The book, like the Grinch's soul, appears to be an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable. And really, they're not even thematically appropriate bad guys: Space British Empire vs Space Russian Empire would be more traditional, but he's probably another Putin admirer. (And, come to think of it, the Space Russians would actually be strong opponents: like any proper Fascist, he prefers to imagine enemies that are somehow both very dangerous but also weak and incompetent, because once the Hero is released from the Shackles of Bureaucracy or whatever, he must be seen to utterly crush the Enemy: having the Enemy actually give as good as he gets is inconceivable.)