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Adita is a seventy year old woman, autistic and anxious around people. She keeps so much to herself, though she lives in a village with a tight sense of community, with friendly neighbors who make it their business to talk to her every morning, to help her whenever she has garden work, and to share with foods and drinks in evening festivities. As the climate crisis ravages the world, they care for each other and survive the worst of the disaster.

To avoid being seen as anti-social, Adita volunteers to chair the committee for national defense, for it is easy for her to meet other people in a work-related environment, than if it is purely to drink tea and gossip about whatever is on the TV. She thinks it will be an easy job since it only involves coordinating efforts to respond to natural disasters, both within and outside their country, and these are frequent and drastic.

But then, a heavily armed colonizer attacks her people, and she realizes that she is the equivalent of a Minister for Defense, responsible for the safety of the entire nation, though she is just a peasant woman.

Her village is in the near future, in an African country simply called The People's Federation, a loose union of hundreds of thousands of village-states. It is decentralized, having gotten rid of the central government, the president, and politicians. Instead, thousands of ordinary citizens form committees that govern the country in a direct democracy, using an opensource platform called Yat Madit, which translates to Big Tree. Technological advancements mean every village is largely self-sufficient, with 3D printers making it possible to manufacture anything, hence there is no capitalism. Their good fortunes attract a superpower, the USA, who with its African ally, Kenya, want the technology that makes the Federation a techno-utopia. They invade, imagining it will be a walkover, for the Federation does not have an army, nor does it have any kind of weapons.

Will Adita find a way to defeat the invaders? Will the Federation survive intact, or will the war cause a disintegration of their utopia?