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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.

United Canadian and American States

The United Canadian and American States, also referred to as the UCAS, is a federal republic in eastern North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the beginning of the Rocky Mountains. It is the successor state to both the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America. It shares land borders with Quebec, Algonkian-Manitou, Sioux, Pueblo, and the CAS. The state of Seattle on the West Coast of North America is enclaved in the Salish-Shidhe territory.

The country has 31 states, which have a level of local autonomy according to the system of federalism, and a special district, the Federal District of Columbia, encompassing the capital Washington DC. The state of Seattle is sometimes designated as the metroplex of Seattle, though it possesses all the attributes of a Union State. A UCAS citizen may be referred as an American or a Canadian, UCASer, or Canadian-American.

See also the dedicated pages for the Seattle Sprawl and Chicago.

Northeastern Metroplex Axis

A megalopolis that includes Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and the District of Columbia, collectively referred to as NEMA.

Detroit

Toronto

Confederation of American States

The Confederation of American States, abbreviated as the CAS, and sometimes referred to as the Confederated American States, is a republic in eastern North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the beginning of the Sierra Madre. It shares land borders with UCAS, Pueblo, Aztlán, and South Florida.

The country has 13 states, which have a level of local autonomy according to the system of federalism. A CAS citizen may be referred simply as an American, a Confederationist, or a CASer. While much of the country embraces the term Confederate, a minority of it, and many expatriates, consider it an insult, interpreting it as a reference to the moniker used in the American Civil War.

While marginalization of metahuman populations is common, the CAS has a reputation for the extremity of their subjugation, with the non-human portion of its prisoners being vastly higher than the already-common disproportion and prison labor being highly integrated into the national economy.

California Free State

The California Free State is a libertarian republic on the west coast of North America. California borders the Pacific Ocean the length of the Sierra Nevada, featuring a diverse landscape and Mediterranean climate. The CFS comprises only a portion of the former state of California, with the territory from San Diego south claimed by Aztlán, Los Angeles having succeeded, and San Francisco—while still formally part of the CFS—being in practice controlled by a coalition of Japanese megacorporations.

Free City of Los Angeles

Enclosed on land by the California Free State, The Free City of Los Angeles sprawls across what used to be the Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange counties, and additionally includes the western part of San Bernardino county. The free city is best known for its still-dominant position in the entertainment industry, ranging from film and TriD to simsense recordings and video games.

Republic of Québec

Tír Tairngire

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, Aztlán, the Pueblo, the Sioux, and the Ute.

Central America

Aztlán

One of the Native American Nations created in the wake of the Great Ghost Dance, Aztlán 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 territory that used to belong to Venezuela and Columbia, as well as portions of the former US states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

The country of Aztlán is inextricable from Aztechnology. The AAA megacorporation dominates politics with its Azatlán party, intermingling its corporate governance with the national government, while also being the primary provider of security and military services to the state. The nation and corporation are notorious for their use of blood magic.

Panama Canal Zone

South America

Amazonia

Europe

United Kingdom

Tír na nÓg

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 of 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.

Black Forest Troll Republic

The Black Forest Troll Republic is an Allied German State (ADL) and one of the Awakened Lands. After the secession of the Süddeutschen Bund (Southern German Federation) in 2038, an attempted pogrom of orks and trolls led to a resistance movement by King Berthold (suspected to be the dragon Kaltenstein) that established a constitutional monarchy within the Black Forest to shelter metahumans.

Italian Confederation

Scandinavian Union

Russian Republic

Black Sea City States

Middle East

Arabian Caliphate

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.

Secular Republic of Turkey

Israel

Palestine

Asia

Japanese Imperial State

Chinese Splinter States

China is no longer a country, but a region occupied by dozens of splinter states all warring with each other. The four largest states (the Canton Confederation, the People's Republic of Henan, the Kingdom of Shaanxi, and the Sichuan Dominion), which retained the former country's nuclear weapons, vye to reunify China under their respective banners, while the other lesser states serve as political wildcards.

Canton Confederation

Consisting of the former provinces of Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, as well as the city-state of Macao, the Canton Confederation is the most economically powerful of the former Chinese states, but its weak-confederation system prevents its federal government from exerting significant non-economic foreign influence. Bordering the South China Sea, the confederation is the Chinese Splinter most integrated into global commerce.

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, rumored to be home to training facilities for 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. The kingdom puts itself forward as a cultural center of pre-communist China, with Queen Michelle being a dedicated promoter of both traditional and modern Chinese art.

Sichuan Dominion

The Sichuan Dominion is a militaristic and magocratic constitutional dictatorship located in central China. Advised by a democratically-elected parliament, it is ruled by the Mage General Liang Hong, backed by the Eastern Great Dragon Lung. The structure of the Dominion favors the awakened, rewarding them in its extensive civil service program even beyond the utility of awakened abilities, with the unawakened barred from holding high-ranking position in the civilian government and military.

Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone

Indian Union

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Oceania

Australia

Island Nations

Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

Caribbean League

AAA Megacorporations

http://theshadowrun.proboards.com/thread/346

Ares Macrotechnology

Headquarters: Detroit, UCAS

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

Ares Macrotechnology

Aztechnology

Headquarters: Tenochtitlan, Aztlán

Core Industries: food, consumer goods, and thaumaturgical products

Aztechnology

Cross Applied Technologies

Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec

Core Industries: computers, electronics, multimedia products, biotech

Cross Applied Technologies

Fuchi Industrial Electronics

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Core Industries: Matrix technology

Fuchi Industrial Electronics

Mitsuhama Computer Technologies

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

Core Industries: computers and robotics

Mitsuhama Computer Technologies

NeoNET

Headquarters: Boston, UCAS

Core Industries: Matrix infrastructure, software, electronics, biotech

NeoNET

Renraku Computer Systems

Headquarters: Chiba, Japan

Core Industries: memory storage and databases

Renraku Computer Systems

Saeder-Krupp Schwerindustriegesellschaft

Headquarters: Essen, Germany

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

Saeder-Krupp Schwerindustriegesellschaft

Shiawase Corporation

Headquarters: Osaka, Japan

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

Shiawase Corporation

Wuxing, Inc.

