The Sci-Fi Slaves: Humans again. This may become a theme.
The Situation: I'm still not exactly sure how it happened, but at some point robots gained sentience and managed to take just about every human on Earth, strap them into energy-sucking pods and use them for battery power. This, of course, poses a lot of questions - I know you can get electricity from a potato, but from a person? To keep us ignorant, the machines created a vast virtual reality simulation known as the Matrix, so the vast majority of the population has no idea they're enslaved.
How Bad Do They Have It? Not so bad. In fact, you could say that life in the Matrix is exactly as bad as life in the world we live in today. Maybe slightly better, as we've never seen Glenn Beck in the Matrix.
