This event began 07/12/2025 and repeats every year forever
FOR AALBC
SETTING
Long after the fall of the Constellamperor, the last ruler of the whole world, who legend says began the Tactile Virus plague. The planet is broken up into two things. Second , The Urban Commands, self isolating city states, born from a heritage of surviving the ever mutating virus with walls plus fire plus suits. They are self sufficient in purpose, socialist in racial ranking , militaristic in communal structure, merit based in human relationship. Consummation has a space, Leaders have a space, everywhere else are barracks. All children, Initiates, are raised together. All Initiates get a rearing to gain at least one Utility. A communal structure maintained out of successful habit. First, The Untouchable World, the lush fertile lands or seas or skies the Urban Commands are dotted in. Where few are mysterious figures who are only known through legends or myths or gossip to Urbaners or Untouchables. Where most are Untouchables, the descendants of species infected by the virus who gained herd immunity but can still spread it with a touch. Most Untouchables live unknown to the Urbaners. A few Untouchables from plants to insects live just beyond the walls of Urban Commands are flow seasonally to said walls. In this landscape exist Urban Command 259 whose comrades have to maintain their growing city, continue their way of life, defend from the seasonal threats in the Untouchable World.
SETTING
It is 1960's Harlem(Black Mecca), New York City. Most businesses in the Black Mecca are white owned. Adam Clayton Powell jr will lead protests to get them to hire black people. Robert F Wagner jr ended Tammany Hall's dominance over the city, Lindsey would witness the murder of Malcolm + MLK . The Five Families had ten years before the RICO act to run the underworld absent federal intervention. Johnson and Johnson in New Jersey and Pfizer downtown Manhattan dominate the pharmaceutical industry. But, a drug has arrived from the underworld of Harlem that has become the drug of choice in the city,generating growing number of tourist. Rich or poor, black or white, twenty somethings or silverhaired, love the drug. The Black Drug Dealers who produce it want to keep the business, but they don't have the resources to expand it. Their local rivals want to help them lose it, but can't afford to sell out. The government through the NYPD wants a bigger cut of the profits, but has to keep it away from the courts. The mob wants to manage its operation, but the family that controls the region hasn't been able to uncover the operation even through bloody means. The pharmaceuticals want to know everything about it, and are willing to spend untold sums to get any services needed to accomplish their task. Those who created the drug want to disconnect the trail to them and remain anonymous, but have to risk being exposed to do so.
SETTING
The house of representative floor of the USA. The president of the USA will make a speech, interrupted.
Then a dancer will introduce a film the house will watch. The film will play.
The film involves a chivalric variation of modernity where Burlesque performers battle each other for the votes of the people among two competing crowds.
SETTING
The technological capability of machines led to the USA providing Universal Basic Income (UBI) to maintain financial balance with the new technology. China followed. Nuclear Powers: USA/China/Russia/England/India/Pakistan/Israel/North Korea and the European Union(EU) all became founding signatories to the Second Non Proliferation Treaty (SNPT).
The treaty: allow only the nine nuclear powers[ France through the EU] the ability to have UBI,
demand the EU put an interminable block on new membership,
make immigration to or fro plus cryptocurrency activity in the nine founding signatories illegal,
demand all non founding signatories make UBI illegal in their law,
accept cryptocurrencies only if pegged to the USA dollar or Chinese Renminbi,
demand any and all accepted cryptocurrencies are legal to signatories who are not founding signatories,
NYC+ Hong Kong became the only two cities in the world where legal cryptocurrencies by the SNPT can be converted into a currency, no other cities are allowed. Hong Kong can only do Renminbi while NYC can only do US Dollars. Mexico/Saudi Arabia/Singapore/Brazil all became signatories followed by most governments barring Cuba/South Sudan/East Timor. In the founding states, people no longer have to work, real estate/utilities/food are stabilized plus affordable, healthcare is universal. Government Agent/Athlete/Prostitution/Scholars (The GAPS) are the only official human professions left. In the second signer states, a complex web of cryptomarkets replaced all stock or bond or futures markets. Resources or fortunes are won or lost every second.
