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Annual Purge is an event of movies The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year, The First Purge, The Forever Purge, and the TV series The Purge.

Summary[]

The Annual Purge was an annual event created by the NFFA that legalized all crimes for 12 hours. It was held from March 22, 2024 starting from 7pm until 7am. However, it was founded under a lie to reduce the American population.

History[]

The NFFA overthrew the U.S. Government in 1990 and established a totalitarian government as well as a police state. To balance the economy and to stabilize the society, they devised a plan to ratify the 28th Amendment of the US Constitution.

With the ratification executed, the plan was revealed to be "The Purge", an event that made all crimes, including murder, legal for 12 hours, and the suspension of emergency services like the police forces, medical services, and fire departments.

2016 Test Run[]

The annual Purge began as a test run confined only in Staten Island, New York. During the early stage of the experiment, crimes were mostly criminal misdemeanors, small felonies, as well as acts of disorderly conduct such as vandalism, looting, rowdy parties and other peace disturbing acts. However, in order to make it look successful, corrupt NFFA officials tampered with the experiment and planted mercenaries to kill people on the island.

As mercenaries committed the murders, they also dropped weaponry in various areas of Staten Island in order to provoke participation from the residents.

With the success of the 2016 test run, the NFFA announced of a nationwide Purge, the first of which commenced in 2017. However, for unknown reasons, the 2017 Purge wasn't counted as the first Annual Purge. It was considered the First Experimental National Purge.

2023 Annual Purge[]

In a dystopian United States run by totalitarian political party New Founding Fathers of America, the annual Purge, a 12-hour event that legalizes all crimes without authorities intervening, is credited as having saved the country's collapsing economy. While everyone across the United States prepares for the carnage, the nation's impoverished population is no longer seen as people, but as living garbage, whom the wealthy denounce as only living to serve their needs. However, before the sixth annual purge begins on March 21, 2023, a successful anti-purge resistance group led by Carmelo Johns and his partner, the Stranger from the first film, hijack government feeds to denounce the New Founding Fathers and their actions.

2040 Annual Purge[]

Charlie Roan's presidential candidacy marks the first step of the NFFA losing influence due to her advocacy ending the annual Purge. In order to prevent the 28th Amendment from being overturned, the NFFA abolishes the rule granting immunity to government officials under the pretense of regaining public trust, allowing the public to target them for the first time.

Roan's candidacy is also endangered when NFFA presidential candidate Edwige Owens and other top ranking NFFA officials plan to murder her. This fails, however as Roan managed to survive the Purge night and her anti-purge supporters managed to kill Caleb Warren, leader of the NFFA and most of its member in a church which they used in an attempt to sacrificially kill Roan.

2048 Annual Purge[]

After two terms of Charles Roan, the NFFA regains power and installs the Purge all over again. However, the Purge goes out of control due to the Ever After Purge phenomenon, which purgers do not stop purging even after the sound of the siren. This causes the country to plunge into civil war as the purgers madly go on full-blown warfare with the police and the military as well the NFAA resistance.

Outrage of the action of the NFFA for reinstalling the purge, NFAA resistance target the party members, causing the NFAA to declare martial law. After prolong violence, the Congress, Senate, Supreme Court and the military blame the NFAA for the never-ending unrest and disband them for good as well as the Purge. Charle Roan's anti-purge policy is then reinstalled and this time permanently.

Abolition[]

Following Roan's election to the presidency, she overturns the 28th Amendment. With the United States safe again, the NFFA loses influence although their supporters stage violent protests in response to the results.

Rules[]

Upon the establishment of the Purge, rules were also implemented. Emergency broadcast systems are activated and broadcast these rules as follows:

  • Sirens blare throughout the land to signal the start and end of The Purge.
  • All police, fire, and medical emergency services remain unavailable or suspended for the twelve-hour Purge.
    • Any medical personnel (i.e. doctors, nurses, medtechs, midwives, etc) and ambulances who volunteer to be out assisting are also granted immunity. It's an unwritten rule; as a decrease in medical workers would be counterproductive.
  • Government officials of ranking 10 or higher are granted immunity (revoked in 2040 to legalize the murder of a political opponent).
    • This would include medical workers and astronauts, technically; given how much effort goes into training one.
  • Only "Class 1-4" weaponry are permitted for use while any arms of "Class 5" (explosive devices such as grenades, rocket launchers, bazookas, weapons of mass destruction, and viral/biological and chemical agents) remain prohibited.
    • This rule is often broken both by the NFFA and Resistance Forces
  • Public hanging is the penalty for violators of any rules.

List of Annual Purges[]

No. Name Start date End date Appearances
Movies TV series
1 2 3 4 5 1 2
1 Staten Island Experiment 21 March 2016 22 March 2016 ✔️ ✔️
2 Unknown nationwide Purge 21 March 2017 22 March 2017 ✔️
3 1st Annual Purge 21 March 2018 22 March 2018 ✔️ ✔️
4 2nd Annual Purge 21 March 2019 22 March 2019 ✔️
5 3rd Annual Purge 21 March 2020 22 March 2020 ✔️
6 4th Annual Purge 21 March 2021 22 March 2021 ✔️
7 5th Annual Purge 21 March 2022 22 March 2022 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
8 6th Annual Purge 21 March 2023 22 March 2023 ✔️
9 7th Annual Purge 21 March 2024 22 March 2024
10 8th Annual Purge 21 March 2025 22 March 2025
11 9th Annual Purge 21 March 2026 22 March 2026 ✔️
12 10th Annual Purge 21 March 2027 22 March 2027 ✔️
13 11th Annual Purge 21 March 2028 22 March 2028 ✔️ ✔️
14 12th Annual Purge 21 March 2029 22 March 2029
15 13th Annual Purge 21 March 2030 22 March 2030
16 14th Annual Purge 21 March 2031 22 March 2031
17 15th Annual Purge 21 March 2032 22 March 2032
18 16th Annual Purge 21 March 2033 22 March 2033
19 17th Annual Purge 21 March 2034 22 March 2034
20 18th Annual Purge 21 March 2035 22 March 2035
21 19th Annual Purge 21 March 2036 22 March 2036 ✔️
22 20th Annual Purge 21 March 2037 22 March 2037 ✔️
23 21st Annual Purge 21 March 2038 22 March 2038
24 22nd Annual Purge 21 March 2039 22 March 2039
25 23rd Annual Purge 21 March 2040 22 March 2040 ✔️
26 24th Annual Purge 21 March 2049 N/A ✔️

Trivia[]

  • In Anarchy its shown the wealthy hire thugs to kidnap people for them to hunt for sport. Plus some will pay a family for a sacrifice.
  • Only idiots do last minute shopping on Purge day.
  • Business districts are empty the most; making them safe spots. Banks move their cash before the Purge.
  • Technically, if you stole something it would become your legal property after the Purge; since it was legal to commit crime. Though if you stole a car, you would need to get the insurance for it.
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