"This future earth-one vast and stratified society that brutally ejects all who fail to conform.
Barrent had been tried, convicted, and brainwashed on Earth-an Earth frozen by fear of the radical, and the new. For his crime, Barrent has been sent to Omega-a prison planet walled by a ring of guardships that permitted no escape.
Omega was a world of horror, where living and dying were by the law of tooth-and -claw.
Omega was a planet with its own religion-the worship of evil. A planet with its own pleasures-drug induced hallucinations and sex fantasies, and blood-sport games with human prey.
Omega had its own status system-only a killer could climb the ladder of success, one corpse at a time. The life expectancy of a new arrive on Omega was three Earth years…"
The Status Civilization, Robert Sheckley, Dell Publishing, © 1960
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