Retrogenesis 1

In the aftermath of catastrophic global financial collapse, which all but
destroyed even the most advanced countries, two scientists discover an
anomaly which could, in the right hands, help save mankind but in the
wrong hands destroy it.
The scientists intend to build a new society, populated with carefully
selected like minded specialists, offering them freedom and a completely
new way of life.
The enormous power of their discovery was uncovered by a brutal
emergent Super Power and a megalomaniac renegade politician who, for
personal reasons, wanted the invention for himself and would use any
means to get it.