The circumstances of the novel is a thinly-veiled allusion on the Communist regime in Poland : the aliens claim that their invasion is in fact in defense of the Earth against other " bad " aliens; at the first glance the society as a whole is content : all goods are fairly distributed, the economy is stable, etc ., if one disregards certain restrictions imposed by the aliens : certain territories are off limits for humans, research in ants is forbidden, development of the technology is banned, etc . Human leaders are convinced that aliens " know better ", that an external point of view was necessary to bring things in order.
