Earth: Geography

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"Home -- the final frontier"
- Grafitti found on a Vashin spaceport

The world of Earth has, thanks to the population before the Hunger Wars and the robots working without supervision while humanity cowered in bomb shelters after the War of a Hundred Suns, is a giant, run down metropolis. It makes Mexico City look like the pinacle of city planning and the suburb a wonderful invention. Take one world sized, mostly abandoned city, add Corporation Holdings right out of the movie Metropolis that are kept in one piece, a touch of piccasso, large gaps of radioactive wastes and some yeast and you have the modern world.

It's not a pretty picture, but then neither are its inhabitants. Crime would run rampant through the streets except that theres no real law on them, so crime isn't so much running as wandering along doingwhat it pleases. Thje Corps aren't powerful enough to control the whole world, so large areas have become Quiet Zones, places where anyone can hide and Corps tread warily in. Many large gangs run the inner Zones, with the other areas being left alone by both Gangs and Corps for the most part.

THE QUIET ZONE

The current Zone the pcs are in is in midwest US, plains areas. South is nuclear wastes, north lots of empty cities, west is the Microsft Corps Main Holdings and east has a scattering of other holdings and more nuclear fun. This is rather imprecise since a) The Corps don't make maps of the world available to people and b) The GM lacks a good map generator of some kind.

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