Cocaine Wars & The Condor's Republic

In 2098, a European official burned three hundred kilos of cocaine in a public square and wrote a polite letter explaining why.

The fleet arrived eleven weeks later.

The seas have risen. Europe is a scatter of flooded remnants, living on salvage and forgetting itself on imports. South America — spared by geography, enriched by catastrophe — is now the Republic of the Condor: Bogotá writes the speeches, Cusco blesses them, Asunción pays for both. Its chief export is a hyper-refined cocaine called Cóndor Blanca. Its chief market is a continent too poor to say no...