In 2014, the New Founding Fathers of America have established a new totalitarian government and a police state, following economic collapse and rising social unrest. And a year later, the NFFA devises a plan to help stabilize American society. After being approached by the late psychologist and behavioral science expert
Dr. May Updale with the idea for a social experiment, they agree that for one night on Staten Island located in New York to legalize all crime. In 2018, after the successful results of the experiment, which the NFFA manipulated for their own agenda. The 28th Amendment to the U.S Constitution is ratified. This amendment establishes one night a year — a nationwide event called "The Purge", which occurs on March 21 to 22 — in which all crimes (including murder, arson, and theft) are all legal, and all police, fire, and medical emergency services remain unavailable for 12 hours, from 7 P.M. that night until 7 A.M. the next day.
The only rules are that no government officials with authorization levels of 10 or higher can be attacked (that changes in
The Purge: Election Year as the NFFA is trying to assassinate Charlene "Charlie" Roan, an anti-Purge political candidate), and all weapons above Class 4 (explosive devices such as grenades, rocket launchers, bazookas, etc, weapons of mass destruction, and viral/biological and chemical agents) are forbidden. Anyone who violates the rules of The Purge would be publicly executed by hanging. The Purge has resulted in crime and unemployment rates plummeting to 1%, and a strong economy. Although it is thought to be used as an act of catharsis for the U.S. populace in order to supposedly lessen the motivation for people to commit crime for the rest of the year, the NFFA purposely sends its own agents to target and kill people living in low socio-economic communities, as a method of artificial population control.
