Ronald McDystopia (Swiss Family Robitussin)

One day when I was getting my glasses fixed at Walmart Vision Center, I looked at the store without them and I realised that I couldn't see where it ended in two directions. Now this is partially because I'm near-sighted and will eventually become all but blind, but it is also because the place is so darn big. Now it got me thinking "what if Walmart went on forever, what if they put apartment buildings in them, people would never have to leave." So I began to envision a world dominated entirely by Walmart.

Imagine a world where Walmart is allowed to ignore any rules banning monopolies, and then it spreads its corporation and its interests until it controls much of the world. The Walmarts themselves gain built in apartments, restaurants, small factories, and eventually become largely self-sufficient indoor communities, many of which grow so large that they connect onto other nearby Walmarts, forming enormous cities. After time they take on a sort of surreal quality, growing so large that they need their own small police forces and militias to maintain order. Eventually all other business are replaced by Walmart and they are able to raise prices without any sort of limit because they are the only show in town.

This causes most of the world to sink below the poverty line. Several rebel groups, thinking that the management of Walmart is the root of their problems, assault the main headquarters and slay the board of directors, along with everyone else involved in the management of Walmart.

This causes the utter collapse of civilized society, but because much of the processes by which Walmart runs is automated and autonomous, the essential fall of civilization seems to barely effect them at all. Eventually the colossal miles-wide Walmarts are one of the last bastions of civilization. They are runs by machines and staffed by robots. The aisles are inhabited by scavengers and bandits. Some people evolve to live among the ceiling supports, others take to the vast rooftop expanses, still others follow the way of the Smiling One. Most simply wander the aisles searching for what they need to survive.

I found this by Googling "anarchism post-apocalypse" and thought it was pretty clever and cool. Worth a re-post. I fixed up some of the spelling errors but otherwise it's unchanged. Evidently it was written by Lord of the Ninth, who resides in the denatured-yet-named-after-nature suburb of Malsheem, Nessus in the Nine Hells of Baator.
Source = http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=92543&page=1&pp=30
Apparently some online group of cyber-Dungeons & Dragoners.
It's a good story idea and I'm sure we'll be seeing it as a feature film soon starring the ghost of Heath Ledger, some actress with 3 names in her name, and featuring a throbbing soundtrack by the latest overloud drums compressed guitar angsty neo nu metal supergroups. No, I'm in a bad mood, being sarcastic, if handled right it could be a cool thing. Hell, Cormac McCarthy's The Road became an Opah Wimfrey book pick. Post-apocalyptic is the new pirates. The new cool.
I avoided Walmart for many a year, may have even been a decade or coon's age, but went recently and it wasn't so bad. Not as evil as leftists make it out to be. Sure, evil, but what isn't evil? Walmart has a former Sierra Club President working for them, and they are going to start selling electric cars. They aren't 100% evil, only 99%. I saved some money and got some 1/2way decent camping stuff. There was a pellet pistol gun on sale for 4 dollars that I was going to get but it was locked up and it's sometimes a nightmare finding an employee to help. But I could go another decade without going there. I do like the Ronald McDonald statue sitting on a bench inside the store; if you juxtaposed RM with the postapocalyptic scenario by Lord of the Ninth it's a rather surreal, compelling mental image of ol' RM lounging frozen on a bench with a shit-eating grin in a dystopic Walmart scavenged horrific wasteland. Love it.

Er, I'm lovin' it.