- The chapter opens with a discussion Karellen and Stormgren had a long time ago (seeing as Stormgren is totally dead at this point). The conversation is on the proper use of power.
- Back in the present, Karellen and the other Overlords bring mankind into a Golden Age, a utopia, a scientific Eden, a technological paradise, a… a really swell time to be alive…?
- Education and technology are as commonplace as death and taxes, and crime practically vanishes, minus the occasional crime of passion.
- With the increase in tech, aircars become the main mode of transit, and people zip about the world with extraordinary ease.
- Religion also becomes a relic from a past age, coinciding with the simultaneous decline of science. Hey, why should humanity try to eke out the secrets of the universe when the Overlords have all the answers to any and all pop quizzes?
- But some wonder if the Overlords will always work toward the good of human society.