Short story It ' s the reason I exist . Long story During a fated meeting between Roosvelt , Churchill and Stalin , my country was traded for Greece . Thus we were forced to accept communism . Under it , the president was really keen in growing the population so they basically took control of women reproductive right with severe punishments for abortions , no birth control and financial incentives to have more children . I was born the 4 th , extremely unwanted child on a low middle class family in the last months before the fall of the communism . If mom had gotten pregnant with me a year later , I would have been a mass of dead deuterostome cells in a obgyn ' s waste bucket . <| sep |> They can ' t just pick up the slack . It would take years to transition away . They would also want access for military vessels .