Alone in the woods, terrified for their lives, and responsible for the safety of a group of kids they rescued from the army base, Stephen and Billy decide to separate. Stephen takes the kids and heads west to the People's Republic, while Billy goes home to alert the people in the compound the soldiers are coming for them. Murder and chaos run rampant as they fight for their lives and their freedom. The two boys go down different paths over the years. Stephen becomes a spy living every day in terror of the Federal government realizing what he is and executing him, while Billy tries to make a good life in the new country with his wife and children, burdened with a heart heavy with worry for his friend. Both side are determined to reunite the two countries with one ruler presiding over all. A war explodes. Will either boy survive? Read the Peoples' Republic and travel along with Stephen and Billy on their harrowing journey to find out.