Bit of sci-fi World building.

[NuclearFairy]

The setting would be sci-fi, set in an at population capacity place.

Basically everyone makes a mandatory sperm or egg donation when they hit their peak physical maturity. Those that want kids go on a waiting list. How many kids they've raised/are raising would put them on different priority lists. Those that want to be a surrogate but don't want to raise kids go onto a different availability list.

Defective cells are eliminated at collection. When someone dies their sample is then matched up with the most compatible match available.

If someone were to die before they leave a donation behind them their parents will be matched up once again to produce a full blooded sibling. A sample will only be discarded when all children produced by the sample have given their own donation, and the sample must've been used at least once.

I don't know what sort of story could be built around this, I just thought it was a bit of an interesting idea and maybe someone could run with it.

 

[AlinaX]

You might enjoy my Sex Booth series for a rather bland utopian vision.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It sounds very emotionless. The trick here would be putting emotion into it.
Maybe a couple in love continue to produce defective embryos. Something as simple as a genetic disposition to heart disease. So the controlling regime suggests sterilization of the male (as its his chromosomes at fault) and she take a new lover or lovers. She's getting into her late thirties and the biological clock is ticking.

What will the couple do? You could make it a standard cuckold story or perhaps an adventure where they go to great lengths to cleanse his DNA of the genetic anomaly. Using a machine created by a near-mad scientist, they try to fix the issue. The sperm is extracted from the man (very fleshlight-ish) and the sample is placed into a machine which correct the issue, and then the machine implants his cleansed sperm (very phallically) inside the woman.

What could go wrong, right?

 

[StillStunned]

It's the kind of worldbuilding that should probably not make it onto the page. Sorry, but unless it's a significant part of the plot, it would be very difficult to make it interesting for the reader.

(I say this having ploughed through several of Robert A. Heinlein's more uninteresting sociological explorations masquerading as sci-fi adventure novels.)

 

[NuclearFairy]

It's the kind of worldbuilding that should probably not make it onto the page. Sorry, but unless it's a significant part of the plot, it would be very difficult to make it interesting for the reader.

(I say this having ploughed through several of Robert A. Heinlein's more uninteresting sociological explorations masquerading as sci-fi adventure novels.)

Most of my world building doesn't make it onto the page.

Sometimes it leads to me forgetting what my readers know and so leads to my SO asking confused questions. XD

 

[StillStunned]

I did that in "The Rivals". I edited out a line in Chapter 3 that meant the climax in Chapter 5 felt like a deus ex machina.

 

[NuclearFairy]

It can be tricky sometimes, knowing what to put in the story and what to leave behind the scenes.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It can be tricky sometimes, knowing what to put in the story and what to leave behind the scenes.

Very true. You weave just enough into the story to set the scene, but not enough to bog down the story.

 

[LupusDei]

Okay, so it's a space station. Huge, tens of millions of souls, AI-s not counted. The population is fixed at replacement, or that's what everyone's being told, but the section 5 of the outer quarters haven't ever been repaired after the meteor storm twenty years ago. Dad is an immigrant, an engineer of rare specialty, mom is local, and basically housewife doing a keep busy make work work at half occupation. Daughter is still in education but is receiving perks above her status from the System for unexplainable reasons... actually being groomed by a Powerful Evil Man, but yet to comprehend the implications.

 

[Carnevil9]

......I don't know what sort of story could be built around this, I just thought it was a bit of an interesting idea and maybe someone could run with it.

Stories like this generally focus on some young rebel who sees the flaws in the system that nobody else sees. And then goes about fighting it. (Logan's Run, Harrison Bergeron, etc.)

 

[Britva415]

Basically everyone makes a mandatory sperm or egg donation when they hit their peak physical maturity.

Why?

When someone dies their sample is then matched up with the most compatible match available.

Why?

If someone were to die before they leave a donation behind them their parents will be matched up once again to produce a full blooded sibling. A sample will only be discarded when all children produced by the sample have given their own donation, and the sample must've been used at least once.

