Oath of fealty

in The Near Future, Los Angeles Is An All But Uninhabitable War Zone, Racked By Crime, Violence, Pollution And Poverty. But Above The Blighted City, A Utopia Has Arisen: Todos Santos, A Thousand-foot High Single-structured City, Designed To Used State-of-the-art Technology To Create A Completely Human-friendly Environment, Offering Its Dwellers Everything They Could Want In Exchange For Their Oath Of Allegiance And Their Constant Surveillance . But There Are Those Who Want To See The Utopia Destroyed, Whose Answer To Tomorrow's Best And Brightest Hope Is Mindless Violence. And They Have Just Entered Todos Santos. . . . (Back cover) A few years after tomorrow, above a ruined Los Angeles where crime, violence, pollution and poverty still rule the streets, a Utopia rises. Todos Santos. A thousand-foot-high single-structured city. The perfect blend of technology and humanism, offering its privileged dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance. But there are those who would see Utopia destroyed. Those who would tear down the hope of tomorrow in violent act after violent act. And they have just entered Todos Santos. A modern utopia, rising out of the heart of Los Angeles, stands as a giant symbol of exclusion and repression to the residents of the surrounding city