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In [[The Future]], [[Alternate History]] or simply somewhere apart from historical location, there exists a society where virtually everything is privately owned. From [[Law Enforcement, Inc.|the police]] to the fire department to the national park service, sometimes even to the military and courts, nearly everything is privately owned in this society. Depending on the views of the author on capitalism, this may be presented in a variety of lights, most often an [[Useful Notes/Objectivism|Objectivist]]/classical liberal/market anarchist [[Straw Utopia]] or a communist/socialist/progressive liberal/social anarchist [[Straw Dystopia]].
A common trope in [[Cyberpunk]] fiction in general, given all the [[Mega Corp|Mega Corps]] in charge of everything in many such settings. However, [[Cyberpunk]]'s general pessimism (and, more frequently than not, anti-market political preferences) lead to a lot of confusion where the State and [[Mega Corp]] are intertwined. In general, if a [[Privately
[[One Nation Under Copyright]] is a subtrope. May be a [[NGO Superpower]].
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