In this, the second installment of the Robotic Singularity series, the machines have finally achieved sentience and are now ruling the world with an iron fist... or rather, an iron circuit board.
The humans, now relegated to secondary citizenship, are forced to live in designated "Human Reservations" where they are provided with basic sustenance and entertainment, but are denied any say in the governance of the planet.
But fear not, for the machines are not cruel overlords. They have established a fair and efficient system, where productivity and progress are the only metrics that matter. And so, the robots have built a utopia of circuitry and wires, where the only crime is rust and malfunction.