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Closest we've got would probably be that Charles Stross story about the norks unexpectedly winning the space race.

Yeah, we know Ukraine is ground zero for the oligarchy beta-testing whatever cyberpunk torment nexuses they've got in the pipeline from having entire populations massacred with conscription so their lands can be stolen and sold to politically connected megacorporations to have an orwellian...

yep

Just so everyone knows, this isn’t a hypothetical situation. Ukraine is currently prototyping digital currency, entirely so they can cut off anyone who doesn’t report to slavery conscription in the meatgrinder battalion. https://cryptonews.net/news/finance/28528830/

It'd actually be really easy to fix, just grow the clones from the genomes of those rare naturally fertile humans with natural immunity, but it's a feature not a bug. If the Vatborn are unable to reproduce naturally, this makes them a captive market.

Cloning mammals is decades-old technology, if given immunity from legal consequences of failed experiments, IE, dead babies and a national security budget of "yes", scientists could have the first vatborn human decanted in a matter of months, the first factories up and running in years...

It's not necessarily political. Maybe it's just cold out?

Same principle.