In 1914 they called it THE FANTASTIC War, and few could imagine anything even worse. For nearly three decades a peace forged in bloodstream and fatigue has held sway in THE UNITED STATES. Today, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar guidelines Alaska, and Britain, under Winston Churchill, chafes for the go back to its previous glory. But behind the façade of globe order, America is certainly a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the person to light the fuse.

In the White House in Philadelphia, Socialist Chief executive Al Smith is a full time income symbol of hope for a nation that is through the fires of war as well as the flood tides of depression. In the South, Featherston and his ruling Independence Party have put down a Negro rebellion using a bloody fist and have interned them in concentration camps. Now they are established to crush their North neighbor no matter what.