Career chip

The career chips are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent career. People are given the chip for the job they're best at. The chips can somehow be removed from the stomachs of space wasps. It is against the law to not have a career chip implanted, or to have it removed, and the punishment for such an act is to be "fired, out of a cannon, into the sun". People who take such actions are labelled as "job deserters."