Ray Dussette: Why would you build a self destruct on this space station?
Jake Lawson: In case this space station fell back to earth.
Jake Lawson: Can't spend the money if there's no planet left
Duncan Taylor: We'll be saving all the best bits of the planet.
Jake Lawson: I worked on this day in and day out week after week for years, what did they do? They turned it into a gun.
President Andrew Palma: It's genocide.
Leonard Dekkom: You call it genocide... I call it "pre-emptive strike".
Leonard Dekkom: How did you do that?
President Andrew Palma: Because I'm the goddamn President of the United States.
Answer: It's set in an alternate universe, about ten to twenty years in the future.