In the year 2020, after years of stop-go economy and recession, the British people, like their French counterparts over two hundred years before, came out onto the streets. In the short and bloody conflict that followed, the people became the victors. However, the New Order did not chop off any heads. In fact they sentenced none of the old order to death. Many an arrested Ariso wished that they had done so! At one or other Rehabilitation Centre set up around the land, they were systematically trained to serve and obey their New Order masters. In the same way as the French revolutionaries had to keep the blood lust going to hold power, so did the leaders of the New Order. Once every Aristo had either escaped or been captured, their attention was turned on those who had aided their enemies in the past. Those in power hung onto it by denouncing anyone that became a threat, even going so far as to protect gangs of criminals that could be made use of. Among the rulers, blackmail and corruption was a hundred times more prevalent than in the old days - the New Order survived by continually finding victims for the public’s sadistic lust...