Headquarters: Hong Kong Free Enterprise Enclave

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

Wuxing, Inc.

Yamatetsu

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

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

Yamatetsu

Criminal Syndicates

Triads

While the Triads include the world's oldest crime syndicates, dating hundreds of years before the oldest Yakuza or Mafia organizations, they rose to their current dominant position following the collapse and fragmentation of China in the 2010s, selling food, weapons, tech, and whatever else was needed to the warlords and the desperate people who lived under their rule. The profits were used to build up their criminal empires and for some of them, to expand outside of China. Under the direction of the dragon Lung, the Red Dragon Triads became the most ambitious and expanded first throughout the Pacific Rim and then into the greater world.

Often based out of a local Chinatown, in most cities of the world it is the Triads that dominate the smuggling racket. It is the Triads (along with the Ghost Cartels) who are the kingpins of the global drug trade, as they produce, transport, and distribute the lion's share of the illicit drugs (organic, Awakened, and BADs). The Triads are the biggest manufacturers and distributors of brand counterfeit goods and of illegal BTL chips, as well as the leading talisleggers and people smugglers.

Among the world's organized crime groups, the Triads are one of the most enlightened and progressive when it comes to women, ethnicity, and metahumans. At least in comparison to the Mafia, the Vory, and the Yakuza, though being a Chinese organization there is still a hierarchy favoring the Chinese. They are also the criminal organization which is most likely to fight against oppression and help the freedom fighters. While the Triads are primarily secret societies involved in organized crime, for the Awakened they are also magical initiation groups, with the heads of Triads often being Awakened themselves.

Mafia

The Awakening functionally saved the Mafia, not through an embrace of magic and metahumans, but rather by cementing relationships with a variety of ethnic syndicates that also reacted to the Awakening with prejudice and distrust. For the American Mafia, this meant strengthened bonds first with white ethnic mobs (Jewish, Irish, and Polish), then the Latino syndicates (Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican), then finally the Black street gangs, allowing them to join the national syndicate, though with the old Italian La Cosa Nostra largely still dominant. This resulted in a resurgence of the Mafia's power and the restoration of its dominance over the American criminal underworld, helped by a weakening of the Latin American drug cartels following the takeover of Mexico by the ORO Corporation (later renamed Aztechnology) in the 2010s and the temporary refocusing of Triad attention within the former China following its breakup. This power, however, has waned in recent years as the strength of the Triads, Yakuza, and Seoulpa Rings has grown in Europe and North America.

Yakuza

The Yakuza is the second oldest criminal society in the world and is generally considered the richest and most powerful of the international crime syndicates. Tying itself to the Japanese megacorporations, the Yakuza likewise became global as Japan made it's play for dominance, expanding overseas, especially throughout the Pacific Rim and in North America. This expansion initially allowed for the recruitment of non-Japanese members, particular in Korea, though this policy was changed in the 2040s with the Yakuza Purge, resulting in the formation of the Seoulpa Rings.

The Yakuza is shaped by ancient traditions and ideas of honor and duty. These ideals, and the Yakuza's relationship with Japanese megacorporations, have led it to be one of the most technologically savvy criminal syndicates, but also to be one of the most bigoted organizations in the world, with a tendency towards racism, sexism, and anti-human bigotry beyond even that common in other criminal syndicates. While the Yakuza may make use of non-Japanese, non-male, and non-human agents where profitable, they are never allowed into the formal structure of the clans.

Seoulpa Rings

When the Yakuza purged their ranks of Koreans in North America, they did not succeed in killing them all. One of the survivors was a Korean oyabun, Park Jai Kyu. Rumors are that he was half-Japanese, the offspring of a powerful oyabun and his Korean lover. The story goes that he survived due to his having magical talent, specifically precognition and clairvoyance. On the other hand his survival may have been due to effective planning. Whatever the truth may be, he established the Seoulpa Rings.

Less a centrally-organized syndicate than a series of personality cults, the Rings are formed around specific individuals and usually disintegrate if that individual is killed or removed from power. Periodically senior lieutenants will break off from their parent Rings to establish their own independent outfits, often done with the approval of their former leader. While individual Seoulpa Rings are not overseen by a central body like the Mafia, direct conflict between the Rings is rare, with no turf wars, campaigns of assassination, and so on unlike the mob wars between Yakuza clans, Mafia families, or the Triads.

Vory V Zakone

David Cartel

Ghost Cartels

Islamic Crime Cartels

The Kabul Maffiya is a Pashtun criminal network which dominates the criminal underworld in Southwest Asia. Initially based out of Afghanistan, being the central authority thereof, it has expanded across Central and South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, and is now looking towards Europe.

Working with them is the paramilitary syndicate, the Grey Wolves, descended from nationalist militias supported by the secular and military regimes of 20th century Turkey. Despite formally being a secular organization that is nominally distinct from religious fundamentalism, they are in practice supporters of Islamo-nationalism and regularly do business with fundamentalists cartels. The Grey Wolves dominate the underworld, particularly in regards to smuggling, in most of the region bordering and otherwise near the Black Sea.

Also often operating in coordination with them is the Al-Akhirab Aswad Mayid, an Arabic syndicate based in Spain with influence extending into North Africa.

Technology

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.

