The World of Lollipop-People

The World of Lollipop-People 

Illustrated by: Susan Azari

The story takes place in the far future. After the 5th World War, a peace treaty is signed which would not allow human-beings to harm and kill one another. Humans are divided in to two groups or types: Type A and Type Y (or as the Type As call them, the Lollipop-People). The Lollipop-People are slow-minded, they are short and fat. All they do is eat, drink, sleep and watch a game called “Tik Taak”. They live in big cities that are divided to different districts based on different characteristics (color, shape, etc.) of their favorite “Tik Taak” team. Group As are people who look like us. They are the minority, living in small colonies called countries. They are trained to spend all their lives working and preparing the necessities for themselves and the lollipop-People. Of course Robots play a great role at helping them with all their tasks.

Volume I: The Ambassador of the Lollipop-People Town 

The three teenage characters of the story, Tara, Rama and Pasha, who are born with Type A, are at a critical stage in their lives. They have to choose the country in which they will spend the rest of their lives studying and working. Tara, the narrator of the story, is unhappy with her choice. In an impulsive decision, the three best friends decide to run away to a nearby Lollipop-People town to live their lives as they wish, without the never-ending responsibilities and hard work related to Type A countries. This is where their adventure begins. The journey doesn’t go as they planned with Tara’s foot injury and the unexpected encounter with the 999 Watch Robot. But they finally get there with the help of a mysterious man named Tuma. They make friends with a Lollipop couple named Pany and Muny and watch a “Tik Taak” game. At the same time, they find themselves in a lot of dangerous situations and see many shocking things like the Lollipop-People prison. At the end, the three teenage characters are saved from the Lollipop-People prison and taken to a Type A quarantine where they are questioned and have to redeem their follies. At last they are sent to become ambassadors of the Lollipop-People towns, with the task of helping the Lollipop-People and the young Type As who like themselves might fleet to the towns.

Volume II: The Lollipop-People Mother 

The story of Tara, Rama, and pasha continues in the next volume as they begin their studies as ambassadors of Lollipop-People towns. They are sent amongst their colleagues and their tutor Mifa to a Lollipop-People town to start their first project. Their project is about Lollipop-People children. They experience many touching feelings as they visit the Lollipop-People Kindergartens, the babies and mothers. Rama, the narrator of this volume is unsatisfied with their findings. She has so many questions that she would want to find answers for. Rama requests another visit to complete their project. She asks to go and see the “Birthing Country” where Lollipop-People children are born there. The request is accepted and Tara, Rama, Pasha and their colleague Ania are sent with Pany and Muny to the Birthing Country where Muny is going to give birth. Muny’s child is born and taken away as she is born with Type A! The baby is taken from Muny and has to be raised by the cold feeling robots of the Birthing Country. Rama is angry and with the help of Tara and Pasha plans an escape with the baby. Meanwhile Pasha finds a database of mothers and children. The database contains the name of all mothers, their address and their children’s names and types. Rama’s escape plan goes well at start as the three young characters, Pany, Muny and the new born escape to a different Lollipop-People town. But the baby gets sick and the Police and Doctor Robots catch them all. The baby is taken back to the Birthing Country, Pany and Muny are sent back to their town and the three young adventurers are taken to quarantine again. Before they’re caught, Rama manages to meet with her Lollipop-People mother using the database Pasha had found. She finds her mother but the visit doesn’t go well. The quarantine is longer this time. At the end, Rama is sent to work in a Birthing Country, Pasha is sent to work as a security system developer in the Management Country and Tara is sent back to be an ambassador for Lollipop-People towns. They are all to use their experience and learning and their new ideas for the improvement of theirs countries.

Volume III: The Type A Lollipop Man

A year has passed since the last adventure of the main characters Rama, Tara and Pasha. Pasha, the narrator of the third volume talks about their new lives in their new countries. The three old friends are separated and each live and work in their assigned countries. But they meet up frequently in the Entertainment Country. At one of these meet ups, Rama talks about a baby who was born with neither Type A or Type Y. the baby was mysteriously taken away from the Birthing Country and vanished from all charts. Pasha promises to look in to it. But he gets engaged with rewriting the security codes of the Book Museum, which was hacked by a man named Lama. Pasha finds out that Lama is held in a permanent quarantine but each year, right before the holidays, mysteriously hacks the security systems of some places like the Book Museum and the Medicine Country. Pasha plans a dangerous mission to go and talk to Lama in quarantine. Lama tells him what to look for and gives him some clues. The clues lead our three youngsters to a new adventure. Following the leads, Pasha, Rama and Tara find their way to a village that is off all charts: The Y.A.5 where a whole different types of people live in, the type YA. That’s where they meet the great leader of the world, a person who is not of any special types. They find out the truth about the way the world works. The truth is bitter. People are all born the same. The leaders (the YA people) decide whether the new born should be raised as type A (9 percent of the population), type Y(90 percent) or type YA(1 percent). Those raised as type Y are given special medicine that makes them subnormal, fat and kills them at the age of 40 without being able to do anything significant in their lives. The type A are given medicine that makes them unable to have children but keeps them healthy and energetic to work, while type YA are living without medicine and ruling the world. The use of medicines and the division of people in to three types are against the peace treaty. Pasha and his friend escape the YA village and take the matter to court. There are ups and downs, quarantines and many documents to be proven. They finally win the case and are able to change the world, making it an equal place for everyone to live in.