Neo-Tokyo

Neo-Tokyo is the main setting of the cyberpunk novelettes "Firescate," "Gender Virus" and "The Playhouse". Located in an unspecified multi-cultural micro-nation, it is a crowded, dystopian megalopolis of the type envisioned in William Gibson's Sprawl Triology or Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Teetering on the verge of physical and economic collapse, it is home to a teeming population of vagrants, freebasers and petty criminals, many of whom are suffering from the so-called Transgender Virus. Political power is held by a number of media conglomerates, most notably TVC and its information division TNN, which keeps the general population under control with propaganda disguised as cheap entertainment and reality programming. The situation has been exacerbated by a months-long water shortage which has deprived over half the city of the most basic necessities for life. This drought may or may not actually exist, due to the constant stream of misinformation spewing from the various news outlets. Murder, suicide and starvation are so common as to be considered the norm at street level.