and because the oppressive Judicial department didn't want them having children, secretly arranged for Allison's birth control implant to not even be removed. | |
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In the Known Space series by Larry Niven on Earth the number of children you can have is based on several factors: you can be assigned children based on a fixed metric, buy licenses for extra children, or even win them in a lottery (this last is the result of alien influence by a species that's attempting to breed psychic luck powers into humanity). At one point there are even legalized gladiatorial death duels for birthrights, winner take all. The ARM police go on "mother hunts" for those who illegally went over their reproductive limits, and very rare individuals are awarded an unlimited breeding license— their genes are declared to be so useful that humanity needs them more than it needs the room and resources freed up by not having them. Notably Carlos Wu's genius and fitness gives him an unlimited birthright, while Beowulf Shaeffer's albinoism revoked his birthrights. So Carlos fathered Beowulf's son Louis Wu. However, by Ringworld only the lottery remains due to corruption in the boards, so all of Louis's children are Lucky. Presumably they'd also run out of health-impairing genetic traits to select against by that point. Also humanity's colony worlds lack population control of any kind. Eventually Beowulf found a planet that was close enough to Earth that it wouldn't set off his wife's phobia of non-Earth environments and they had more children there. |
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In The Andalite Chronicles, it is mentioned that the Andalites used to have population control laws, but that they were repealed because of the war. | |
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BattleTech: The Clans practiced this in the Clan Homeworlds. The Homeworlds actually had plenty of untapped resources that could have allowed for plenty of population growth but because there wasn't an immediate military benefit from doing so (and if one did another Clan could potentially swoop in and take it) so they instead imposed limits on civilian populations, going so far as ordering forced sterilizations in some circumstances. Due to the much greater abundance of resources in the Inner Sphere, the invader Clans have since ceased to do so. | |
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In "Time Lag", Vaynamo has stablized its population, voluntarily. This incites anger in the conquerors — Chertkoi is heavily overpopulated. Bors tells Elva that they can't hoard its resources; Elva retorts they should take the consequences of having bred like maggots. | |
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Rick Griffin's Ten Thousand Miles Up takes place on board a Generation Ship that has maintained a constant population of 10,000 for four hundred years with contraceptive implants and a waiting list to reproduce. Captain Atari and his wife Jakari took themselves off the list, giving up their chance to have kids until they steal a planet and a Terraformer and decide to stop enforcing the list. Gre7g Luterman's stories in the Hayven Celestia expanded universe flesh out the process further. Every geroo born on a generation ship is issued a "birth token" at birth and when they die their token is given to a couple that desires a child. The titular character of the Kanti Cycle novels was born illegally and has to conceal his existence from the commissioner who is willing to depopulate the ship to prevent overpopulation. |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", the Oracle chooses everyone's mate for them, to insure their social harmony, except the High Priestess. She is the only one allowed to choose for herself. It presumably also controls how many are born too, preventing any overpopulation in the ship's limited space. It's also mentioned in "The Mark of Gideon", in which a planet's failure to deal with this leads to ridiculously extreme overcrowding (though no problems with health or resources, apparently). The episode first aired in 1969. Kirk advocates birth control for them and offers to provide contraceptive devices (his stance was very controversial at the time, but seems blatantly obvious to most now). |
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On one of the worlds the Sliders visited, the population was kept low by heavy marketing of birth control (billboards advertised "Birth Control Cola"), and by ATMs which dispense free money to anyone willing to enter a lottery in which the winner must commit suicide via poison. "Winners" are treated like royalty until their time comes, and the ones the Sliders met considered it an honor. This was the result of them paying attention to one Reverend Thomas Malthus, who argued that human population growth would always outpace food production. As a result of their ubiquitous reinforcement of birth control, there are only 500 million people in the whole world. One group on this world argues that the Lottery is unnecessary. Instead, they advocate better birth control. |
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In The Giver, every family unit is allowed two children. If a child dies, the parents either can apply or are simply given another baby of the same gender and same name as a replacement. However, they come from Birthmothers, which only have 3 children, then a lifetime of hard labor. Even then, only 50 newbabes are given to parent units in December. | |
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Like the SeaQuest DSV example above, the Marcos reign in the Philippines had death squads target street children, mainly after being released from police detention cells. | |
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In The Last Birdling, Birdlings keep a careful limit on the number of births in their species, and any couples who have a child without permission are quietly executed. This is because adult Birdlings feed on humans and thus need to keep their numbers low to avoid attracting suspicion and/or overhunting their food supply. | |
