Matriarctica: the City-233 experiment.

Matriarctica is a Dystopian Totalitarian Matriarchy that has taken over the Western part of the world as a whole. Matriarctica has only one party in the government known as "Paragon". Paragon's views used to be more on killing all men until they realized the gravity if they killed all men; Paragon now let men do jobs that they could do better than women. Women are above men in this society as men can't get jobs for the government or any positions of power. Nothing much is known about the past since Paragon has burned all historical records. The year is 2885.

Resistance in City 233 has risen after the rebellion exposed the corruption in Paragon. But Paragon chose this as an opportunity to start a deadly experiment by destroying, blocking, and fortify any exit. If any person tries to go to the exits of the city, they'll get shot regardless of gender and class. Paragon started to infect two men and two females with the TORO-33 Virus. This caused a societal collapse in City 233. Both surviving uninfected men and women hesitantly teamed up to fight the infected.

TORO-33 is spread through the blood and saliva, and is highly contagious to the point that just one drop of infected fluid is enough to infect a new host. The Virus is typically transmitted through skin-breaking bites from the Infected, or by infected blood getting into a victim's orifices such as the mouth or eyes (usually by the Infected vomiting blood directly into a victim's face), but it can also spread through saliva exchange.

Once a host is infected, it will take ten to twenty seconds before they succumb to the Infection. It appears that the amount of time it takes for TORO-33 to take over a host specifically depends on the amount of Rage that the host was exposed to. If two mouthfuls of infected fluid are vomited directly into a host's face, they will become infected almost instantly, but if one drop of infected fluid gets into their system through their eyes (which are a more direct connection to the brain), then it will take approximately fifteen - thirty seconds before the Virus begins to visibly affect them. An infected host may experience painful spasms and uncontrollable twitches and convulsions as TORO-33 takes over their system, and they will begin to bleed from their eyes and mouth. After a host is infected by TORO-33, they suffer spasms in the extremities, experience excruciating pain described as a "burning" sensation, and the Infection also starts causing capillaries to hemorrhage, making the host frequently vomit blood and bleed from their eyes and nose. The Infected's eyes also turn scarlet red. the Infected's eyes are shown to illuminate when near a light source, similar to animals whose eyes have "tapetum lucidum". This may or may not be a result of a mutation in the virus. After an infected host succumbs to the TORO-33, they will suffer from extreme, uncontrollable anger and aggression, and almost all higher brain functions will disappear. From that point on, the Infected will seek out and viciously attacks any uninfected person above any other goal - even self-preservation - with not even their closest loved ones or former comrades being spared. An infected individual's past personality or relationships are all erased, overpowered by the strength of the TORO-33. Because of the Virus' extreme contagiousness and very short incubation time, just one Infected can trigger the mass infection and decimation of a dense crowd of people within a matter of minutes. TORO-33 gives those infected heightened mobility and endurance, thus enabling them to quickly rampage through miles and miles of territory and invade entire towns before expiring from lack of self-nourishment. The Virus seems to change the behaviour of the Infected over time as well, because recently-infected individuals were generally highly active during the day; but victims of the Infected who had likely been infected for longer were generally more active at night.

Certain individuals, after getting infected, experience substantial muscle growth, allowing them to easily dismember their prey indicating steroid-like characteristics of the virus. Moreover, such infected seem to retain at least some higher brain functions which allows them to plan and coordinate attacks of other infected people. Such process seems to eradicate the will to infect others, favouring plain killing.

TORO-33 is a recombinant strain of Ebola, and while its psychological symptoms are more like those of Rabies, it does retain some of the physiological symptoms of Ebola: red eyes, internal and external hemorrhaging and bleeding.

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