The Superflu has killed 97% of the people on the planet. No government. No economy. No manufacturing. No justice system. No mass market packaged food. Clean water is questionable. Electricity is spotty. The Internet is a shell of what it used to be. The military is reinventing itself. The remaining 3% are struggling to survive. Maggie Shearin has been elected Mayor of her tiny community, a fragment of the sprawling metropolitan suburb it used to be. Maggie faces challenges on every front, from ensuring her community has clean water, food and power, to protecting it from roving marauders and unscrupulous politicians. Join Maggie and her friends as they strive to reconnect with the nation. No community is an island, and no nation can exist without its people.