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-==Corporation List and Description==
+==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 [[#Native American Nations|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 [[#United Canadian and American States|the United Canadian and American States]] in 2030.  The alliance couldn't hold together, however, and the UCAS soon faced a rush of successions.
+===United Canadian and American States===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/United_Canadian_and_American_States The United Canadian and American States], also referred to as the UCAS, is a federal republic in eastern North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the beginning of the Rocky Mountains. It is the successor state to both the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America. It shares land borders with Quebec, Algonkian-Manitou, Sioux, Pueblo, and the CAS. The state of Seattle on the West Coast of North America is enclaved in the Salish-Shidhe territory.
+The country has 31 states, which have a level of local autonomy according to the system of federalism, and a special district, the Federal District of Columbia, encompassing the capital Washington DC. The state of Seattle is sometimes designated as the metroplex of Seattle, though it possesses all the attributes of a Union State. A UCAS citizen may be referred as an American or a Canadian, UCASer, or Canadian-American.
+See also the dedicated pages for [[the Seattle Sprawl]] and [[Chicago]].
+====Northeastern Metroplex Axis====
+A megalopolis that includes [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Boston Boston], [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/New_York_City New York City], [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Philadelphia Philadelphia], and the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Federal_District_of_Columbia District of Columbia], collectively referred to as NEMA.
+====Detroit====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Detroit Detroit]
+====Toronto====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Toronto Toronto]
+===Confederation of American States===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Confederation_of_American_States The Confederation of American States], abbreviated as the CAS, and sometimes referred to as the Confederated American States, is a republic in eastern North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the beginning of the Sierra Madre. It shares land borders with UCAS, Pueblo, Aztlán, and South Florida.
+The country has 13 states, which have a level of local autonomy according to the system of federalism. A CAS citizen may be referred simply as an American, a Confederationist, or a CASer. While much of the country embraces the term Confederate, a minority of it, and many expatriates, consider it an insult, interpreting it as a reference to the moniker used in the American Civil War.
+While marginalization of metahuman populations is common, the CAS has a reputation for the extremity of their subjugation, with the non-human portion of its prisoners being vastly higher than the already-common disproportion and prison labor being highly integrated into the national economy.
+===California Free State===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/California_Free_State The California Free State] is a libertarian republic on the west coast of North America. California borders the Pacific Ocean the length of the Sierra Nevada, featuring a diverse landscape and Mediterranean climate. The CFS comprises only a portion of the former state of California, with the territory from San Diego south claimed by Aztlán, Los Angeles having succeeded, and San Francisco—while still formally part of the CFS—being in practice controlled by a coalition of Japanese megacorporations.
+===Free City of Los Angeles===
+Enclosed on land by the California Free State, [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Los_Angeles The Free City of Los Angeles] sprawls across what used to be the Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange counties, and additionally includes the western part of San Bernardino county. The free city is best known for its still-dominant position in the entertainment industry, ranging from film and TriD to simsense recordings and video games.
+===Republic of Québec===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Republic_of_Qu%C3%A9bec Republic of Québec]
+===Tír Tairngire===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Tir_Tairngire Tír Tairngire]
+===Native American Nations===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Native_American_Nations Native American Nations]
+====Denver====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/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, Aztlán, the Pueblo, the Sioux, and the Ute.
+==Central America==
+===Aztlán===
+One of the Native American Nations created in the wake of the Great Ghost Dance, [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Aztlan Aztlán] 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 territory that used to belong to Venezuela and Columbia, as well as portions of the former US states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
+The country of Aztlán is inextricable from [[#Aztechnology|Aztechnology]]. The AAA megacorporation dominates politics with its Azatlán party, intermingling its corporate governance with the national government, while also being the primary provider of security and military services to the state. The nation and corporation are notorious for their use of blood magic.
+===Panama Canal Zone===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Panama Panama Canal Zone]
+==South America==
+===Amazonia===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Amazonia Amazonia]
+==Europe==
+===United Kingdom===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]
+===Tír na nÓg===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/T%C3%ADr_na_n%C3%93g Tír na nÓg]
+===Allied German States===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/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 of 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.
+====Black Forest Troll Republic====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Forest_Troll_Kingdom The Black Forest Troll Republic] is an Allied German State (ADL) and one of the Awakened Lands. After the secession of the Süddeutschen Bund (Southern German Federation) in 2038, an attempted pogrom of orks and trolls led to a resistance movement by King Berthold (suspected to be the dragon Kaltenstein) that established a constitutional monarchy within the Black Forest to shelter metahumans.
+===Italian Confederation===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Italian_Confederation Italian Confederation]
+===Scandinavian Union===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Scandinavian_Union Scandinavian Union]
+===Russian Republic===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Russian_Republic Russian Republic]
+===Black Sea City States===
+==Middle East==
+===Arabian Caliphate===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Arabia Arabian Caliphate]
