(Humor/satire:) The Bureau of Paperwork Reduction should be the answer to Earth's environmental crisis. But is it? Bureau director Ashleigh Zimmerman and her mysterious advisers seem to be taking Earth's environment in all kinds of wrong directions. This delights the Centaurians, a race of aliens who enjoy what we call pollution, and have targeted Earth for immediate invasion and colonization.

When Ashleigh decides to run for political office, the Federal Bureau of Alternate Reality - created by bureaucratic error, and now the only government agency that actually does its job - must scramble to find a candidate willing to oppose her ...