In the year 5000 AD, as Earth's total population surpassed 700 billion, the federal government predicted that within ten years at most, it would no longer be able to bear the enormous costs of keeping society running. The government decided to bind ten of the strongest private companies through equity stakes and have them develop the polar regions and deserts into habitable places. But capital was divided against itself, and traitors lurked within the federal government. In the end, the government was brought down by the strain of internal and external crises.
