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Forty plucky kids ranging in age from 8 to 15 spend 40 days without parents or Playstations in Bonanza City, N.M., a ghost town where they try to build a working community while cooking their own meals, hauling their water, cleaning their outhouses and even running businesses such as the root beer-dispensing saloon.

They also elect four peer leaders who will pass laws and set bedtimes. No one is "voted out" at the town meeting that closes each episode, but any kids who have had enough can simply raise their hands and leave. How many will stick it out?

Kid Nation premieres Wednesday September 19 at 8PM ET/PT on CBS.

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