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It's year 2046. The end isn't near, but seems like it might be to those in a rapidly dwindling population.

Despite urban settlements blooming due to few daring to stay outside the cities, people grow more and more secluded by the day, tending to their own. Strangers are regarded with suspicion. It's the only way to survive in a world that doesn't cut a person much slack.

Naturally, unknown sicknesses spread like wildfire in this sort of environment. At least a fourth of the world’s population has been decimated at this point, and the numbers don't seem to be slowing--quite the contrary.

Food production is automated because the wilderness is riddled with unknown entities. Roads are a constant danger. Aeroplanes pollute the airspace between major cities, leaving a constant smog hovering in the air. Bullet trains still jet between locations that can't be reached via air, but they come few and far between.

Free trade is nothing but a dream in conditions like this. The lack of menial work leads to poverty and an economy teetering on the brink of collapse. Crime is the only way to make a living for a majority of the survivors.

It's not just the burglars and kidnappers that you have to be afraid of, though. There’s actual monsters, as well. Happily someone you know knows someone who knows this one guy who might be able to do something about your problem. He'll require cash and never gives you his name, but that's better than watching your child eat his own leg and choke on his own blood.