"My mother believes in the greater good above all other things," she says. "That selfishness is the cause of all problems in the world, and only by renouncing the self and living for the community can a person be happy. 'Each of us has a moral duty to increase the common joy, and ease the common pain. Alone, we are nothing, mere engines of self-interest. Together, we are the Family, and through unity, we transcend the self.'"

She does a good impression of her mother's detached, soothing psychiatrist voice. Little speeches broadcast every day, all over the city.

"I'm supposed to calculate the greater good for all of humanity, without sentimentality or bias of any kind."