The Potemkin Village Idiot

The Potemkin Village Idiot

Exit Management

Dispatches from the End of the Line

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Tom Jones
Jun 06, 2025
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Miles Plastic’s office sat inside the stacked concrete of The Division of Social Affairs, the most imposing building in what was left of the Government Quarter. That made sense; the DSA was the core of the state, a vast, labyrinthine sprawl that had more throughput than half the other Government Divisions combined. The building was a tessellated hulk of…

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