The notion that anyone could become world leader might seem the ultimate democracy, but what with it being a 7 billion to one likelihood and that otherwise the majority of people are tied by oaths of fealty to lives of indentured servitude makes it a good old dystopia.
Chuck in telepathy, androids, distorted reality and a crackpot messianic figure and PKD's first novel contains most of the elements he'd develop through his career. 4⭐