Alias has decided to embark on yet another time travel adventure. Since everything significant and spectacular happened in 2050, he thought it best to let things settle and make 2070 his destination. He bumps into his old friend ‘Alas’, who had made the same decision. Alas is an on-line con-artist who follows in the footsteps of his father, a bank robber, who was made redundant when the cashless economy kicked in. Together, after a night on the booze in a robot operated pub, Alias and Alas embark on a fact-finding mission exploring their new world, which appears to be plodding along in crime and corruption much the same as the old one. Nothing much has changed in the USA and Russia. Both are still ruled by the financial elite. China is now a flourishing democracy following a turbulent era of regime changes. All its surviving ‘wolf warrior diplomats’ are now working as shepherds! The Tory party in Britain has been replaced with the Islamic party. In Germany, the MDU (Muslim Domination Union) has taken over the ruling position of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and North and South Korea are happily united. A vast middle class has emerged globally, but sadly, human life is still the cheapest and most dispensable commodity in various regions. Alias and Alas are delighted and thankful for the new universal super vaccine ‘Astrapfizamodernica’, pandemics are now a thing of the past. On the other hand, and to Alas’ financial demise, the most valuable crypto currency, toilet paper, has crashed and become worthless; ‘good for nothing’, except for wiping people’s backsides.