Beck then announces a lottery to select 800,000 American citizens under the age of 50 to enter the shelter along with 200,000 other people who were preselected for various reasons.
When the initial plan to destroy the comet fails in spectacular fashion, President Beck announces to the world that he and other world leaders have been building large underground shelters, with America’s being located in Missouri.
As dark and morbid as it may sound to have a lottery of a fraction of the country’s population, it does seem like something you would see happening in today’s world if something like this went down, especially when you realize that 200,000 of the country’s richest and most notable figures would find a way to get in before everyone else.