Wasn't it the mice?
No. the mice were behind the creation of the great “computer”, but the actual government was run by a guy, well, I don’t want this to be a spoiler.
But he was at a place they visited where it was raining pretty hard.
BTW, I have the whole series on a thumb drive, all narated by the author. And I have a 3 hour daily commute...
Don't you mean "hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings"?