Thanks for the story-link. I loved the thought of the maps. :) The politics was perhaps intended as a reply of sorts (a pessimistic sort!) to Kipling's determinedly anti-anarchist bee-and-wasp story, "The Mother-Hive" (http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1976/).