In this case the author posits a particularly sudden economic breakdown/crash, hardly an unlikely possibility, and the real difficulties come to pass as the fed.gov tries to regain/restore control after self-governance on a local order is more or less restored.
The screenplay Pulling Throughis on line and is worth consideration, and a hard copy version can probably be arranged; the author is a fairly common poster on the FALFiles webboard.
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