High-tech crime syndicates utilize advances in human cloning technology to clone popular Hollywood celebrities and history's most attractive figures to work as high-class escorts to the world's super-rich. In response the government establishes a federal police known as DNA Enforcement to hunt down and terminate the illegally created clones. The public views the clones as hapless victims of science and refer in contempt and insult to the DNA enforcement officers as 'Clone Poppers.'