In an alternate timeline, the Confederates States of America emerged victorious in the Civil War, but eventually fell to a Communist revolution in 1961 given their oppressive society. This is a spy story set in this universe where the United States is surrounded on all sides by communist enemies, and the last hope of avoiding an overthrow of the US government lies in the adventures of ordinary heroes. Thematically, this story is one about trying to find belonging when you have no clear place in the world, and the importance of friends and focusing on your own experience when society does not match your expectation.