The book is inspired by my personal experience of a cruelly prejudiced and harshly oppressive regime in my country. I got the picture of this big bully lording over a whole nation and imposing not the tried and tested laws but his own hate laws. The protagonist, Jambino, is meant also to portray the typical young ones even of today, who are not told but think they know it all. He learns the most crucial lessons the very hard way at the expense of a great loss of lives. In the end, it is understanding, tolerance, and compromise that bring peace. It might be a never-never story, but it has moral lessons that can apply to humans today.