R A Lafferty posits several distinct controlling groups in Fourth Mansions (1969) and again in About a Secret Crocodile (August 1970 Galaxy), while in Diana Wynne Jones's Archer's Goon (1984) the various aspects of a UK town's operation ??? the Arts, banking (see Money), Crime and Punishment, sewers and other utilities, Transportation, and so on ??? are each secretly farmed by a different memb