It's 1955, the height of the Cold War. Premier Nafka Yentsin is the brutal leader of Beyzakia, a tiny but crucially important independent totalitarian Balkan state. Yentsin has been in negotiations with the United States regarding opening up commercial relations with the Western democracies to improve the weak Beyzakian economy. Treaty conditions include the enactment of political and civil rights reforms. An ad hoc joint intelligence task force recruits...