[GonzoGOP]

Once it crashes, govts will no longer have the funds to maintain order. The best bet is the states, but the national govt will be impotent. It will be fairly anarchic, but way worse in the major city areas. They will leave the ruralies to fend for themselves while they try to contain the cities.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and it didn't fall in a day either. It only takes a company of soldiers backed by some militia to "Maintain Order". It takes a lot more than that to maintain a highway and electrical grid. When the USSR collapsed order was maintained, but the power system failed and it was impossible to travel from town to town. The collapse of the USSR and especially Yugoslavia (with the three way ethnic tensions similar to the US) are probably the examples to look at. Freedom is the first thing to go, order is the last. It turns out despotism is cheap and doesn't require a whole lot of brain power.

[Free Vulcan]

Russia may be the closest analogy, but they didn’t have near the gang issues and people were used to living with next to nothing and the population centers were nothing like what we have today. This is going to be a whole different rodeo.