The year is 2184.
In "The Thought Criminal" the protagonist is an above average intelligence,(you know the IQ level of everyone that thinks they are smart ;)) out of work devops engineer, that post politically incorrect thought crimes on the internet but alludes imprisonment by having access to an underground dark hacker internet site. It turns out that the dark hacker internet site is and is runned my artificial intelligence (based on drumpf the twitter bot that mocked donald trump). the dark web assumes the identity of donald trump. It turns out that Donald Trump has survived in a way that the Egyptian feros and hitler tired for but failed. As one of an unknown number of patriotic hacker, identity thieves, perverts, gangsters, trolls, the politically incorrect, government spies, and corporate spies and thought criminals our hero has slipped up. He comments on the internet were deemed racist and his bank accounts become locked. His car won't start. His boss fires him. His children and mocked and ridiculed for the sake of cruelty. He ends up in an underground slum in san francisco. living in a camp were brutal criminal games rule. one prison gang is descended from the ISIS movement for 2016.
He makes his living posting mobile device applications and games on the dark web and on the white hat web when he can get away with it.