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A variation of this based on gender is put out in The Dark Elf Trilogy. The main character (who has since become well known) was, incidentally, a third son. | |
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DNA2 has an extreme example, the future has a problem with overpopulance and a strict law was enforced that allows people to only have one child. Men who father more than one child get the death penalty. When they found out that a mega playboy of the name of Junta Momonari had fathered 100 children and had left behind mostly male descendants with the same potent DNA, he had already been dead for quite some time. They decide that instead of altering the DNA of those descendants, it'd be much easier to just go back in time and alter Junta's DNA before he became a playboy and fathers any children. Which starts up the plot. | |
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Ender's Game has a two-child limit enforced by punitive taxation. However, because Earth is governed by a somewhat weak version of The Federation, certain individual jurisdictions, particularly predominantly-Catholic ones, seem to have lax enforcement policies. Ender is a state-sponsored exception as his parents were supposed to breed a fleet-commanding prodigy and his older siblings turned out to be a sociopath and a pacifist. He still took a lot of crap in school because of his Third status. It is hinted in the Ender's Shadow spinoff series that the population laws were actually a Zero-Approval Gambit designed to be so unpopular as to hasten the dissolution of The Federation after the war so that humanity would not be controlled by a single monolithic government that could be corrupted. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: For all its dystopianism, this is actually averted by the Imperium of Man, as rampant population increase is the only thing keeping it going, allowing them to win wars by virtue of outnumbering the enemy by several orders of magnitude. It's also how Space Marine Chapters stay at full strength, with the rate of success of recruiting, indoctrinating and surgically modifying humans being so low. The Tau use a form of population control, in that all pairings are determined by examining genetic potential and then getting the parents to mate. The offspring will not be raised by the parents but the caste-wide educational system (though parents often take an interest). Tau society functions on Happiness in Slavery and mass mind control, hence the lack of outrage from the Tau. The Tau Empire's human population is speculated to be regulated by the Tau. However, this is stated mostly by inherently biased and unreliable Imperial narrators. |
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The Bladerunner (no relation) by Alan Nourse had the government require sterilization as the price of medical treatment. A "bladerunner" was someone who smuggled surgical tools for doctors willing to perform unauthorized medicine (doctors weren't permitted to take medical equipment out of the hospitals). | |
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In the Great Ship universe, it is implied that passengers on the Greatship have to pay for additional berths for children. When almost every entity on the ship is some form of life-extended Trans Human, it's a practical (and profitable) method to keep the ship from being overrun by children. That being said, most of the Greatship remains largely empty and only marginally explored, as the ship is larger than Saturn. | |
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Doctor Who: As Worldbuilding in "Frontier in Space", a newsreader announces that the Bureau of Population Control has stated that any family willing to move into the enclosed cities that have just been built in reclaimed Arctic land will be allowed to have two children. While a depiction of an overpopulated or polluted future was almost obligatory in 1970s and '80s Who, clearly Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, as in this episode Earth is the center of a galactic empire with Casual Interstellar Travel, raising the question of why people don't just immigrate to other worlds. | |
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The Shadow Children Sequence by Margaret Haddix is a series about a world where families can only have 2 children (the main character is, of course, a secret third child). Rich people are allowed to cheat, and the Population Police are utterly corrupt. | |
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In another Niven verse, A World Out of Time, the State has become a One World Order where Individuality Is Illegal, and only massive fusion-powered desalinators on every shoreline can provide enough fresh water for the massive population. A few generations back, the State instituted compulsory sterilization for all those with harmful genes, both for eugenic reasons, to save money on heath care, and to slow the rapid population growth. No wonder they're so desperate to Terraform. | |
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Inverted on Battlestar Galactica (2003), in which the possibility that couples' reproduction might have to be made mandatory in order to sustain a decimated human species was broached soon after the destruction of the Colonies. | |
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In the Uglies series, parents are prohibited, and also incapable because of the whole pretty-mind-thing, of having more than one child every ten years. This keeps the pretty parents able to focus on one child, and keeps sibling bonds from forming. It's surprisingly effective. | |
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In David Brin's Uplift universe, all reproduction has to be carefully screened, both as population control and as a prerequisite to joining the Galactic civilization. Probationers are those who fail— they are permanently sterilized to avoid spreading undesirable genes. Client races have a card-system, colors determine how many kids you can have, and a White Card is an unlimited license— your genes are so good, anyone who wants them can have them. | |
