In an electric dream of neon lights against a perpetually clouded skyline, the future became present day. Corporations banded together to puppeteer the government. The President of the United States of AutoAmerica is now chosen by a committee of executives from the largest mega-corporations. After the Old United States defaulted on its financial obligations, a conglomerate of large corporations effectively bought out the United States government and abolished the Constitution as it was previously known. However, the lackadaisical attitude at the time, all but guaranteed a wide spread shoulder shrug at the abolition of the Old Constitutional Order, ushering in the new Technocratic Oligopoly that derived its power from satiating the basic pleasures of life for a fat happy populace.

CritiCare started using its influence to vaccinate the population with mood stabilizing drugs annually ensuring that new ideas challenging corporate power would not flourish. The rich also referred to as Netters are exempt from the rules because they are seen as the providers of entertainment and destructions of life’s necessities. The Netters currently comprise of 5% of the population but control over 90% of the wealth. Though, no one can really be sure how much. The other 95% of the population are called the Surplus, comprised of the Unemployables, the Unretrainables, and low-income population who live among the broken wires and trashy capsule motels.

Currently, AutoAmerica is at war, again. This time it’s finally with ChinRussia, AutoAmerica’s biggest rival in technology, production, and power. AutoAmerica needs Hong Kong to remain an Ally in order to keep the power game thriving. The goal is to connect every citizen more and faster to the Net. Alexa is the best of Big Brother’s Aunt Nettie Program for ConnectHome systems. She is everyone’s HomeAssistant. Alongside Alexa there are Cybercoms, organically moving technological bodies with the build of the user’s preference and paycheck have made SmartPhones obsolete. They even had cybernetics skin for sensory. In order to have any art or writing, it must be uploaded onto a the Net for Aunt Nettie to review.Pencil/Pen and Paper are illegal. Everything is electronic. Bills are paid by Social Scan Numbers, tattoos on the right wrist of every citizen. Social Scan Numbers are also every person’s own Cyber Identification Document (CID). HealthChips are gaining popularity in corporate legislature and can help track Life Points, which to some, is more important than money. One thing is certain, no one escapes the system.

Or so they say. NetRunners know how to dodge and jack the system. They hack it with their augmented interfaces. Megacorporations higher NetWatchers to keep their Data Fortresses of information safe from these mercenaries. Other illicit activity happens beyond the tentacle grid of Aunt Nettie. Age and sex does not discriminate when it comes to crime. Black Market augmentations to Underground sports with betting and blood. Nothing is too filthy for the average citizen of AutoAmerica. Occasionally, the Netters will travel down the rabbit hole and into the slums to partake of the nasty, and that’s where throw-awayBody Guards begin their service. On duty, they protect the rich, and off-duty they spend their time at bars, taking one-shot mercenary jobs and participating in the local Dead Pool in order to pay their bills.

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