 Subsequent collected editions have been typically published under DC's more specialized imprint, Vertigo.The story depicts a dystopian and post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world.The white supremacist, neo-fascist, outwardly Christofascistic, and homophobic fictional "Norsefire" political party has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps, and now rules the country as a police state.