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Chapter 8: The Rise of the Truck Lords

The Kingdom of Palm Beachonia

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Cecil Touchon
Jun 21, 2025
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Chapter 8: The Rise of the Truck Lords

It is an iron law of history that when governments collapse, flags fade, and currencies turn to mulch, power reverts to the most basic tools available:

  • Force.

  • Fear.

  • And vehicles large enough to drive over your neighbor's dreams.

In Palm Beachonia, the vacuum left by a king too busy polishing his golden golf tees was filled not by thoughtful revolutionaries, nor by desperate moderates, but by monster trucks.

Monster trucks became governance.
Monster trucks became law.
Monster trucks became gods.

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