{"product_id":"retrotopia-9781945810022","title":"Retrotopia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFORWARD TO THE PAST The year is 2065. Decades ago  the United States of America fell apart after four brutal years of civil war  and the fragments coalesced into new nations divided by economic and political rivalries. Most of the post-US America is wracked by poverty and civil strife  with high-tech skyscrapers rising above crowded  starving slumsbut one of the new nations  the Lakeland Republic of the upper Midwest  has gone its own way  isolated from the rest by closed frontiers and trade embargoes. Now Peter Carr  an emissary from the newly elected administration in the Atlantic Republic  boards a train to cross the recently reopened border into Lakeland territory on a mission that could decide the fate of his nation. Ahead of him lies a cascade of experiences that will challenge his most basic assumptions about economics  politics  and the direction history is moving. Alone among the post-USA republics of North America  the Lakeland Republic has achieved prosperity and internal peace  and its done so by modeling its future on the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273385631797,"sku":"ByrdShop_1945810025","price":242.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781945810022.jpg?v=1780488584","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/retrotopia-9781945810022","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}