[@Lady Selune]

Yes, but words are considered as precious.  If you speak, it's the one way people in this society know you truly mean what you say. However, you can still deceive....for the price of your vitality.  

I didn't think of the consequences of people being BORN. Should they be grown in test tubes Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) style?  Or should they have normal viviparous births, with young infants and children using up a good portion of their word count as they mature? 



EDIT:  Is this also more of a nation RP?  This went from me taking a cutesie one liner "words are oxygen" and creating an entire society based off that premise.  This is turning into Divergent in my head. :/