[ WP ] Every single day the world votes to kill off one person . Whoever receives the most votes that day is killed .

It was the last invention of mankind. Societal collapse began after a week. The hopes, the dreams, the wishes - whatever had accompanied the creation - shattered after it was leaked onto the internet. Suddenly it was n't a select group of people choosing the deaths, a jury of executioners, it was the entire world. At 12:00pm EST, a single person in the world would drop dead from no discernible cause. 
 The technology behind it was complex, a new order of probability theory made reality. 
 
 Tyrants and terrorists were the first to go. The hope remained even among the growing horror that maybe, just maybe, the world would show its good side. Its collective benevolence. But on the fourth day, the same day god created the evening and the morning, on the fourth day an outspoken celebrity, famous for her acting and pouting, was killed. 
 
 And so the floodgates were opened. On the fifth day, the president of the united states of america fell to the machine. The sixth? An Indian left wing political blogger. Weeks passed and social media was abandoned as popularity suddenly became deadly. Actors and diplomats alike fell to the vote, instagram stars and royalty. Simply having a name could be fatal if anybody else knew it. 
 
 They tried to shut it off, but it had spread too far and too fast, and as governments fell one by one, the dystopian future that so many books and films promised became a reality. 
 
 After two years and nearly 700 deaths, America had fallen. India had fallen. France, England, China. The great nations of the world all fell. 
 Eventually the world ran out of famous people. A cynical commenter might have quipped about it being worth it thanks to the loss of the Kardashians, but the reality was bleak and grim. 
 
 Eventually, ten votes was enough to get a person killed, as everyone was left to vote for people they knew, people who had irritated them. Even picking a name at random ran with the risk that Joe Smith had annoyed his three neighbours that day, and your random vote tipped the scale. 
 
 People lost their names. It did n't work with nicknames or pseudonyms, so it was n't uncommon for the girl you met while trying to catch a rabbit to avoid starvation to introduce herself as Rabbit. 
 
 It added an oddly bright side to a ruined world.
