Indeed, imagination is unlimited, but mine wasn't piqued by the series in the slightest - it felt very much like a finished piece, and that the writers of the series had said all they wanted to say. Thus it follows that since the characters impressed themselves upon me as symbols rather than people, once the story had ended there was nothing left to be said about them.

With regard to the rest of the world in relation to the Academy: since the school represents for the most part adolescence, I would assume what lies in store for all of the character when they escape it is adulthood. In which, of course, they would revel in their freedom and newfound knowledge for a few years before entering and entirely different kind of Institution, wherein all freedom of thought and expression is crushed for most by endless repetition of the same acts and a sense of powerlessness that ultimate leaves them back where they started: caring only about themselves, their belongings, and their close friends and family.

All those who speak out against it are ridiculed for their lack of understanding of Reality and That Which Must Be; fear and ignorance of the outside world is as rampant as in the Academy.

The only way to leave this Institution is through death, and this time the death is without end.

/cynicism