It's not my setting.
Here's the Wikipedia entry
And TVtropes
Tvtropes sums it up as thus
"Imagine a world designed by Kafka, Stalin, Orwell, Huxley, Sartre, and the Marx Brothers... "
I'll start after a decent number of people sign up.
@V Iv'e got some travel plans, so I'll want to talk to my Co-narrator when they volunteer to pick a good start date.