+===East Anatolia===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/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.
+===Secular Republic of Turkey===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Secular_Republic_of_Turkey Secular Republic of Turkey]
+===Israel===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Israel Israel]
+===Palestine===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Palestine Palestine]
+==Asia==
+===Japanese Imperial State===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Japanese_Imperial_State Japanese Imperial State]
+===Chinese Splinter States===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/China China] is no longer a country, but a region occupied by dozens of splinter states all warring with each other. The four largest states (the Canton Confederation, the People's Republic of Henan, the Kingdom of Shaanxi, and the Sichuan Dominion), which retained the former country's nuclear weapons, vye to reunify China under their respective banners, while the other lesser states serve as political wildcards.
+====Canton Confederation====
+Consisting of the former provinces of Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, as well as the city-state of Macao, [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Canton_Confederation the Canton Confederation] is the most economically powerful of the former Chinese states, but its weak-confederation system prevents its federal government from exerting significant non-economic foreign influence. Bordering the South China Sea, the confederation is the Chinese Splinter most integrated into global commerce.
+====People's Republic of Henan====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/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, rumored to be home to training facilities for GreenWar and the Sons of Sauron.
+====Kingdom of Shaanxi====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/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. The kingdom puts itself forward as a cultural center of pre-communist China, with Queen Michelle being a dedicated promoter of both traditional and modern Chinese art.
+====Sichuan Dominion====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Sichuan The Sichuan Dominion] is a militaristic and magocratic constitutional dictatorship located in central China. Advised by a democratically-elected parliament, it is ruled by the Mage General Liang Hong, backed by the Eastern Great Dragon Lung. The structure of the Dominion favors the awakened, rewarding them in its extensive civil service program even beyond the utility of awakened abilities, with the unawakened barred from holding high-ranking position in the civilian government and military.
+===Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Hong_Kong_Free_Enterprise_Zone Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone]
+===Indian Union===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Indian_Union Indian Union]
+===Islamic Republic of Pakistan===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Pakistan Islamic Republic of Pakistan]
+==Oceania==
+===Australia===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Australia Australia]
+==Island Nations==
+===Kingdom of Hawaiʻi===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hawai%CA%BBi Kingdom of Hawaiʻi]
+===Caribbean League===
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Caribbean_League Caribbean League]
+==AAA Megacorporations==
 http://theshadowrun.proboards.com/thread/346
-==The Seattle Sprawl==
+===Ares Macrotechnology===
-https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1_1ES7tdzvO65eeErMFvEu_uedVM&hl=en_US
+'''Headquarters:''' Detroit, UCAS
-===The Redmond Barrens===
+'''Core Industries:''' AresSpace, Ares Global Entertainment, Ares Arms, Knight Errant Security Services, and General Motors
-The district of Redmond was once among the most prosperous places in the Seattle region. During the late twentieth century, it developed from a suburban community into a major center for the computer industry. Huge office complexes and skyscrapers sprang up as more and more companies moved in. Then came the Crash of 2029, the viral attack that crippled the world telecommunications network and wiped out computer systems everywhere. Redmond's primary industry died overnight. Eighty percent of the businesses in the district collapsed, along with the local government, which was unable to cope with the disaster. A small percentage of the residents fled to Bellevue, which was also suffering from the effects of the Crash. The rest turned to lawlessness and riots.
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Ares_Macrotechnology Ares Macrotechnology]
-Drawn by the abandoned homes and apartment buildings, refugees from other districts and Seattle's homeless began moving into the area. This caused further violence, prompting more "respectable people" to flee Redmond, resulting in more empty buildings, which in turn attracted additional squatters. Within a few years, this vicious cycle transformed Redmond into a ghost town inhabited by criminals, transients, refugees, and those who were unable or unwilling to get out.
+===Aztechnology===
-Roughly half a million people live in Redmond, though it's tough to come up with an accurate number because most of the population is SINless and it's impossible conduct an official census. Permanent residents come from diverse backgrounds, but the percentage of metahumans is generally fairly low—a reminder of the prejudicial suburban attitude and the widely held belief that metahumans couldn't hack it (pun intended) in the ratified world of computer programming.
+'''Headquarters:''' Tenochtitlan, Aztlán
-In Redmond today, a scrap of food or a cheap trinket can be a reason to die. Bands of squatters and gangs attack the weekly convoys of armed trucks that deliver food to the district's few grocery stores. Abject poverty gives rise to a host of social ills that repeatedly drag down every resident ambitious enough to attempt to rise above his or her station—or even to behave as a relatively decent metahuman being. Aside from a few remarkable cases, Redmond is a seething mass of violence waiting to explode.
+'''Core Industries:''' food, consumer goods, and thaumaturgical products
-Rather than attempting to find a way to improve the communities in the Barrens, the few companies that bother to have facilities to protect their investments. Many of them hire the toughest, most socially alienated squatters and gangers they can find as security guards. "Accidental" shootings in and around local corporate facilities are just another fact of life in Redmond.
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Aztechnology Aztechnology]
-The syndicates are big in Redmond, of course, and the Mafia and the yakuza run the local black market. Because even legal goods are difficult to get in Redmond, the biggest market is for daily necessities like food and medical supplies, followed closely by "entertainment" such as pirated trid, sim-chips, BTLs, booze, porn, and similar moneymakers. There's a brisk business in illegal weapons, though the syndicates are careful which factions they choose to arm. They keep most arms sales small unless the mobs are preparing their own gangers and soldiers for war.
