A story about a future world centuries after governments have been toppled world-wide. What passes for organization is this anarchist collective called 'The Agency'. Agents are sent to investigate rumors that a state still exists, a final hold-out of the hierarchical governments of centuries ago. They have been sent to destroy it.

4/5 stars. I was not aware that PKD was this outright political. I consider this now one of my favorite left-ish political sci-fi along with 'The Dispossessed' by Le Guin. The politics of nation-states as well as the use of espionage reminds me of the novel 'Europe in Autumn' by Dave Hutchinson.