The scene is set in the year 2027 while the second Civil War is
tearing through the entire world.
Emphasized in the film V for
Vendetta, the United States had an epidemic of the “St. Mary’s
Virus” and now has touched down in Europe.
The political power in the United Kingdom is now declared as the
“Norsefire”. This imagined
dictatorship’s Leader, alias the Head, is Chancellor Adam Sutler. Sutler is an advocate of racism and
totalitarianism; as the Chancellor, he believes civil liberties are unnecessary
and threatening to society.
