The city-state where all of this happens, and the rules it runs on.
Places
- Talaris, an island city-state west of Palawan, and the first city on Earth running on cold fusion.
- The JD Strip, the dense eastern corridor where most of the population lives, across five districts.
- Old Town, the oldest and most Filipino of them.
- University of Talaris, the research campus where the VDMH-1 reactor architecture was engineered.
- VD Garden, the city’s largest stadium.
How it came to be
- History of Talaris, from fishing grounds to the Compact to the city-state.
- Government of Talaris, the Basic Law, the Assembly of 40, and the city’s neighbors.
How it works
- Culture of Talaris, who lives here and how.
- The Optional Work Week, the corporate-funded dividend that redefined full-time work as roughly twenty hours.
- Transportation, from the Tets and the Grid to the ferries and the food cars.
- Analog Drivers, the people who still drive by hand.
- PWR UP, which began as a song hook and ended up as the city’s civic gesture.