Often times groups of citizens share a single section of an apartment.Ĭitizens are granted the minimum of what they need to survive, such as a standardized diet and home. The penalty for Citizens who choose to disobey the Combine (or are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time) is summary execution, forced conscription into the Overwatch or Stalker transformation, conducted at Nova Prospekt. Citizens are also apparently forced to wear identical blue denim boiler suits, and women have their hair cut short. In an attempt to prevent tightly knit communities and organizations of any kind from forming, the Civil Protection authorities transfer Citizens from one city to another as many as three times a year. Civil Protection officers themselves are encouraged to undergo transhuman surgery to join the ranks of the Overwatch. Citizens are encouraged to join Civil Protection by promises of better rations. Comments made by Citizen onlookers seem to suggest this is a regular occurrence. As seen in Half-Life 2's first chapter, Point Insertion, Civil Protection officers sometimes stage raids on residential buildings to arrest and imprison alleged rebels and sympathizers. Civil Protection officers are feared for their brutality, as they often bully Citizens and administer beatings at the slightest provocation. Staffed by unmodified humans, as opposed to the transhuman Overwatch, Civil Protection acts as the Combine's police force and handles the affairs of policing and monitoring the populace in the cities. The Combine also established the Civil Protection force.
The Combine also erected a Suppression Field, to prevent procreation.
These new "Citizens" of the Combine's empire are provided with accommodation, rations and protection from the Xen aliens that infest much of the world. The remaining population was rounded up into the still-standing cities, which were re-designated with numbers instead of names ( 14, 17, etc.).
After a successful invasion, the Combine began to establish their dictatorship over the Earth, creating Overwatch Soldiers from human soldiers captured during the Seven Hour War.
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