The year is 2084, and the U.S. has so thoroughly embraced big government that the Wapols (Washington politicians) and their army of pubrats (public bureaucrats) monitor your diet, your finances, even your sex life. But what happens when such an omni-present government becomes impotent? In the spirit of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, but written with the style and wit of Kurt Vonnegut, Eidam offers a humorous and thought-provoking cautionary tale against trading away our freedom to the nanny-state, and asks if it's possible for mankind to become so dependent, we lose the ability to live free.

When a virus threatens to wipe out all of mankind, President Poll and his D.C. cronies escape to a survival shelter leaving the rest of the world to perish. However, while the Wapols are safely locked away in their bubble, a mysterious recluse does what all the experts said was impossible: he develops a treatment that will save mankind from extinction. Only, he won't release it unconditionally.

He enlists a delivery boy, Clyde Sexler, to issue his demands, and soon the sixteen-year-old social reject finds himself playing a starring role in mankind’s salvation. But, after enjoying his newfound power and fame, Clyde begins to feel the tug of responsibility. The recluse's plans for rebooting civilization begin taking a turn for the bizarre. And with the Wapols busy fighting for control of their bubble, President Poll taking advice from his talking toilet, and the remaining Washington establishment concerned only with optics and clinging to power, Clyde might be mankind's last hope. Can he save us from certain death…or worse?