Prologue

Deep in the bowels of an abandoned mine, a mile-and-a-half beneath the town of South Megiddo, West Virginia, Rod Meaney, the Vice President of The Most Powerful Nation The World Has Ever Known, awoke with an erection. This was nothing new. Vice President Rod Meaney had gone to sleep with an erection, had maintained his erection all night, and fully expected to maintain his erection throughout the coming day and well beyond. Such was his potency.

What follows is the story of Vice President Rod Meaney’s extraordinary potency, which is, not incidentally, also the story of how Civilization As We Know It came to an end...