Ken, a campaign worker for PolicyFirst, and Mishima, a special agent working for Information, are the two main POVs in this micro-democracy election thriller.

I enjoyed the premise of the micro-democracy a lot. Humanity is divided into 100.000 people "Centenals". Each centenal gets to elect their government. Governments are the equivalent of our political parties. Each "government" can govern one or many Centenals. They make the major laws, rules for their Centenals. A government can have a Centenals in Europe, Asia, the Americas etc. spread out all across the globe. A few major powers are: Heritage - current and past holder of the Supermajority (most Centenals), Philip Morris (the most powerful of the so-called 'Corporates'), PolicyFirst, Liberty.

Elections are held every 10 years. It's election time and campaigning is wild. Information is the agency that is not itself running as a government but providing everyone with ALL the information - at the blink of an eye. This is after all a future high-tech society. But while war has been eradicated other problems haven't. And some people maybe aren't all that happy with the political structures that have - at this point - existed for the past 20 years.

I loved the premise, loved the tech - the way Information works is interesting. It's not quite the same as our internet more like... a giant Facebook with ever more surveillance. The tech is brilliant and enjoyable - one of the better pieces of the book, along with the protagonists.

However, this was published at the start of the previous US election cycle and at this point two years later I am still not quite recovered from having had enough about elections. The whole plot revolves around the election however and debates, and campaigning, manipulation and plots to possibly change the out-come.

What made up for that are the two main characters who both get drawn into the swirling machinations of those who want to manipulate their way to the top. Both Ken and Mishima are idealists who fight for what they believe is right.

Where it all fell apart for me was at the end when the reveals and resolutions happen on every page and I just never figured out how they caught one of the bad guys. How did Liberty get caught in the end? I figured out what happened with Heritage - the tunnel thing was obvious and they had proof of that. But the catching of Liberty was more subtle... So I kind of missed that one in all the turmoil at the end, I just realized that suddenly the story was over and everything resolved.

This is a 3.5* for me fun-wise. Not sure if I will read the sequel. However it was well-written and executed so I have to round up.