Why?

There seem to be a lot of unstated assumptions here, which aren’t coming across. Does this society somehow promise or expect or value that each living person should contribute to the future’s genetic diversity? Is this “parenthood-for-everyone” concept supposed to prevent people from jumping the line and conceiving illicitly by ensuring that their gametes are guaranteed to yield spawn at some point?

What is the storytelling potential here which is absent from a story with a less complicated scheme to limit the reproduction rate? (I assume that that is what the goal is, since the population is at capacity, but it’s not even really clear to me that that is what the scheme you describe would achieve.)

What would the conflict be, in a story in this setting?

I don’t know if you already have that part figured out or not. But it would come before world-building.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Why?

To get the fittest donations.

Why?
Why?

Replacement.

There seem to be a lot of unstated assumptions here, which aren’t coming across. Does this society somehow promise or expect or value that each living person should contribute to the future’s genetic diversity? Is this “parenthood-for-everyone” concept supposed to prevent people from jumping the line and conceiving illicitly by ensuring that their gametes are guaranteed to yield spawn at some point?

Pretty much to keep genetic diversity going without having to worry about whole sections of the population simply not wanting to reproduce.

What is the storytelling potential here which is absent from a story with a less complicated scheme to limit the reproduction rate? (I assume that that is what the goal is, since the population is at capacity, but it’s not even really clear to me that that is what the scheme you describe would achieve.)

What would the conflict be, in a story in this setting?

I don’t know if you already have that part figured out or not. But it would come before world-building.

That is the question. Sometimes I get little bits of ideas for a world that doesn't fit into any of the stories currently floating around in my head, and I can't see how to spring a story off of it.

With this one I decided to drop it into this forum and see if it sparked an idea for someone.

 

[Britva415]

To get the fittest donations.

Replacement.

Pretty much to keep genetic diversity going without having to worry about whole sections of the population simply not wanting to reproduce.

That is the question. Sometimes I get little bits of ideas for a world that doesn't fit into any of the stories currently floating around in my head, and I can't see how to spring a story off of it.

With this one I decided to drop it into this forum and see if it sparked an idea for someone.

Ah, I see - so everyone doesn’t get to reproduce. Or even fuck, from the sound of it - all conception is happening in a government lab and being implanted in surrogates?

Well there you have it - the conflict is between the authorities and people who just want to play - or conceive on their own.

I imagine there would be a pretty vigorous Resistance Movement in such a world. Maybe they ritualize sex or operate clandestine love spas or something

 

[NuclearFairy]

Ah, I see - so everyone doesn’t get to reproduce. Or even fuck, from the sound of it - all conception is happening in a government lab and being implanted in surrogates?

Supposedly everyone gets to reproduce. Raising kids on the other hand...

As for the fucking, well if there's some super sci-fi birth-control with 100% effectiveness then fucking might still happen.

Well there you have it - the conflict is between the authorities and people who just want to play - or conceive on their own.

I imagine there would be a pretty vigorous Resistance Movement in such a world. Maybe they ritualize sex or operate clandestine love spas or something

That's more than possible.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Perhaps a non-erotic tale is a woman or a family learning that the birth control isn’t 100% effective, ‘merely’ 99.993% (or some other such number, scaled to population), and their trials and tribulations dealing with their experience upsetting the societal-expectation apple cart.

A nasty, evil variant would follow the same tale, but include the rebels trying to break the current system by mucking up the birth control. Sociopathy at a minimum.

On a different note, the potential of 100% (real or advertised) birth control might make this place a hedonistic vacation destination - ‘the Land of Infinite Fucks’, or free-use, C/NC, or taboo of whichever flavor tickles your gherkin. (Jerking your pickle? Whichever.)

If cloning, biological replicants, or similar tech is also available, the conflict to fill life support capacity with desired replicas vs worker bees vs tourists could get ‘interesting’