Jay has always been a loner trying to survive in a damn dangerous world all but wiped out by invaders. If someone had told him that he would become the founder of a new state, then he would have laughed at such a fool. But the universe has its own plans, in which ordinary people are assigned the role of banal observers. The planet is now free, but this is no longer the world familiar to people, now it is the New Earth, with its own harsh rules and laws.