By the beginning of the twenty-first century, imperial Russia, a prosperous patriarchal state, occupies one of the leading places in world politics, arguing for global influence with Great Britain, France, Germany and other developed European powers. And there is simply no America - neither North nor South: one huge ocean stretches from the western to the eastern borders of Eurasia... Count Nikolai Nikolaevich Lopukhin, a secret agent of the Third Division, receives a personal order from the emperor - to accompany the heir to the throne, heading for an official visit to Japan. During the voyage, Lopukhin manages to uncover an international conspiracy to eliminate the heir. Now all that remains is to upset the plans of the attackers - on the high seas, without the support of the Russian fleet, at gunpoint of the ship's guns of the Icelandic pirates, who have the latest invulnerable superlincore...