Farafa (also faralá) is a drug that serves as currency in the redoubt where money stopped meaning anything. It is used to pay, to collect and to calm.
The programmers of Willy Vision live plugged in and addicted to it, and that addiction finances their augury: the psychic antenna of the A.K. Boys works because someone keeps it drugged. Farafa circulates through the lower floors of Kreider’s hardhold as money once did, sustaining loyalties that last as long as the dose.
Madman is a famous addict; the leaked coordinates came from his office.