In a seemingly utopian society, people live under strict rules that eliminate pain, conflict, and deep emotions. Everything is controlled and people lack the ability to choose things for themselves, from family units, career assignments, even what food they eat. To assure that pain and conflict don't recur, memories of the past are erased from public knowledge.

One individual is chosen to receive and safeguard these memories, uncovering hidden truths about the world. That person has the ability to release the memories of the past, however this utopia would cease to exist if they did, and with it, pain, conflict, and free choice would return.

Retributive justice is a theory of punishment where offenders are punished in proportion to their wrongdoing, emphasizing moral accountability and just deserts rather than rehabilitation.

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, citizens of the "world state" are given abundant consumerist materials and access to hedonistic physical pleasures by their government. In exchange, the government heavily micromanages every aspect of their lives.

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president since 2019, is known for his tough stance on crime, reducing gang violence through mass arrests and emergency powers, resulting in El Salvador going from the highest to lowest murder rate in the entire Western hemisphere during his presidency. While he is massively popular with El Salvadorians and most of Latin America according to legitimate and verifiable surveys, the international perception of him outside the region is poor, viewing him as a highly authoritarian and potentially dangerous president due to his extreme tough-on-crime views and hostility towards critical media.