+===Cross Applied Technologies===
-Redmond is the perfect breeding ground for new syndicate muscle, mainly because the only way most youngsters can make it off the streets is by joining one of the mobs. Yakuza and Mafia recruiters keep their eyes open for promising young talent, especially from the local gangs, and the Seoula Rings also use Redmond as a recruiting center. At least five Rings tunnel recruits out of Redmond and into their ranks elsewhere in the metroplex. The Seven Triangles Ring is currently leading the pack–probably because their recruitment tactics seem specifically designed to scare the drek out of the candidates.
+'''Headquarters:''' Montreal, Quebec
-Redmond attracted a larger suburban population because it is mostly flat, with a few hills in the southern end and the Snoqualmie River winding through almost a third of the distrct. Now the river is filthy, choked with toxic sludge, and other refuse (including the more-than-occasional corpse). Massive packs of devil rats live all along the shoreline, some of the horribly mutated by whatever drek is in the water.
+'''Core Industries:''' computers, electronics, multimedia products, biotech
-Apart from the kilometers of abandoned buildings, the cracked and deteriorating streets, and the vast slums and squatter "cities," Redmond's only distinctive features are the "toxic castles," as locals call the various factories and manufacturing plants. Plenty of them look a lot like techno-Gothic structures of rusting metal and soot-covered brick, surrounded by moats of their own poisonous filth and high walls topped with razorwire. Armed guards regularly patrol the walls to keep the facilities safe from armies of squatters and roving gangs, and most plants ship materials in and out via helicopter or tilt-rotor to avoid bringing trucks through Redmond's dangerous streets.
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Cross_Applied_Technologies Cross Applied Technologies]
-Redmond is ''not'' the place to go if you're looking for nightlife other than sleazy bars and strip-joints where most of the customers'll knife you for a drink or five nuyen. You're not likely to find much biz in such places, though they sometimes provide an out-of-the-way spot for a meeting, if you can keep the locals at bay with suitable levels of intimidation.
+===Fuchi Industrial Electronics ===
-====Touristville====
+'''Headquarters:''' Tokyo, Japan
-The only marginally safe area of Redmond is the section that borders Bellevue, near the offices of the so-called Redmond District Government. Known as "'''Touristville'''," the area caters to tourists and slummers from Bellevue who come to experience the "thrill" of the Barrens and hang out in sleazy clubs. Lone Star actually patrols here. but smart visitors bring along their own protection by packing heat or (If they can afford It) traveling with a bodyguard.
+'''Core Industries:''' Matrix technology
-=====Crusher 495=====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Fuchi_Industrial_Electronics Fuchi Industrial Electronics]
-''124th Avenue and 143rd Street''
-This bar and restaurant on the western edge of Touristville is owned and operated by a group of orks who opened the establishment after the Night of Rage. The place is popular with people from Bellevue and Downtown looking for a real "Barrens" experience, and the owners and staff work hard to make their establishment a sort of community center where the locals can gather. Racists have attacked the place more times than anyone can count, but Crusher 495 offers such a rare and successful opportunity for all the races to gather under one roof in harmony that the Humanis-types only create bad press for themselves by targeting it.
+===Mitsuhama Computer Technologies ===
-''495 is a good place to be among friends in Redmond, especially if you're metahuman. The guide makes the place sound as corny as a 1960s musical, but it just happens to be —people can get together here without the pressures that normally make us fuck with each other. Johnsons, on the other hand, like it as a "neutral ground" between Bellevue and the true depths of the Barrens, where no suit is going to go.'' - Tuskadero
+'''Headquarters:''' Kyoto, Japan
-''Janus Koskey, the manager of the 495, hears everything going on in Redmond worth knowing. He'll pass on information from time to time for a reasonable fee. He's also been known to arrange introductions between Johnsons and shadow-talent, provided neither side is Humanis or looking to cause trouble for the locals.'' - Solo Mio
+'''Core Industries:''' computers and robotics
-=====The Skeleton=====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Mitsuhama_Computer_Technologies Mitsuhama Computer Technologies]
-''Redmond Fall City Road and 196th Avenue NE''
-The Skeleton is Redmond's hottest nightclub, located on the southern edge of Touristville. Redmond's best musicians trek out to the Skeleton most every night in hopes of being discovered by one of the talent scouts or media-corp people who frequent the club. It also attracts Bellevue's young and well-off, who enjoy the thrill of "slumming" in Redmond.
+===NeoNET===
-''The Skeleton's management likes to keep the place looking good, which tends to mean orks and trolls aren't welcome. An average-size bribe usually convinces the bouncer that you'd add "color" the place.'' - Goblin Boy
+'''Headquarters:''' Boston, UCAS
-''Great place to snatch some corporate kid and put pressure on mommy or daddy. Security is tight for that very reason, and a lot of goldenkids have their own bodyguards, but it still beats the odds of successfully breaking into a high-security condoplex.'' - Archangel
+'''Core Industries:''' Matrix infrastructure, software, electronics, biotech
-''The passion of some of those musical acts regularly attracts free spirits to the place. Must be something about the surrounding despair and that desperate urgency to escape you can hear in the songs--draws 'em like a magnet. You can spot them leaning on a pillar, looking a bit too cool, gazing unblinking up at the stage while a mosh pit is consuming itself right in front of them.'' - Darth Vaper
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/NeoNET NeoNET]
-=====The Brain Eaters=====
+===Renraku Computer Systems===
-The Brain Eaters are a mixed-race gang operating in the Touristville area. The Star lets them get away with it because they're fairly tame as thrill gangers go. The Brain Eaters are techies, interested in scavenging the remains of Redmond's technological infrastructure. Their colors are black over white and each gang member wears a distinctive red fez.
+'''Headquarters:''' Chiba, Japan
-The Brain Eaters are heavily into smuggling and are the sole group of shadow-deckers operating out of the Redmond Barrens. Their headquarters has Matrix jack-points, computer hardware, and pirated software. Recent indications suggest the Brain Eaters are helping the yakuza expand their syndicate's operations in Redmond, in exchange for wiz new warez that "fell off the back of a truck."
+'''Core Industries:''' memory storage and databases
