[rrrazdan]

Are you being serious? Even Germany after WWII hadnt fallen into such anarchy. The truth is even if the monetary structure fails en-masse(highly unlikely), society would find a way to function. People will work for food, cigarettes, coffee.

[DasIch]

Germany received a lot of help though. You cannot simply replicate that for the US.

[chopsueyar]

In Soviet Russia, it was called Blat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28term%29