D-503 has been conditioned to value the collective over the individual, and treats the deaths of people or the execution of subversives like the repair or replacement of broken parts. D-503 takes great pleasure in the structure, lack of freedom, and unity that life in the One State offers. He finds the lack of privacy and freedom to be exhilarating, which he equates to the realization of an age-old dream. At the beginning of the novel, D-503 is perfectly content with his life in the One State. The story of We follows D-503, an engineer who is leading the construction of a spacecraft known as the Integral. When you read the description of the city’s two million inhabitants going through their daily routines in sync, this name seems very appropriate–it becomes clear that they are truly nothing more than numbers in a machine. These citizens, who are known as ‘Numbers’, perform all of their daily activities according to a strict schedule, and every inhabitant performs them in unison. The only privacy that they have occurs on “sexual days”, where anyone has the right to choose a partner of their liking. It is covered entirely in glass, and as a result, the citizens have zero privacy. The dystopian society of We is an isolated city known as the “United State”, or the “One State” in some translations.
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