From the introduction: Earth, 2018. Well… a kind of Earth. Everything is the same on the surface, but underneath, everyone is… weird. Politicians have lost even the basic sheen of decency you might be familiar with them having, weird, nonsensical things are happening all the time, and Space seems to be behaving oddly. Wait... what? What do you mean there are Nazis on the moon? And... the Earth is hollow? Man... whatever.