As far as locations go, Angel City is based off of the City of Los Angeles, Valle Dorado is San Francisco/Bay Area, and Los Vascos is San Diego.  These three cities are in the State of California.  I wanted to have fictional locations so nobody will be required to know the actual geographies of these cities.  However, I will keep national capitols the same as in real life, so Washington D.C. is the national capitol of the US, London is the capitol of the UK, Beijing is the capitol of China, etc.