May 19, 2027: The United States is now The New United States. Los Angeles is mostly a wasteland after a multi-pronged biological, nuclear and electromagnetic pulse attack paralyzed and altered Southern California on July 4, 2016. Without electricity and under the influence of a virus heightening racial preferences, Southern California fractured into four distinct ethnic enclaves battling each other until the New United States provides an offer New Angelinos cannot refuse: The Raffle. After ten years, Ramsey Arami finally makes it to the final stage of the final and is "encouraged" by The New United States to write a letter to any family living in the New United States. Ramsey pens a letter to his wife and daughter living in the NUS having made a fateful and fortunate trip east without him on July 3, 2016. Ramsey explains the last ten years, but should he so blindly trust The New United States?