Welcome to Ruinstaaten! Visit our beautiful capital city. Enjoy our ocean vistas. Crime is low, and families live harmoniously within the protective walls of our great land. Ruinstaaten, the gem of the modern world. Ruinstaaten...where not all is as it seems. Meet Harriet Veratten, Citizen of Ruinstaaten. Marked a traitor by accident of birth. Removed from family and denied advancement in life at every level. Born into a dying world where her steadfast adherence to the rules has gotten her nowhere. Harriet wants more for herself, for her husband, for the child she desperately wishes to have. More comes with a price, however. A price Harriet unwittingly pays, changing the course of everything. Welcome to Ruinstaaten.