Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI lands in California in the year 2025 after a two decade odyssey around the solar system searching for places where Earth's excess population can be settled. He finds no hospitable planet. The overpopulated world has created global warming, a reduction in available fresh water, the reduction of natural resources, an increase in pollution and waste, more wars and increased crime. With his three friends he visits six countries and encounters a number of solutions to society's problems--such as licensing parents to have babies. Some countries are working to solve the world's problems, some are not.