It's the fall of 2060. The War of Interdependence is long over and a new society based on the tenets of socialism and social justice have replaced the U.S.A.. The United Socialist States of America was born under a flag of 'fairness and safety for all'. Texas has succeeded from the union leaving the remaining forty-nine states under an iron tyranny of kindness, sensitivity and redistribution, enforced by the firm hand of the state Safety & Sensitivity police who keep a keen eye on every form of hate and dissension. The constitution, that archaic symbol of Western personal liberty and freedom, has been replaced by the 'Fairness Doctrine', a document that enshrines the principles of social justice enforced by a socialist government.. Gone is the scourge of so-called free speech, due process, private property and the right to bear arms. Fairness and collectivism rule the land, 'for the good of all' is the rallying cry. Society is divided into two classes; the historically oppressed (Oppers), and the historically oppressive (Deplores). That which does not fit within the dogma of the 'New Order' is outlawed or abolished. Hate too is abolished and is defined as the government sees fit to define it. Personal initiative is considered a crime against those who lack it. The lives of citizens are dictated solely by the whim of the state. The intellectual elite control the economy as it crumbles. Good intentions are considered the highest virtue, regardless of how disastrous the outcomes. Everyone has the ultimate freedom...the freedom to conform. Against this backdrop, in early 2061, four friends decide to run the gauntlet and escape from their lives of fairness and obedience to the unknown freedom of Texas, risking everything to live life on their own terms. They will trek an arduous journey from Philadelphia and the 'scream at the night sky rallies' to Florida and a day at Dizversity World, the most progressive place on earth, to the freedom of Galveston. All the while they are relentlessly pursued by a committed and ideologically possessed S&S agent determined to stop them at any cost. By train, car and boat the four stay one step ahead of social justice until a high ranking politician, her power and status threatened by the fugitives, becomes personally involved leading to a high seas confrontation that none of them could have predicted and possibly none might survive.