" As a result, Hobyo is as good an example as any of a “feral city.” It’s a term that is used in military circles to describe regions that have no effective government but sustain an internationally networked criminal economy. Feral cities are the ragged end of spaces of exception: they are not the product of governments or ideologies but show what happens when such structures fall away. "

― Alastair Bonnett , Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies