Locations

Sorted by scale, because "location" covers a nation and a stairwell and the difference matters when you're planning. Start at the top if you don't know where you are yet.

Or pan and zoom the interactive version, rendered from the same generator at full resolution.

Top: the city. A free city of twenty million, with no governor, no legislature and no police contract; the setting has how it got that way. The numbers match the badges on the neighborhood cards below. Bottom: what surrounds it, which is the map to reach for when somebody asks how you leave. Click either for full size.

Metropolitan areas and nations#

The places that contain the other places. Three areas on this coast, the nation that surrounds one of them, the two governments that expelled us, and the one that left the Union of its own accord and sells the cheapest paper on the continent.

California Free State

What's left of California, governing from Sacramento. It threw us out and it still holds all the paper.

The CAS

Thirteen states, thirteen registries, and the cheapest real identity on the market.

Los Angeles

Twenty million people, no government, no country. Where the ruin is, what held, and how you get in.

Orange County

Fun City, the gated hills behind it, and seventeen miles of nothing at the far end. Four owners, a contractor, and a million people nobody bought.

Pueblo

The country on the other side of every road out. Runs its border like a procurement department, with a schedule of fees.

San Diego

Sealed for ten years. Everyone knows where the line is; nobody knows what's behind it.

The Sprawl

Most of the city, and the definition is a negative: no council, no contract, nobody coming.

The UCAS

The Union, two thousand miles away. It threw California out in 2050 and hasn't thought about us since.

Neighborhoods#

Districts inside Los Angeles, roughly west to east.

1 Malibu

Ash country. Standing mansions, no owners, no insurance, and one road.

2 Santa Monica

Eight square miles that still governs itself, looking down at an ocean it can't use.

3 West LA

Century City's towers, Westwood's university, and a lot of fence between them.

11 Century City

A studio's parking lot, subdivided into countries. No through streets, no published map of who owns which lobby, and the border is a lobby floor.

4 West Hollywood

One point nine square miles that still has a working city government, because it built one once already.

5 Sunset Strip and Hollywood

Hollywood is the industry, not an address. This is where it plays.

12 Studio City and Burbank

A walled arcology cluster of soundstages. This is where Hollywood actually works.

6 Koreatown and Mid-City

The densest ground in Los Angeles, and nobody administers it. This is where the crew lives.

7 Downtown

A corporate haven that failed, with a fortified core that didn't.

Inglewood

Nine square miles that work, a cemetery bigger than downtown, and a forty-acre pond where the stadium was.

8 The Beach Cities

Inside El Infierno, which nobody expected. The Green Tide made it cheap, the wave emptied it, and aerospace still runs behind the fences.

9 Long Beach and San Pedro

The richest ground in Los Angeles, and the cordon starts where its fences stop.

Places#

Single buildings, single facilities, a street and a river. Each of these is somewhere a run actually happens.

Crypto.com Arena

Two dead words and a period that stopped working after the Crash. Locals say Staples Center. It's the one venue in this city that still looks legitimate.

Oceanwide Plaza

Three unfinished towers downtown that nobody owns and everybody uses.

San Onofre and the Seventeen Miles

The source, and seventeen miles of nothing after it. Two armed powers, and neither will enter.

Santa Monica Airport

Two hundred acres of contested jurisdiction, so everything comes through here.

Santa Monica Pier

Half a mile of sealed deck over closed water, and not one foot of it is anybody's to zone.

The Coliseum

Ninety thousand seats, a city that can't license anything, and a card every Wednesday.

The Getty

A fortress on a ridge holding the originals, reachable by one driverless tram.

The River and the Tunnels

Fifty-one miles of concrete nobody can see into, and thousands more miles of dark underneath it.

Union Station

The land border, and the reason the trains still run.