Population has always been a problem, so to keep the population down the government has placed into an affect trials and games to keep the population down and to weed out those who are too slow or not have the intelligence to work with other people. The trials and games start at the age of sixteen to first find your soulmate, once you have your soulmate you will be going through seven games. You and your soulmate must both pass both games to move onto the next game. If either one fails the game then the one that failed is killed for population control as the other is given a chance with someone else the next year.