The Zombie Chronicles

Zombie Nation

Note to readers: This novel is a test, something I have been kicking around in my head to determine if I should write it or not. Right now it is just an outline that I might be inclined to write when I have time. This branch of the website is subject to disappearing without notice. 2 APR 2009

Set four years after Z-day, in the great nation of California. Things have changed here, the state is now run by zombies, who have a strict hierarchical order that determines who has power, not who is in a position of power. San Fransisco and San Diego were devastated by nuclear strikes from the old United States and are now contaminated lands being cleaned up slowly by the zombies who rule the land. But why would they go to the trouble? After all zombies are not affected by the radiation...only the living are.

The living human population of California is estimated to be over five million souls, the dead number closer to twenty million. The living are well cared for and are free to live their lives as long as they follow certain rules, like never using birth control, never killing anyone (living or dead) and giving their pint of blood every two weeks at the local blood bank once they hit age sixteen. There is only one penalty for any crimes in the newest incarnation of California; for the living its a trip to a blood farm, where humans are pumped full of fluid intravenously and their blood harvested far more frequently than every two weeks and for the dead it is true death...unless there are mitigating conditions.

Sherman Chu is the only founder sent to California on Z-day to start the plague who survives. The sole founder of the original four sent, he can control every single zombie that he ever created and all of those that they created and so on down the line. The other three founders were caught up and slain in the violence of Z-day, which makes Sherman...just...about...a...god. Sherman discovered something about being the unconditional dictator to millions; he didn't have a taste for it. With his own creator dead Sherman had free reign to make the state anything he wanted so he set up a sustainable system where everyone could be equally unhappy together. Without the living the dead would suffer and possibly die, without the dead (and their order) the living would be consumed. Many of the dead find themselves at odds with the Chu faction, many wish the Chus didn't have an elder who could wield them like a well oiled machine to respond to any threat. This is the story of what happened when those factions tried to change the balance of power.



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