In Light City, the all-powerful State permeates everything. No one from outside understands their way. This is why there are no visitors to Light City. Travel is forbidden. Happiness is maintained throughout by acceptance. Individuality is outlawed and original thought is a crime. Confused? You will be.

Eighth Doctor

 It's a nightmare. The State controls its citizens' lives and whereas conformity is rewarded any form of deviancy from the accepted normality is punished by offenders having their personalities, memories and attitudes totally destroyed and then rebuilt. Thus ensuring that offenders will never know what they have done - all to ensure the equilibrium of the State is maintained.

 Questions are the ultimate sin and all good members of the proletarian will fall in line, happy to embrace their place and enjoy their State licensed broadcast hours of infotainment in reward. In a world such as this, can anyone be sure of who they really are? Especially when no one is allowed to have a name – just a title!

 The truth is more than we imagine. In this totalitarian regime its citizens are too blind to see the truth that they are slaves to the will of the State. The State is so supreme that its population believe themselves free as they willingly accept conformity and obedience.

 But is there a revolution brewing in Light City? Has someone let the truth out of its cage? Are they licensed? Are they censored? Maybe a strange adventurer and his redoubtable companions have something to do with it or are they too caught up in a complex society where asking questions is strictly forbidden? All these questions being asked as if you have a right to answers.

India Fisher

 Every so often a Revolution is required. Has everyone gone completely mad? Even ideas have a natural history. Any memory is meaningless without context. The sound of a child's humming top, for instance...

 But despite how hard this society works to maintain a status quo it seems it is susceptible to the introduction of an outside stimulus and can become affected by a single idea that is spread throughout its population. The apparent arrival of The Doctor and his companions Charley and C'rizz are already starting to unravel this totalitarian regime.

 A nurse sudden turns on her husband when he inadvertently asks a simple question of her. As he is taken away, her acceptance of the personality revision which will come to her too is so total that she believes it is the only way that she will gain happiness again away from the perverse ideas of contravention her husband has influenced her with.

 With the people either as nameless subjects or with titles that reflect their role in society such as the Editor and the Conscience. But the Conscience's role is not to think but just to offer guidance and ensure obedience. But it seems even he has become effected by the idea that existence in Light City is harshly limited by the unfair State and revolution is in the air.

 As for the Editor it is a downward spiral as the very idea of revolution forces leads him down a path of obsession which he believes will protect the State he loves. However, his course of action changes him irrevocably and in doing so the reality around him changes and he who was one of the State's greatest protectors paradoxically becomes its greatest threat as he fanatically tries to destroy the group who are instigating the revolution.

 The irony is that the creating force that shaped the State is the force that will also finally destroy it.