This is quite long, but I have strayed from the inspiration text in important places, so please do read.
There is an international coup that covers your nation (and I know most nations have strong protections in place, but let's just go with it). The new government tells you they know how to end poverty, hunger, war, homelessness, and crime. All they have to do is remove the major causes of any kind of strong feeling, and -- as they delicately put it -- bring in one or two minor restrictions.
Firstly, to achieve an ideal population, the optimum number of people will be randomly required to breed. Everyone else will be summoned for sterilisation.
Secondly, everyone will be assigned a job. They will be guaranteed job security -- they will do it their whole working life. This means that, if you are assigned as Road Sweeper #20123, you will sweep the same stretch of road forever.
Finally, anything that causes wars, fights, arguments or passion is banned. The nation will begin again without strong feeling as -- to borrow from Brave New World -- "when the individual feels, the community reels". So, all religion will be rigorously suppressed, hard science is no longer to be practised, politics henceforth no longer exists (although they will make decisions for your benefit, they assure you), culture will be stripped to things designed not to elicit any real feelings of any kind, sports teams will be disbanded, all literature -- which is designed to make people feel identify with its characters -- will be burnt.
They tell you that other steps they are taking includes: state distribution of drugs that lead to "happy and good" peaceful behaviour, ensuring that everyone is housed, guaranteeing access to healthcare, and ensuring that the deprivation that leads to crime no longer exists.
Everyone will learn how to be a perfect model citizen, a cog in the great social machine, and the community will be strong, stable and peaceful -- forever.
On the other hand, if you don't want to stay in this new society and be a cog, there is an alternative. There are Individualist Territories -- places with generally bad climates or bad soil that they thought it not worth the cost of integrating into this new society. They will send you to one of your choice (you are guaranteed to arrive safely). There, you can have the arts, literature, religion, feelings and politics to your heart's content.
You can also have everything else, too -- war, poverty, homelessness, hunger, sickness (you'd better hope doctors and scientists leave with you). The new society won't help you and you will never be free to return, should it not meet your expectations (you could try to reach a different Individualist Territory, but they are far apart, and you would be on your own in your attempt to reach it and may not like it more).
So... do you become part of this brave new world or claim the right to not be a cog?
And, if so what was it that you couldn't stand losing, or was the whole thing too much?