From the answers being posted here, the local fifedoms have survived
the bureaucratic restructuring.
Here on the North Coast, the Border Patrol do not really have a border
they can patrol as they do in the West and Southwest, so they have to
find something else for them to do.
Although there was an article in the newspaper earlier this week that
told of Homeland Security money being spent to purchase three speedboats
for Lake Erie patrols. I guess they need to work on their tans...