Thousands of planets and hundreds of intelligent races are part of the Confederation of the Conscious. And this Confederation would have lived on the whole happily if its government, which too literally implemented the idea of fighting bureaucracy, had not turned on the “green light” to all good (in theory) initiatives... The mechanism of state power began to work at a terrible speed. Laws were proposed and approved within an hour. The budget was bursting at the seams. Committees with the most incredible functions multiplied alarmingly. The Confederacy was rapidly falling into chaos. Only a few conscious people understood the horror of what was happening and eventually organized the Bureau of Sabotage, whose agents tried to slow down the monstrously spinning flywheel of power. Agents of the Bureau, which unites representatives of all planets and races, show incredible ingenuity, trying to act within the law, but the resistance of the authorities and society is so great that sometimes they have to cross these boundaries, and then everything is used, including bribery, blackmail and murder …