Amazon Prime is launching a brand new show titled The Man in the High Castle that is based on a book by the same name written by Philip K. Dick back in the early 1960’s. The show and novel portray a world in which the Allies were defeated in the Second World War and the Axis were victorious. In this new world, America is occupied by the Third Reich on the East Coast and Midwest and the Empire of Japan occupies the West Coast, with a neutral zone that is a buffer area between the two nations.

America twenty years after the end of the war is presented (at least in the first two episodes that have been released) as being in a bizarre total war environment with Times Square announcing production figures and the amount of war material produced but also as being very calm and...