A fluidity with regards to rank and social status. Raiders and military personal declaring themselves kings, etc. A transformation and rethinking of cultural norms, lower population densities, areas, where folks preserve elements and institutions of a state level society, re-used building structures, transformation of built space
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Surely there will be people trying to recover the knowledge and science of the past and ways of mantaining surviving infrastructures (paved roads and aqueducts for example), see FALL AND REBIRTH 7 at Atomic Rockets for some ideas.
There could be foreign peoples taking advantage of the fall of the empire to conquer new territories (Goths, Ostrogoths, etc.) and the remnants of civilization forced to sign treaties with them for protection.