For the Common Good

Being gay in 2036 America is treacherous: same-sex marriage is again illegal, homosexual teachers are banned from classrooms merely being outed will ruin your social responsibility score, your career, and probably your life. But that's not enough, according to the Reverend Jimmy Goodfellow and his Christian Kingdom. For him, only Project Exodus, and its fabricated threat of a mutated AIDS pandemic, can purge the homosexual menace once and for all.

Telegenic young senator Chaise Landon is anointed by Goodfellow and the three leaders of the nation's mega-corporations, an alliance known as "the Quad," to become the next President of the United States. Fearing that boiling resentment over both inequality and faded opportunity will imperil their tightly controlled surveillance state, the Quad has turned to Landon as the kinder, more reasonable façade they need to maintain a grip on power.

There's just one problem none of them knows Landon himself is...