-''The Eaters aren't just computer geeks. Plenty of them will bash your head in with a baseball boat if you insult their stupid hats, or if you look like you have something valuable they might want. They make some cred by selling any cyber on their victims before unloading the body parts on the organ market.'' - Wraith II
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Renraku_Computer_Systems Renraku Computer Systems]
-====The Plastic Jungles====
+===Saeder-Krupp Schwerindustriegesellschaft===
-At the turn of the century, a wealthy agriculturist built twenty of the world's largest greenhouses in north-western Redmond, not far from Echo Lake. The giant tent-like buildings, several kilometers in diameter, stand on land that was considered too polluted to grow crops. The agriculturist proved the skeptics wrong—almost. The land yielded amazing harvests of food, but most of it was too contaminated for consumption.
+'''Headquarters:''' Essen, Germany
-The huge greenhouses were used to grow tropical flowers and other decorative plants until the Crash of '29, when the backer lost his fortune and the entire project was abandoned. Primarily because no one else had ventured into the area, the lion's share of Redmond's metahuman population moved into the agri-domes to live among the wild offshoots of the original plants.
+'''Core Industries:''' heavy industry, nuclear energy, oil, chemistry, aerospace and telecommunications.
-The squatters living in the Plastic Jungles are understandably paranoid about outsiders, especially humans. They're organized into urban tribes and scratch out what existence they can from the poisoned soil. Tribal shamans are working to cleanse the soil of contaminants so that the squatters can grow some of their own food. Those who succeed, of course, immediately become targeted by gangs and scavengers looking to steal the food supplies.
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Saeder-Krupp Saeder-Krupp Schwerindustriegesellschaft]
-''Ironically, the metahuman tribes of the Plastic Jungles are a shining example of racial cooperation. Elves works alongside orks, dwarfs, and trolls to protect and sustain the tribes, and most of the metahumans in the community have put aside their differences in order to survive. "Normas" are not well-liked or trusted, but the tribes don't kill visitors out of hand.'' - Smiley
+===Shiawase Corporation===
-''The Plastic Jungles are truly a sight to see. Dirty grayish canopies of bioplastic high over a near-tropical world that is warm and free of rain. The grounds of the old greenhouses are covered with a riot of tropical and semi-tropical vegetation, creeping vines, and exotic flowers in every color of the rainbow, filling the air with a heady scent. The metahumans built tents and shelters out of discarded bioplastic sheeting, wood, thatching, and whatever other materials they could gather. If it wasn't for the contaminated soil and the near-total lack of modern conveniences, the place would almost be pleasant.'' - Greely
+'''Headquarters:''' Osaka, Japan
-''Oddly enough, there's some awakened critters that seem to have adapted to the contamination. You'll hear flocks of birds and see all manner of fauna thriving. Now you know and I know that evolution can't happen that quickly--so what the fuck is going on in there?'' - Birdwatcher
+'''Core Industries:''' power systems, biotech, environmental technology, business analysis
-====="Mama" Palazzo=====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Shiawase_Corporation Shiawase Corporation]
-Nearly without exception, this bucolic dwarf can be found in the territory she's staked out in the Plastic Jungles for her garden. Tended by her and a small number of volunteers, Mama has managed to cultivate a number of beneficial plants that she uses to brew up herbal remedies. Despite the Jungle's lack of any formal system of management, Mama feels a responsibility to the Jungle community, and she has a degree of influence over it with some members out of respect for what she does.
+===Wuxing, Inc.===
-''The jungle lacks "any formal system of management" because it's an anarcho-communist syndicate. It doesn't need anyone in charge, as much as that may surprise whatever corp drone wrote the report this text was pulled from.'' - Rude Rocker
+'''Headquarters:''' Hong Kong Free Enterprise Enclave
-''Palazzo is just a relatively well-known gorilla in what's literally a lawless jungle. The metahumans in there aren't any more civilized than the plants or the awakened creatures, and any of them are just as likely to kill and eat you. Going in there with the hope of finding anything more than roving packs of animals, or what might as well be animals, is expecting too much.'' - The Keynesian Kid
+'''Core Industries:''' finance, heavy industry, shipping, automotive, consumer goods and services
-====Hollywood====
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Wuxing,_Inc. Wuxing, Inc.]
-=====Hollywood Simsense Entertainments=====
+===Yamatetsu===
-''NE 145th Street & 168th Avenue''
-This factory in Redmond churns out cheap simsense gear and even cheaper sim-chips. The place has its own studios, which produce mostly soft porn and horror-schlock, using "actors" with all the emotional impact of wet carp. The company is in the pocket of the Seattle Mafia and cranks out low-grade BTL chips for sale to chippies all over the metroplex. In its back rooms, Hollywood films hardcore sim-porn and even worse drek, like snuff-films using "actors" recruited from the streets of the Barrens. A lot of wannabe actors and actresses end up working in one of HSE's productions after becoming addicted to BTLs, so they'll do whatever the director says for another hit.
+'''Headquarters:''' Kyoto, Japan
-=====The Red Hot Nukes=====
+'''Core Industries:''' Crashcart Medical Services, consumer products, naval technology
-The Red Hot Nukes are a dwarf go-gang operating out of Hollywood along Route 202. They consider themselves more of a neighborhood association than a gang. Their leader, Grinder, is an African-American dwarf who organized the gang after her retried from a short shadowrunning career. The gang's colors are gray and red, along with an ever-present baseball cap. Their symbol is a mushroom cloud, which commemorates both their name and their skill with explosives. If it goes boom, the Nukes know how to build it, use it, and disarm it. In fact, the gang's initiation ritual involves disarming a bomb built by Grinder. No one gets a second chance.
+[https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Yamatetsu Yamatetsu]
-''The Nukes specialize in rockets involving demolitions: protection, insurance scams, terrorism, even wetwork if the price is right. They love any opportunity to blow something up.'' - Bung
+==Criminal Syndicates==
-''I used to run with Grinder when he worked the shadows. Back then, he was so rock-steady he could disarm a corporate security system in nothing flat. I went drinking with him once after he founded the gang, and he said something about starting the Nukes because of something he found out on a run. He wouldn't say anything more about it, just shivered and shook his head like someone coming out of a bad dream. Whatever he found out, it scared him bad. I didn't think anything could scare Grinder.'' - Tangent
+===Triads===
