Story opens at a campaign rally on an alien planet called Suidonj.  Pig-like creatures in the crowd are being whipped into a frenzy by an announcer who's about to introduce the day's star speaker, Landrase Jahmff.  Candidate Jahmff was once a political outsider who burst into global politics only recently.  His rise to prominence has been just as strange as the sudden transformation within Suidonji society.  If all goes as planned his upstart Industrial Party will easily sweep the ruling Conservatives from office.  However he still has to face a rather formidable opponent in the form of Gilt Duroc, head of the recently established Progressives.  This faction mostly caters to the urban educated elite throughout the planet and opposes Jahmff and his largely rural working class constituency in practically every facet of their beliefs.  The stage is set for a head-to-head clash between two political heavyweights.  What's at stake is the political and moral future of an entire world.