How does art, including movies, music, and fashion, influence the culture, and how can the power of the state be used to ensure that art is a positive and not a negative influence on the culture? In this novel, Thornton Nash, the Propaganda Minister of the newly independent country of Solutria, consults with the best minds in the country to devise a plan to make the population of Solutria as refined as possible. But, not content to rely on ideology,...