Why wouldn't the security people just take it then? in a time like that, clearly asking for help is a sign of weakness...going to someone stronger and begging to keep you in power? doesn't make sense.. in chaos people will _take_.

And then they can acquire more land and spread out. And then they can let people onto their land and dictate laws about it. And then we're back to feudalism. Fun.

Ah. I should start a security business, then. It will remove the "finding the stuff" step from the "taking stuff by force" process.