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   Only known as "The City" by many, it's a large dystopian megalopolis divided by 26 districts, each one being assigned a letter of the alphabet, except for Z, which is reserved for the train tracks surrounding it. Each district is divided in two forms of sectors: nests, and backstreets. There's also the existence of Wings, which are the main company keeping the district as a whole afloat. These usually do so with the help of a singularity.

   1. At a certain point in history, the Head established that only humans are permitted to live in the confines of the City, and that the existence of non-humans within it is a taboo. Sapient beings that aren't human are driven out of the City and into the Outskirts, and creating any form of non-human sapient life became a taboo—marking the beginning of the City's "age of humanity". Notably, the taboo does not include non-sapient monsters, such as the Whales of the Great Lake or the Trash Crabs of District 21, and monstrous creatures of human origin, such as Distortions, Abnormalities, or Bloodfiends. Whether a being's existence effectively breaks a taboo is ultimately up to the Head, as can be seen by the Head being responsible for patenting the liquid and method that allows the creation of Sweepers.
   2. The Artificial Intelligence Ethics Amendment, which establishes a series of City-wide taboos against the creation of machines that resembled humans, outlawing the creation of both mechanical copies of a human body and machines with an intelligence comparable to that of humans. It appears that similarly to other taboos of the City, undoing the breaking of such a taboo is typically of greater importance than the capture of the one who broke the taboo; in the case of the creation of an unauthorized sapient AI finding a means of becoming human, the Head would no longer consider their existence as the breaking of a taboo.
   3. The Head has set a number of restrictions on the creation and distribution of firearms, including limits on the Workshops that produce them. Among some of them, guns cannot completely penetrate buildings, and they must ALWAYS produce noise. Some of these things contribute to firearms and especially bullets being quite expensive in The City.
   4. Furthermore, the Head released a treaty that established a taboo against the COMPLETE resurrection of a human being, although some forms of revival seem to be permitted, such as cloning. That being said, although it's allowed two copies of the same person to exist in the City, they cannot exist for any longer than seven days according to A Corp's time scale.

   Phenomena, Syndicates and anything that could prove dangerous to the public safety is categorized based on the Association's rating system. These categories are as follows in ascending order:

   • Urban Myth
   • Urban Legend
   • Urban Plague
   • Urban Nightmare
   • Star of the City
   • Impuritas Civitatis

   Categorization is based on how much people are willing to pay to eliminate the threat. The body count of victims have previously also factored into the grading. Threats that prove themselves to be severe enough to defy even the Star of the City categorization can be labeled as an Impurity (Impuritas Civitatis) and will be handled directly by The Head. Impurities can only be labeled by the latter and handling them is no longer within the authority of the Hana Association.

   Singularities are a Wing's unique technology, and the main source of what keeps the Wing afloat. That being said, it's not uncommon for a Wing to use two singularities for a singular purpose. The details of a Wing's Singularity are a closely guarded secret, but its products (such as L Corp.'s Enkephalin or H Corp.'s Boluses) and side effects (such as T Corp.'s color desaturation) tend to be widespread throughout the District and play a major role in defining its culture. While Singularities' true abilities are usually incredibly powerful, a Wing must convert them into a marketable product in order to make a profit. Singularities are the primary source of income for the Wings to sustain themselves in the harsh environment of the City, meaning creating new products from the same Singularity is incredibly important. In addition, Wings must be careful during the development process of new Singularities, to prevent information leaks and intellectual theft before a patent is received.

   If a Wing collapses, the patents on its Singularity expire and any individual or group who discovers how to utilize the technology may do so. In addition, the technology's status as a Singularity is lost. A number of technologies of the City were previously considered Singularities in the past, such as augmentation tattoos. Singularities, while technological marvels, are not all they're made out to be. In one way or another, every Singularity fundamentally requires human suffering in order to function, and no Wing can claim to have their hands clean of the blood of its citizens.

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