No one is. Property belongs the corporations even formerly public property. It seems that at some point the world s economy collapsed, and the largest corporations around the world had to bail the federal governments out of the hole. In exchange, the governments had to sell buildings, property, and parks. Rather than being homeowners, Tom and Sara have free housing provided by their corporations which in many respects operate as cooperatives where the employees together share the expenses for just about everything housing, education, transportation, public safety regardless of how geographically distributed the employees are.
Public safety is an expense that most corporations together bear the price.
The corporations sub-contract to local governments to enforce speeding limits, sweep the streets, clean the litter. Thus, when a police officer is not fighting crime she has a broom in her hand. When Tom and Sara go to work, they take their children with them. Tom and Sara s older child Kimberly is a Sophomore in high school. Kimberly is taking college prepatory courses, which include two years of secondary language.