The World

North America

Already reeling from the VITAS plague, the Awakening of magic, and the appearance of metahumans, North America splintered August 17, 2017 when—responding to the United States' escalation of its conflict with Sovereign American Indian Movement into a campaign of outright extinction—Howling Coyote initiated the Great Ghost Dance at Native American communities across the continent. Freak weather and uncanny disturbances assaulted the US military effort, with the havoc reaching its height with the eruption of Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Large portions of the United States and Canada were carved out to form the Native American Nations (NANs).

Already weakened, the United States and Canada were further destabilized with the Crash of '29, when an unprecedented virus swept the world's computer systems, crashing systems, wiping records, and destroying hardware. In need of a lifeline, they joined together into the United Canadian and American States in 2030. The alliance couldn't hold together, however, and the UCAS soon faced a rush of successions.

The United Canadian and American States

See the dedicated page for The Seattle Sprawl.

See the dedicated page for Chicago.

The Native American Nations

Denver

Denver was where the agreement establishing the North American Nations was signed, and has been thereafter governed under the joint administration of the signing parties: the UCAS, Aztlan, the Pueblo, the Sioux, and the Ute.

Central America

Aztlan

One of the Native American Nations created in the wake of the Great Ghost Dance, Aztlan covers all of Central America, between Rio Bravo and Nueces River and the Andes, including the former territory of Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama (excluding the Panama Canal Zone under the direct control of the Corporate Court). It also includes portions that used to belong to Venezuela and Columbia, as well as parts of the former US states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

Europe

Allied German States

The Allied German States (AGS, German: Allianz Deutscher Länder, ADL) is the loosely organized collection of Kingdoms, Duchies, and republics that were once the Fifth World country of the Federal Republic of Germany. These include: Baden and Palatinate, the Black Forest Troll Kingdom, Brandenburg, Franconia, the Free State of Bavaria, the Free State of Saxony, the Free State of Thuringia, the Free State of Westphalia, the Grand Duchy of West Rhine-Luxembourg, Greater Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau, the North German League, North Rhine-Ruhr, Wuerttemberg, the Free City of Berlin, the eleven enclave the Duchy of Pomorya, and the Saar-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone established to contain the damage caused by the meltdown of the Cattenom reactors in 2008.

The AGS is notable for having several great dragons, and a (relatively) large number of Night Ones and Giants.

The Middle East

East Anatolia

East Anatolia or East Turkey (also called the Ottoman Empire) is an insurgent-ruled state situated in the eastern portion of Anatolia and is ruled by Islamist extremists who are remnants of Alliance for Allah.

Asia

Chinese Splinter States

China is no longer a country, but a region occupied by dozens of splinter states all warring with each other. Four of the larger states (the Canton Confederation, the People's Republic of Henan, the Kingdom of Shaanxi, and the Republic of Sichuan) are vying to reunify China under their respective banners, while the other lesser states serve as political wildcards.

The Canton Confederation

The Canton Confederation is one of the four major splinter states resulting from the former People's Republic of China. Consisting of the former provinces of Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, as well as the city-state of Macao, the Confederation is the most economically powerful of the former Chinese states, but its weak-confederation system often leads to political infighting, resulting in an incoherent and sometimes self-contradicting foreign policy.

People's Republic of Henan

The People's Republic of Henan became the home of the remaining hardline communists following the breakup of the PRC. Governed by a Neo-Communist regime and hostile to corporations, it has attracted a number of anti-corporate policlubs and is believed to provide anti-corporate terrorists with covert support. Among the extremists that have found sanctuary in Henan and have training facilities are GreenWar and the Sons of Sauron.

Kingdom of Shaanxi

The Kingdom of Shaanxi is a monarchy comprising a large portion of north-central China, with a desert in the north and mountains through the central region forming a natural barrier with much of the rest of former China, but with the population concentrated in a subtropical zone to the south.

Republic of Sichuan

Sichuan is a militaristic, magocratic warlord state located in central China. While possessing a democratically-elected parliament, it is ruled by the Mage General Liang Hong, backed by the Eastern Great Dragon Lung.

It is a state in which the Awakened are favored over the non-magical. When a magician or adept takes a civil service entrance exams or promotion test, they are given bonus points. The un-Awakened are informally barred from holding higher ranking positions in the local government, with these reserved for magic users. The Ministers, Chiefs of Staff, and Secretaries of most of the major state ministries are either adepts or magicians. Likewise when it comes to the commanders of the major army divisions.

AAA Megacorporations

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Ares Macrotechnology

Headquarters: Detroit, UCAS

Core Industries: AresSpace, Ares Global Entertainment, Ares Arms, Knight Errant Security Services, and General Motors

Aztechnology

Headquarters: Tenochtitlan, Aztlan

Core Industries: food, consumer goods, and thaumaturgical products

Cross Applied Technologies

Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec

Core Industries: computers, electronics, multimedia products, biotech

Fuchi

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Core Industries: Matrix technology

Mitsuhama

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

Core Industries: computers and robotics

NeoNET

Headquarters: Boston, UCAS

Core Industries: Matrix infrastructure, software, electronics, biotech

Renraku

Headquarters: Chiba, Japan

Core Industries: memory storage and databases

Saeder-Krupp

Headquarters: Essen, Germany

Core Industries: heavy industry, nuclear energy, oil, chemistry, aerospace and telecommunications.

Shiawase

Headquarters: Osaka, Japan

Core Industries: power systems, biotech, environmental technology, business analysis

Wuxing

Headquarters: Hong Kong Free Enterprise Enclave

Core Industries: finance, heavy industry, shipping, automotive, consumer goods and services

Yamatetsu

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

Core Industries: Crashcart Medical Services, consumer products, naval technology

Non-Corporate / Non-Government Organizations

Green 4800

An eco-terrorist group operating out of the Seattle Sprawl.

System Identification Numbers (SINs)

People are identified by many identifiers in many systems, but the System Identification Number is the gold standard. Every SIN is tied to at least a name, a picture, and a fingerprint. While every SIN holder has been fingerprinted, many registrations include retinal scans, limited DNA profiles, and voice samples. Maintained by Global Systems Registries, the SIN is used by most governments and corporations to identify citizens and employees.

GSR provides for the vast majority of identification-check services throughout the system. With even a basic scanner, and a service contact, GSR can identify whether a particular subject's biometrics match a provided SIN. Authorized customizers, such as law enforcement agencies, can retrieve a SIN based on provided biometrics.

Many older SIN holders have a UV-reactive barcode tattoo on their wrist of their number, with younger citizens often relying solely on embedded short-range radio transmitters.