Department of Rodent Affairs

It is 1931, and America has become a strange place. The dark alleys of the criminal underworld to crowd as squeakeasies and dropship vendors pop in and out of sight like ghosts.   Farms downsize as the industrialization of America's blue collar-work calls for more factory workers. Fields rot and lay fallow.   The Department of Rodent Affairs fares no better. The land is sold to rodents, to "encourage" them to move out of the cities to start farms and communities. Done in the name of "self sufficiency" and to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" the real reason is more sinister :   Inter-racial relations have suffered. Mice are no longer welcome in the nicer parts of town, and get the blame for everything from missing goods to flu outbreaks.   This is the story of a farming community, the illegal activities that sustain it, and the choice a mouse has to make to keep himself and his friends afloat.   "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair