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The Syndic
Author: Cyril M. Kornbluth
Published: 1953

The government of North America has been reduced to bands of sea pirates operating out of Ireland. For the past century the eastern half of what had been the United States has been controlled by the Syndicate (now shortened to "Syndic") --complete with Sicilian names, call girls, and protection shakedowns. […]

(J. Neil Schulman)