 Five centuries before, World War XVII devastated most of the colonized planets of the Milky Way.The Galactic Conglomerate of Unified Planets, controlling the Bureau of Reasonable Entertainment, has maintained an era of calm and peaceful co-existence through the systematic suppression of any radical thought or action that may "stir up" the teeming masses of citizens populating the twelve star systems under their jurisdiction.Anything remotely resembling "fun" has been analyzed and sterilized.