That said, not every person in Freedom State is horrible, not even every white person. There’s a politically liberal 85-year-old who tries to help Keita. And there’s the hapless immigration minister, Calder, whose party has come to power as a result of the “Deport the Illegals” movement, but whose heart really isn’t in the job. When the denouement finally arrives and the prime minister explains his dastardly plan, it is Calder who provides the obligatory response: “It will never work,” he says. The reader is inclined to agree.