In Ancient Rome, one hundred years before Julius Caesar, a populist politician comes to power and attempts to enact a revolutionary program of wealth redistribution through land reform, only to be forced to resort to extraordinary measures to make his country great again. Written in iambic pentameter, The Promised Land is the unbelievable true story of the first government shutdown in history and a funny, poignant and scarily relevant look at how a republic breaks down in a society kinda-sorta-like our own.