-''"Neighborhood association" is right, because they want to keep things quiet in service of the neighborhood business: producing and distributing illegal sim-chips and BTLs. They run the product out of Redmond on their hot rods, and the Mafia makes them their exclusive distributor in the Redmond Barrens. Their involvement in the production side of the business is even more direct, with gang members regularly appearing in the gruesome live-fire horror scenarios recorded by the Hollywood capture studios.'' - Wraith II
+While the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Triads Triads] include the world's oldest crime syndicates, dating hundreds of years before the oldest Yakuza or Mafia organizations, they rose to their current dominant position following the collapse and fragmentation of [[#ChineseSplinterStates|China]] in the 2010s, selling food, weapons, tech, and whatever else was needed to the warlords and the desperate people who lived under their rule. The profits were used to build up their criminal empires and for some of them, to expand outside of China. Under the direction of the dragon Lung, the Red Dragon Triads became the most ambitious and expanded first throughout the Pacific Rim and then into the greater world.
-====Glow City====
+Often based out of a local Chinatown, in most cities of the world it is the Triads that dominate the smuggling racket. It is the Triads (along with the [[#Ghost Cartels|Ghost Cartels]]) who are the kingpins of the global drug trade, as they produce, transport, and distribute the lion's share of the illicit drugs (organic, Awakened, and BADs). The Triads are the biggest manufacturers and distributors of brand counterfeit goods and of illegal BTL chips, as well as the leading talisleggers and people smugglers.
-In 2013, the Trojan-Satsop nuclear power plant in southeast Redmond suffered a partial meltdown, contaminating Beaver Lake and the surrounding land for kilometers around. In 2028, Shiawase Atomics built a new plant next to the rusting hulk of its predecessor. That plant's been providing power to the metroplex ever since. After the Crash of '29, squatters and refugees began building hovels on the contaminated land, despite attempts by the metroplex government to remove them. Unwilling to continue to waste money protecting a segment of the population that didn't even pay taxes, the government eventually gave up and the squatters remained. Since then, the transient population has more than tripled, despite the high death rate from cancer and radiation sickness, to say nothing of the infant mortality rate and some hideous radiation-induced mutations.
+Among the world's organized crime groups, the Triads are one of the most enlightened and progressive when it comes to women, ethnicity, and metahumans. At least in comparison to the Mafia, the Vory, and the Yakuza, though being a Chinese organization there is still a hierarchy favoring the Chinese. They are also the criminal organization which is most likely to fight against oppression and help the freedom fighters. While the Triads are primarily secret societies involved in organized crime, for the Awakened they are also magical initiation groups, with the heads of Triads often being Awakened themselves.
-''Glow City is a fragging community of mutants. Some are so twisted by the radiation they seem like a hideous new metahuman race. Some magicians among the squatters have tried to treat the illness and mutations, but the few shamans living there have trouble coaxing any power from the pulluted and irradiated land, and it seems unlikely any mages live there (most Glow City residents can't even read).'' - Yahoo
+===Mafia===
-''This place is a terrible blight. The Great Mother cries out in pain, and the sound of her weeping often drowns out our songs. THe only power to be found here is pollution and slow death.'' - She Who Knows the Night
+The Awakening functionally saved the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Mafia Mafia], not through an embrace of magic and metahumans, but rather by cementing relationships with a variety of ethnic syndicates that also reacted to the Awakening with prejudice and distrust. For the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Mafia_(North_America) American Mafia], this meant strengthened bonds first with white ethnic mobs (Jewish, Irish, and Polish), then the Latino syndicates (Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican), then finally the Black street gangs, allowing them to join the national syndicate, though with the old [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/La_Cosa_Nostra Italian La Cosa Nostra] largely still dominant. This resulted in a resurgence of the Mafia's power and the restoration of its dominance over the American criminal underworld, helped by a weakening of the Latin American drug cartels following the takeover of Mexico by the ORO Corporation (later renamed Aztechnology) in the 2010s and the temporary refocusing of Triad attention within the former China following its breakup. This power, however, has waned in recent years as the strength of the Triads, Yakuza, and Seoulpa Rings has grown in Europe and North America.
-''Not all shamans have trouble with Glow City. I've heard of a shaman living practically on top of the remains of the failed nuclear plant who goes by the name of Burning Bones. They say he's so irradiated that his skeleton glows in the dark through his flesh, but he's not dead of cancer or radiation poisoning because he's in tough the "spirits of the invisible fire" that aid and protect him and his followers. He can raise spirits in Glow City, something no other shaman can do.'' - Winger
+===Yakuza===
-=====The Body Mall=====
+The [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Yakuza Yakuza] is the second oldest criminal society in the world and is generally considered the richest and most powerful of the international crime syndicates. Tying itself to the Japanese megacorporations, the Yakuza likewise became global as Japan made it's play for dominance, expanding overseas, especially throughout the Pacific Rim and in North America. This expansion initially allowed for the recruitment of non-Japanese members, particular in Korea, though this policy was changed in the 2040s with the Yakuza Purge, resulting in the formation of the [[#Seoulpa Rings|Seoulpa Rings]].
-''Issaquah-Beaver Lake Road and East Beaver Lake Drive''
-Not far from Glow City is an abandoned hospital, taken over by a group of street docs and dormer staff members who offer legal and not-so-legal medical services to anyone who can afford them. The hospital's four floors are set up like a sort of "shopping mall" of illegal chop-shops, body clinics, and similar operations, all offering the best services at the lowest prices.
+The Yakuza is shaped by ancient traditions and ideas of honor and duty. These ideals, and the Yakuza's relationship with Japanese megacorporations, have led it to be one of the most technologically savvy criminal syndicates, but also to be one of the most bigoted organizations in the world, with a tendency towards racism, sexism, and anti-human bigotry beyond even that common in other criminal syndicates. While the Yakuza may make use of non-Japanese, non-male, and non-human agents where profitable, they are never allowed into the formal structure of the clans.
