Prosperous Ukrainian farmer Mykola, Russian engineer Ivan Dyatlov and many other inhabitants of the Earth fall into slavery to advanced aliens from the Commonwealth. The book is not about space and cosmorubilov, not about psions and other benders, and not even about knowledge bases and neural networks, but about life in a distant Commonwealth, as the main characters of the book see it from their place. Slippers, boots and sneakers, bast shoes and sneakers are welcome, although the author does not care about them and those who throw them.