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Outside of the dreamland walls, in the rest of the urban areas, the competition to get inside the walls is even higher than the competition among those already inside to remain. This is one of the only drivers that keep things from devolving into pure chaos; people know that they never let in anybody with a record as a miscreant. | Outside of the dreamland walls, in the rest of the urban areas, the competition to get inside the walls is even higher than the competition among those already inside to remain. This is one of the only drivers that keep things from devolving into pure chaos; people know that they never let in anybody with a record as a miscreant. | ||
- | Populations have been drawn to the dreamlands like butterflies to flame, creating intense population pressures around the dreamlands. Corporate arcologies of dubious construction house masses of white collar folks striving to look like they belong inside the walls. Few make it. The less fortunate often find ways to eke out a living, residing in shanty-towns or wherever they can... though when the going gets tough, many simply become ballotmen. Homeless populations seem to be declining, and the corporations | + | Populations have been drawn to the dreamlands like butterflies to flame, creating intense population pressures around the dreamlands. Corporate arcologies of dubious construction house masses of white collar folks striving to look like they belong inside the walls. Few make it. The less fortunate often find ways to eke out a living, residing in shanty-towns or wherever they can... though when the going gets tough, many simply become ballotmen. Homeless populations seem to be declining, and the corporations |
//Clinging to the Urban Infrastructure// | //Clinging to the Urban Infrastructure// | ||
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===== Technology and Services ===== | ===== Technology and Services ===== | ||
- | Broadly speaking, technology available to humanity has advanced tremendously... but most folks don't even have the resources to get an internet connection any more (the infrastruction | + | Broadly speaking, technology available to humanity has advanced tremendously... but most folks don't even have the resources to get an internet connection any more (the infrastructure |
Other basic infrastructure services have degraded to varying degrees dependent on the area. Outside of the dreamlands it's rare to find a place where every service is working fine. Some urban places no longer have garbage removal, and people make dumps out of parks. Other places may have really bad roads. Streetlights or the sewer system may not work, and electricity may be in supply only intermittently. In some suburbs there has been no maintenance done in 30 years and things are completely in ruins. | Other basic infrastructure services have degraded to varying degrees dependent on the area. Outside of the dreamlands it's rare to find a place where every service is working fine. Some urban places no longer have garbage removal, and people make dumps out of parks. Other places may have really bad roads. Streetlights or the sewer system may not work, and electricity may be in supply only intermittently. In some suburbs there has been no maintenance done in 30 years and things are completely in ruins. | ||
- | Only the very rich have access to any sort of technology that's beyond what's available in 2018. Most have technology more like the 1980s. In many places roads, streetlights, | + | Only the very rich have access to any sort of technology that's beyond what's available in 2020. Most have technology more like the 1980s. In many places roads, streetlights, |
//Railway Platform in Ruins// | //Railway Platform in Ruins// | ||
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Many rural places, like the suburbs, are almost or entirely abandoned. Often their population was at some point " | Many rural places, like the suburbs, are almost or entirely abandoned. Often their population was at some point " | ||
- | Rural places that manage somehow to survive, often existing in isolation entirely forgotten by the corporations who have no use for their distant and relatively tiny markets, have in some cases been thrown back to the 19th century or further. Few or no services we take for granted in 2019 are available here. Outhouses, and hunting for game as a profession are both commonplace. | + | Rural places that manage somehow to survive, often existing in isolation entirely forgotten by the corporations who have no use for their distant and relatively tiny markets, have in some cases been thrown back to the 19th century or further. Few or no services we take for granted in 2020 are available here. Outhouses, and hunting for game as a profession are both commonplace. |
- | Here law-enforcement is entirely ad hoc, where it exists at all. Warlord gangs of bandits are common, roaming between these towns, the corporations not at all caring, unless they encroach on the corporate farms. | + | Here law-enforcement is almost |
//Rare Clear Skies Over a Forgotten Town// | //Rare Clear Skies Over a Forgotten Town// | ||
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===== Attitudes ===== | ===== Attitudes ===== | ||
- | Everyone complains about the corporations, | + | Everyone |
Most people just keep their heads down and try not to get noticed. | Most people just keep their heads down and try not to get noticed. |