Jason’s gym recently closed down due to the new UNITY mandate in his city. All unaligned gyms were to either convert to UNITY gyms or stop servicing the public. Physical fitness was important to UNITY, and they wanted to make sure all men were addressing their fitness in a disciplined way.
Jason knew the gym was where he needed to be after work every day or else he’d start getting depressed, so he signed up for one of the UNITY gyms near his apartment. Inside, a clean white gym with navy machines were arranged in an orderly fashion. Men working out in the UNITY uniform Jason had seen around town were everywhere.
“Hello! This brother is glad to see a new member at the gym!” said brother 91624. Jason couldn’t see under his navy coveralls if he was muscular or not, but saw a smile on 91624’s face that showed sincerity in his statement. “Before you enter the gym, we require all members to wear a UNITY uniform to ensure proper discipline when working out. There is a brother in the locker room ready to assist you in proper compliance.
The UNITY brother then handed Jason a folded set of navy coveralls, a crisp white button up shirt, black tie, white socks, white briefs, and shiny black dress shoes. Everything in Jason’s size. Jason was briefly stunned at how the brother knew his information, but moved to the locker room quickly as more brothers were coming in to work out, and he didn’t want to be in the way.
Inside the locker room, brothers were preparing for their workouts and new members were getting dressed in the UNITY coveralls and uniform. Jason wasn’t prepared to get changed as he was wearing his usual gym clothes, but he decided to change into the UNITY uniform so as not to stick out. “Let me help you with that,” said a brother. 72345 was his designation. Jason thanked the brother as the brother straightened Jason’s tie and zipped up his coveralls. Once the zipper was at the top, Jason saw himself in the mirror and thought he didn’t look half bad.
Once he was in the throes of working out, Jason started thinking to himself how he would enjoy joining UNITY, not realizing the UNITY pledge and tenants were playing over the gym loudspeakers underneath some generic music. By the end of his workout, he handed his unaligned clothing to the front desk to be recycled and began referring to himself by his designation: 91873.











