What if the Axis Powers had won World War II? This alternate history is the setting for The Man in the High Castle, in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan have occupied the east and west coasts (respectively) of the former United States, leaving an unoccupied zone between them. The societies each regime creates are harshly racist. The Japanese, whom we spend the most time with, institute a society in which they, of course, are on top, only slightly ahead of the Aryans; Americans are tolerated, but rarely trusted with important positions; Chinese people are discriminated against; Jews are arbitrarily imprisoned; and black people are enslaved.
