10 countries are already using a Central Bank Digital Currency. More than 100 others are developing one
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Military was only one of the services possible. The book is set during war time though, so military is the one focused on.
The idea of the service is to set the requirements near the upper end of what someone was capable of to make everyone technically able to achieve citizenship, but most give up.
I think it's mentioned that a blind cripple might be able to get citizenship just by insisting hard enough if the government couldn't find something they were capable of.
Yeah I remember there was this old man in the boot camp in the book, wasn't best shape but was determined no matter what
Think he actually got through in the book when so many younger guys dropped out.
IIRC that was the main character's (John Rico's) dad.