[ WP ] Every person in the world undergoes a `` goodness '' test . It 's designed to give a score from 1 to 200 , where 1 is pure evil , and 200 is an angel in human body . Then the world is divided into 200 zones , where people can live among their own kind .

ZONE 198 
 
 `` Congratulations, you scored 198! Now just step through this door.'' 
 
 Those were the words spoken by the last human voice I ever heard, except my own. 
 
 I did not know what to expect when I stepped through the door, but I know it was n't this. 
 
 There was no one here. Not a single person. Just me. 
 
 Were all the other zones like this? Was everyone in their own version of the world? What happened to me? 
 
 
 TESTING CENTER 
 
 `` Well, another batch done. Just 2.1 billion to go.'' 
 
 `` Still just the one above 150, huh?'' 
 
 `` Yep, zones 151 to 197 still empty.'' 
 
 `` And 199 and 200.'' 
 
 `` I wonder how that girl in 198 is doing. She's been alone for years now.'' 
 
 When the project to score everyone's `` goodness'' was first proposed, it seemed like such a good idea, but as it turns out, most people ended up in the same 40 zones or so, right around 100. This is because most people were neither saints nor devils. They were just regular people, sometimes doing good, sometimes being selfish. Some people placed closer to 150 here and there, but for the first couple billion of people processed, there was no one even close to 200. 
 
 Then she showed up, and scored 198. 
 
 We did n't know such a creature could even exist. All previous data suggested it was n't possible. But here she was. 
 
 So she went into Zone 198, as the world had voted to do. We knew there was almost no chance that we'd ever put anyone else in her zone, that we had condemned her to a life of solitary confinement. There was not much we could do, the law was the law, you could n't CHOOSE which zone you went to, that would defeat the purpose of the entire exercise. 
 
 But as processed the batches of people, seeing them join the millions in the 90s, 100s and 110s, we could n't help but wonder how she was doing in there. 
 
 It did n't seem right. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

