(The humour is off-kilter, irreverent, and quirky – really appealed to me!)

The book tells the story of a terrorist who becomes disillusioned with the weakness to vested interests of the wealthy of the United States Municipal Survey (an agency of the US federal government that constructs infrastructure for municipal governments) and the civil servant and robot who end up bringing him to justice, who realizes that the terrorist is correct on the principles and that the USMS is a deeply flawed institution.

Truly unlocking the enormous benefits of agglomeration economies would require a fair distribution of infrastructure, which the USMS struggles with – the USMS refuses to challenge local political leaderships in how unequally they distribute infrastructure.