As the world deteriorates, one place begins to thrive.

Growing, innovating, flourishing, people here build with astonishing speed and quality. Health, water, food, new homes, communications, transportation on and off the planet — those living in the State of Reason seem able to solve any problem.

A political state to the outside world, inside a two thousand mile coastline that rivals the United States, this mere association of individuals — some wealthy, others once poor, now wealthy soon to be — apparently has it all.

Trouble looms on the horizon.

Malcontents seek to destroy this newly gestating haven of progress. Joy, Praeger, Claus, Zhou, and a dozen threatened countries work to bring down the State of Reason.

Franklin, Everon, Victoria, Samua, Hunt, Mary, Ray, Jacob, Naomi and the rest must create solutions the world has never seen — both within and outside the State of Reason — to avoid catastrophe.