When he was thirty five, John Riley bought several acres in the northern Rocky Mountains and turned his back on civilization. In the beginning, John still needed to drive the forty miles to the nearest town, but as the years went by, he became more self-sufficient and eventually gave up even that last minor connection to humanity.
While John went about his daily routine, the rest of the world engaged in the intrigues and violence that humanity had practiced from the beginning.
One day, the mad plan of a mad scientist went too far and almost every fertile male in the world was wiped out. John didn't now anything of the cataclysm until he received a procession of visitors.
All of the arrivals were women. The apparent leader of the women told John what had happened and that since he was one of the few healthy males left, it was John's patriotic duty to replenish the earth with humans.
John wasn't so sure that was such a good idea and told them so. The women offered him riches and the most beautiful women in the world.
John thought about the offer and added a few conditions of his own. The leader of the women grudgingly accepted the conditions and that is how John the Hermit became the King of The United States.
While John went about his daily routine, the rest of the world engaged in the intrigues and violence that humanity had practiced from the beginning.
One day, the mad plan of a mad scientist went too far and almost every fertile male in the world was wiped out. John didn't now anything of the cataclysm until he received a procession of visitors.
All of the arrivals were women. The apparent leader of the women told John what had happened and that since he was one of the few healthy males left, it was John's patriotic duty to replenish the earth with humans.
John wasn't so sure that was such a good idea and told them so. The women offered him riches and the most beautiful women in the world.
John thought about the offer and added a few conditions of his own. The leader of the women grudgingly accepted the conditions and that is how John the Hermit became the King of The United States.
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