They treated them like animals. That was the idea. After a buzzword-stuffed proposal to the Commissioner, the call went out and thousands prostrated themselves for the chance to be humiliated. Eight were unlucky.
The ‘set’ was a guinea pig hutch, sized to accommodate its human inhabitants. There was a series of plastic tunnels, large enough to walk through, a communal water-bowl, and a trough filled with a tasteless nutrient-rich mix, the only food the inhabitants were served. They slept curled up in straw and newspaper.
Every few days, the hatch to the outside world was be opened, and masked men in black would enter and take the inhabitants forcibly to a small cage, while the straw and newspapers were removed, and fresh bedding supplied. Then they were taken back to the hutch and locked in.
They were clothed in cotton smocks; each inhabitant was given one smock at the star of the ‘experiment’, and wore this throughout the four month period.
The inhabitants were injected with a sterilizing agent in order to encourage the participants to, in the words of the sub-commissioner, ‘rut like rabbits’. They were also given names chosen by the public; any inhabitant who addressed another by their ‘outside’ name would be punished.
'Guinea Pigs.'
It was touted as the greatest social experiment since the Holocaust.
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