/lit/ - Literature

How's this idea strike people:

NASA discovers a meteorite in ~2020-2030 due to collide with Earth, but not until ~3000. The size and speed of the object make its elimination impossible, so humanity has no option to evacuate Earth.

The actual story takes place around 2400, where a fragmented U.N. masks the collusion of superpower governments to evacuate the Earth but keep their interests at heart. Tons of population control and science and tech innovation's underway to try and shrink the worlds populations, as well as get them off the planet. We're also seeing mass sequencing of every organisms genomes, and a Google-steetview-esc photography of the entire planet done by drones. There's a handful of space elevators, and significant but still growing populations of people living in torus space-stations due to orbit Mars, while they assemble blimps for Venus and the asteroid belt to be Grey-goo'd.

Plot would revolve around an Interpol detective tracking down governments skirting their population reductions, before spiralling into some much greater mystery.