Jennifer Government (Max Barry)

This is an over-the-top cautionary tale of capitalizm (yes, that's how it's spelled here) gone mad. With few exceptions, most of the world has chosen to do away with practically every function of government, privatizing education, police, and so on. People are so identified with their corporate lives they take it as their last name: John Nike, for instance. Nothing is more important than corporate profits, and if a few teenagers need to be killed in order to increase sneaker sales, well, teenagers die every day for much worse reasons, so it's not a big deal. but Jennifer Government, one of the small number of people representing law and order, takes exception to that, and tries to fight against the worst corporate offenses. The characters are fairly two-dimensional, the plot at times unconvincing, but the story is entertaining enough to support its message, and I enjoyed finding out what would happen next.