The people's Republic of Absurdia - Ed Spencer

FRED McVELLY, womanising confidante to drug-addled President Terry Hair, is having the time of his life. With Britain in meltdown, he's created an ecofascist nanny state - just to see if he can. Parliament and the Royal Family have been disbanded and each Citizen's every move is regulated and recorded. Even posting a letter on the wrong day can mean getting banged up.When an anonymous terrorist resurfaces, calling for revolution, and with the President convinced rivals are out to get him, Fred and media mogul Signor Oli Garqi hatch a plan. Their ruse is to make heavy-drinking Pontiff a tabloid sensation and national hero. But exasperated by the nation's collective idiocy and engaged in a spot of terrorism himself, Pontiff is in no mood to play along.