-''You can find a lot of cheap cyber-mods here, at least 10 to 20 percent less than you'd pay in a Downtown hospital or clinic. Of course, a lot of the cyber is low-grade or second-hand (so are most of the replacement organs), so you get what you pay for.'' - Neon Chrome
+===Seoulpa Rings===
-''This place does a brisk business with the yakuza and Tamanous, buying and selling illegal organs and used cyberware. If you're shopping around for your medical needs, this place or Doctor Bob's Quickstitch in the Bargain Basement neighborhood are the best in the district (though that may not be saying much).'' - Doc-U-Dub
+When the Yakuza purged their ranks of Koreans in North America, they did not succeed in killing them all. One of the survivors was a Korean oyabun, Park Jai Kyu. Rumors are that he was half-Japanese, the offspring of a powerful oyabun and his Korean lover. The story goes that he survived due to his having magical talent, specifically precognition and clairvoyance. On the other hand his survival may have been due to effective planning. Whatever the truth may be, he established the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Seoulpa_Rings Seoulpa Rings].
-=====The Rusted Stilettos=====
+Less a centrally-organized syndicate than a series of personality cults, the Rings are formed around specific individuals and usually disintegrate if that individual is killed or removed from power. Periodically senior lieutenants will break off from their parent Rings to establish their own independent outfits, often done with the approval of their former leader. While individual Seoulpa Rings are not overseen by a central body like the Mafia, direct conflict between the Rings is rare, with no turf wars, campaigns of assassination, and so on unlike the mob wars between Yakuza clans, Mafia families, or the Triads.
-The Rusted Stilettos claim the territory near Glow City in the southern portion of Redmond along Route 202. The gang is made up of mostly of trolls and orks, and their colors are black and rust red. Many gang members look sickly and pale—whether from make-up, tattooing, or simply life near Glow City, it's hard to say.
+===Vory V Zakone===
-The gang recruits members from Glow City's squatter communities. Most of its money comes from protection rackets against the local residents, along with smuggling and dealing BTL and other mindbenders to the squatters. The syndicates don't take much notice of Glow City or Stilettos, leaving them to take care of their own, which seems to be just how the gangers want it.
+===David Cartel===
-''The stilettos are fragging mutants, literally. They operate in an irradiated zone and look like death warmed over. A lot of the trolls in the gang have excessive dermal bone deposits that make their skins pale and lumpy, but also more toughly armored than a regular troll's. They often dye what little hair they have pale green.'' - Crusher Keel
+===Ghost Cartels===
-====Organized Crime====
+===Islamic Crime Cartels===
-While influential in Seattle, the Mafia struggles as power is consolidated under their new leadership, the Bigio Family, and has relatively little day-to-day control of Redmond. Similarly, the Triads, while powerful in Seattle and particularly the Puyallup Barrens, hold relatively little territory in the Redmond Barrens. The Redmond district is, instead, dominated by the yakuza, with significant opposition by the Seoulpa Rings, the Korean crime syndicate created by the pogrom of the yakuza's Korean membership.
+The [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Kabul_Maffiya Kabul Maffiya] is a Pashtun criminal network which dominates the criminal underworld in Southwest Asia. Initially based out of Afghanistan, being the central authority thereof, it has expanded across Central and South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, and is now looking towards Europe.
-The Nishidon-gumi syndicate of the yakuza dominates smuggling operations through Puyallup and Redmond, along with some hijacking and traditional protection rackets. The gumi also runs much of the vice industry in the Barrens, particularly the chip trade, against significant competition from the Mafia and the Triads. While the oldest yakuza clan in Seattle, the yakuza in the Sprawl currently answer to the Shotozumi-rengo, whose leader, Hanzo Shotozumi, is responsible for unifying all the yakuza throughout the Pacific Northwest.
+Working with them is the paramilitary syndicate, the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Grey_Wolves Grey Wolves], descended from nationalist militias supported by the secular and military regimes of 20th century Turkey. Despite formally being a secular organization that is nominally distinct from religious fundamentalism, they are in practice supporters of Islamo-nationalism and regularly do business with fundamentalists cartels. The Grey Wolves dominate the underworld, particularly in regards to smuggling, in most of the region bordering and otherwise near the Black Sea.
-Also part of the yakuza, the Shigeda-gumi clan runs operations in the north of the metroplex, including parts of Redmond. The gumi competes with the Ciarniello Family (Mafia) in the gambling business and has considerable influence on smuggling in northern Seattle, as well as a large slice of the vice industry.
+Also often operating in coordination with them is the [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Al-Akhirab_Aswad_Mayid Al-Akhirab Aswad Mayid], an Arabic syndicate based in Spain with influence extending into North Africa.
-''The Shigedas have been importing bunraku "flesh-puppet" brothels from San Fransisco, using prostitutes modified with personafix BTL chips to make them into whomever the client wants. The brothels are a huge cash cow, so you can bet the Mafia or some other rival will try to muscle in on the action." - Spook
+==Technology==
-Formed from the remaining Korean members, or their families, after the assassination of the previously-Korean leadership of the Seattle yakuza, the Seoulpa Rings are a small but dedicated opposition to the yakuza. The Komun'go Ring operates in the Redmond district, running smuggling, fencing, protection, and information rackets, frequently trying to horn in on yakuza action, and equally often butting heads with local gangs. The Ring runs a lot of protection rackets near the Salish-Shidhe border, using threats of magical and physical violence to give their "suggestions" weight.
+===System Identification Numbers (SINs)===
-====Minor Characters====
+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.
-'''"Stinky" Joe''' is a particularly pungent metahuman, rumored to be infected with a relatively mild variant of the HMMV virus.
+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.
-'''"Big Sack" Johnson''' is a member of the Crimson Blazers, an offshoot of the Crimson Crush, and a big fan of the Seattle Screamers.
+Many older SIN holders have a UV-reactive barcode tattoo on their wrist of their number, with younger citizens often relying solely on [[Gear#Personal_Electronics|embedded short-range radio transmitters]].

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