The story follows a young researcher visiting a remote African country, the Republic of Gurundia, to investigate the work of a mysterious, eccentric scientist named (though in the Donda context, it focuses on Professor Donda ).

The fictional setting used to contrast "primitive" surroundings with high-level theoretical physics.

"Prawo Dondy" (Donda's Law) is a classic 1974 radio play (słuchowisko) by Stanisław Lem, later adapted into a short story in the collection Maska . It is a satirical "science-fiction of the absurd" that explores the intersection of information theory and physical reality.