California Congressman Adam Daniel proposes a drastic solution to the national debt. His idea is rejected by his peers and the citizenry. Politically isolated, the politician leads a consortium of U.S. industry in a treasonous solution of their own - New Nation - afloat in the Pacific Ocean. Can the politician challenge The United States' global primacy with a new form of democracy? Can his vision for New Nation survive indictments for treason, international treachery, giant tsunamis, and nuclear blackmail?