He makes friends among the ordinary people that lead the life of privation and misery, while twice daily everyone is overcome by sudden an unexplained bouts of ecstatic enthusiasm, proclaiming their total allegiance and undying gratitude to the country's hidden rulers, known as the "Unknown Fathers" (in the censored versions "Fire-bearing Creators"), who are said to have the best interests of the people at heart, serving as bulwark against threats foreign and domestic, mainly from the so called "degens" (degenerates), the uncompromising enemies of the people, the terrorists who sometimes blow up the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) towers strewn around the country.