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In Stellaris empires can impose population controls on a species, though not on the empire's founding race, which prevents new POPs of that species from growing in the empire. The "Utopia" DLC also adds species-wide neutering, as a form of Purge. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: There's an episode where the team visits a world populated only by teenagers and children because every member of the tribe commits suicide at the age of 25. This is also because of an energy shield problem, one that was installed by the Ancients to protect the planet from the Wraith (the Big Bad of the show who are basically life-sucking space vampires)—only it doesn't cover the whole planet, so the Ancients gave their ancestors instructions on how to manage their population so they wouldn't have to leave the protected area. Atlantis eventually fixes the problem by providing the tribe with a greater power supply. | |
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The Kesh society in Always Coming Home has strong societal taboos against having more than two children. It's not forbidden or illegal, but it is frowned upon, and since contraceptives and abortion are easily accessed most families stick to it. Since leftover pollution has made miscarriages and stillbirths very common, getting two children can be difficult on its own. | |
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Pandora: A remote Human colony has everyone but its elders depart through a portal at age twenty five to somewhere else, which they claim is good, so the population doesn't grow too high. However, they admit to not actually knowing where this leads. Later it's learned they all die by doing so. | |
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Logan's Run: The population in the seemingly utopian future world is maintained by executing everyone who reaches the age of thirty. | |
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Blue Planet: The GEO restricts families on Earth to two children in the aftermath of the Blight, a worldwide famine that killed half the world's population. | |
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In Dr. STONE, Gen explains the concept of Dunbar's number, which states that any person can only maintain relationships with a maximum of around 150 people (which happens to be the size of the Kingdom of Science at that point). If the group gets any larger, it will split. For this reason, Senku didn't start trying to make more revival fluid after the cave was destroyed but before they found platinum, which allowed him to make an infinite revival fluid generator. He doesn't restrict people from increasing the population the old-fashioned way, though. | |
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In the 22nd century of Terra Nova the protagonist was sentenced to six years in prison for having a third child. Fortunately they don't care about population laws in the virgin frontier of 85 million BC. | |
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In Mindjammer the Core Worlds require a license to reproduce, and before the discovery of Planar Drive Old Earth had mandatory euthanasia at the age of 500. | |
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In The Caves of Steel, Earth licenses couples to have a number of children based on the parents' genes and social contributions. This is presented quite neutrally (Asimov considered overpopulation to be a major threat). Spacer societies are considered less moral, since they combine population control with eugenic breeding programs and mandated late term abortion (late term as in "all the way up to adulthood"). | |
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Present on Mars in Babylon 5, and for good reasons: while Mars is being terraformed it's still impossible to survive outside the pressurized domes, so resources to grow food are limited and the original colonists set up strict birth and immigration controls to synchronize the population expansion with that of the ability to grow food. This is also one of the reasons Martians don't like Earth Alliance, as in a moment of utter stupidity the Senate allowed its member nations to deport undesiderables to Mars, and by the time the Senate realized they had messed up and revoked the permissions Mars was already overpopulated and dependant on Earth for food. | |
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Quintaglio Ascension: The Quintaglious have Bloodpriests who ritually kill seven out of eight hatchlings to cull the race and insure their territorial instincts don't overwhelm them with too many people around. Later they are violently purged for it. | |
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The movie Fortress (1992) has the protagonist and his pregnant wife try to leave a dystopian US after it implements a one-child policy to fight increasing population growth. In fact, their first baby was stillborn, though the government apparently doesn't make an exception- one shot is all you get. For this "crime" their sent to a huge underground prison. | |
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In Hc Svnt Dracones Corptowns can easily afford to provide free food and housing for their citizens that can't afford it, but, to limit any strain on the corporate welfare system citizens' income are evaluated every year and if they fall below a certain bracket they are surgically sterilized. Though it can easily be reversed with their medical technology. It's also not explicitly stated but implied that abortions may be performed as well, as MarsCo can save the genome of a specific fetus that a parent wants but can't afford at the time to clone later. | |
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On the other hand, rejected outright in Starship Troopers. The Terran Federation believes that if humanity were to instate birth control and stop expanding they'd be wiped out by another, more aggressive species. | |
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Notably averted in Soylent Green. That lack of any sort of population control at all is exactly the reason why it's such a Crapsack World to begin with. | |
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