The nuclear explosions have died down, and the terrifying war swept across the country. In the ashes, driven by nostalgia for a “bright past,” people built a new Soviet Union—or, more precisely, a country that pretended to be it.
Palace of the Soviets, Communist Party, planned economy, old brands—and at the same time computer networks, cybernetics, space flights, cloning, and robots. They wanted to turn this world into the world of Alice Seleznyova, but reality made adjustments to the dream of universal happiness. And Major of the KGB Ivanov, a cybernetic knight without fear or reproach, didn’t yet know that he would have to test how unbreakable the revived Union of “free republics” truly was.