China is undertaking a controversial social experiment, in which citizens are rewarded for good behaviour, and undesirable acts are punished. Your accumulated social credit score could determine your fate.

The Chinese government is employing citizens to keep watch over the behaviour of their friends and neighbours, and by 2020, this surveillance system could become nationwide, tracking the behaviour of every single citizen. As the system has started to create a chasm between the haves and have-nots, people are asking, is this a cure to uncivilised behaviour, or a tool to silence descent?

From the series Get Real: Behind the Headlines.