“Aren’t you illiterate?”

11701 reeled back in pain as a rock fell from the ceiling, hitting her square in the head.

When it is time to go on leave, a young woman is given the opportunity to escape from her fourteen-hour seven-day work week for a whole two days. With all this free time at hand, her plan is to do nothing but party and attempt to retake the state placement test. A test that determines a person’s occupation and worth within a totalitarian state. Success for her means breaking free from the shackles of poverty. Even if she can neither read nor write, she is determined to see it through, no matter the cost.

What will she have to sacrifice in pursuit of a better life? What are the nightmares that continue to plague her? What is the truth of this world? Riches beyond her wildest dreams await her in this alternate-history sci-fi comedy. She is 11701 of the Rénlèi Republic, with aspirations of being something more.