Conglomerate 21

The year is 2097. Seventy years have slipped away since the Great Collapse of the United States of America and since the desperate conglomerates—remnants of corporate America—fled with their employees into colossal survival bases behind electrified fences and a brutal corporate police force. They left the rest of society to find its way through the ensuing chaos, starvation, and violence. But seventy years of corporate government have now turned the survival bases into a network of dystopian, totalitarian regimes. Meanwhile, outside the conglomerate fences, a revolutionary form of capitalism that sprouted after the Collapse has turned rural America into a virtual utopia. Unfortunately, the people in the conglomerates don’t know this. The internal propaganda apparatus keeps them in the dark.
Into this byzantine setting step Richard Jordan, an up-and-coming conglomerate executive, and Emma Callister, a dairyman’s daughter from the forbidden farm zone, whose chance meeting sets in motion a chain of events that culminates in the attempted overthrow of not just their own conglomerate 21 but the whole conglomerate system. Conglomerate 21 is both a compelling page-turner and a complex, visionary tale of power, clashing value systems, and, ultimately, liberty. It is a hopeful look at what America could be—and a frightening vision of what it will be if we don’t challenge the assumptions that drive our out-of-control economy.