One: The Royal Family and religious figures.When the caste system was implemented, families had to change their last names to names that were appropriate with their given castes. However, it’s later made clear that it was a way for Gregory to reward his friends by placing them high in the caste an his enemies at the bottom. Outwards, the caste system was made to reward those who donated the government. It’s most likely based on the caste system developed in India. Prior to becoming King, Gregory had already drafted his idea of a caste system. Her marriage made her a princess, thus giving Gregory the right to call himself king. Therefore, he forced his only daughter, Katherine, to marry Emil de Monpezat, a much older man and the Prince of Swendway. He was considered president, but he wanted to become king like many of the other countries in Europe. It’s unspecified how, but Gregory managed to do this and use Russia and China’s war with each other to retake the United States’ power for their own country.īecause the name “United States of America” had such a bad reputation, Americans agreed to change their country’s name to Illéa, after Gregory. Gregory Illéa, a wealthy figure in the United States’ politics and military, had ambitions to usurp their current president and be the next ruler. Later on, Russia attempted to expand its territory in both directions and failed when it went to war with China. The United States lost its allies, while their European allies sought alliances with each other by reviving the practice of intermarrying royal households. For years, China (and later on “New Asia”) pulled the strings in all of the United States’ legislation. The Chinese army invaded and won, creating the American State of China.
In the book’s past, the Third World War began because the United States was so bankrupt that it could not afford to pay China back the money that they owed. During the Selected (the term given to the women chosen to compete for the prince’s hand)’s history class, they recall the history of how Illéa came to be. Geographically, the novels take place in the United States, but it’s since been changed and is now called the country of Illéa.
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Be warned that this article will contain spoilers, so read at your own risk! History of Illéaīefore I explain the series of the books, I think it’s best to explain the history of the universe the Selection takes place in.
As of writing, there are five main novels ( The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir, and The Crown) and five novellas ( The Prince, The Guard, The Queen, The Favorite, and Happily Ever After) in The Selection series.
Here’s a run-down of the entire Selection series. But in The Selection series, that marriage proposal comes from the future king of the country, so you can imagine how big of a deal that is in the books.īut to generalize this as The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor would be doing the book a huge disservice. The grand prize isn’t money, but a marriage proposal. If you look at the series’ review on Goodreads, you get the idea that’s basically The Bachelor (or The Bachelorette, for its later spin-off) but set in a dystopian future.įor those who aren’t into reality TV, The Bachelor is a show where a group of women compete to win the affection of one man. One of those dystopian-type young adult novels, The Selection Series, takes that dystopian trope but then does something unique with it. And then The Hunger Games paved the way for dystopian futures. Twilight started teen romance novels featuring a mortal girl choosing between two supernatural love interests. When the Harry Potter books came out, fantasy universes hiding in plain sight became a trope. As someone who has once worked part-time in a bookstore (no, I’m not Joe Goldberg from YOU), I can say that it’s easy to see a trend forming based on books that are a hit.
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