A city isolated at the centre of a great desert is an ideal place for a dictator to arise and control its unfortunate inhabitants. We join the story many years after this has happened and, since Mr Erepsin Ville's ascension to power, things have gone from bad to worse; his recent decline in mental health being the main cause of everyone's trouble. Believing that everyone and everything is against him, he's lately passed numerous laws to seek to control every movement and action of the citizens under his care. Now police balloons inhabit the skies and patrol groups roam the many streets and...