A sample of alien technology falls into the hands of an intelligent teenage girl. Without troubling to inform the general public of this fact, she uses its capabilities as she sees fit. Various pleasant little things that so successfully brightened everyday life do not satisfy the artifact’s happy owner. A series of risky experiments in geopolitics and sociology creates a situation where constant intervention and control become an urgent necessity, and any attempt to abandon the helm is tantamount to a global catastrophe. There are plenty of clashes and battles, but they are mostly virtual. Which cannot be said of their victims, whose number reaches into the billions. What can you do? The source of the biggest problems is always intelligence.