[color=bdbdbd][center][color=DBA901][b]T h e  W o r l d[/b][/color]

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[color=DBA901][b][u]-The Republic - Ba Sing Se-[/u][/b][/color][/center]The nation, or City as I'll refer to it, is made up almost entirely of nonbenders after benders were aggressively removed from the face of the planet. Most lead happy lives within Ba Sing Se where they have been enjoying a time of great peace. The City itself is still divided into three sections by walls composed now of both earth (lower ring) and steel (upper ring). Replacing the parts that have been torn down are man made metal sections that stand just as tall and are twice as strong. Social class is still confined within it's ring of origin, with poverty increased the farther away from the center you travel. Technology here is near future, near future as compared to real life modern technology. They have computers, jets, wearable tech, and AI.

Benders are effectively extinct, now a part of a culture that is near completely forgotten. To keep a peace, they are outlawed and are actively search for and expunged. The men and women of the Republic Security Forces (RSF) are armed with scanning devices that detect the ability to bend in one's genes and if one is found, lethal force is authorized. Many establishments in the city have them installed over doorways both out of necessity for their own protection and by law. Hospitals have begun enforcing abortions when an expectant mother is discovered to be carrying a child sensitive to spirit energy. Any who do exist do so under great effort to keep their curse hidden or risk execution. All other citizens of the Republic are ruled justly under the King who rarely reveals himself to the public eye.

Since these laws have been put into place, there have been little to no major conflicts or wars.

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[color=bdbdbd]Your typical Lower Ring slum.[/color]
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To live in the lower ring is to the live among those of the lowest social class in the city. The outer ring of Ba Sing Se is home to the low income or those who live a life outside of the acceptable social ladder of society. The neon illuminated streets here weave in and out of ill maintained buildings packed too tightly together. The air is thick with dust and grim and black clouds that hang low and spew from the factories dotting the landscape. Sitting beneath the shadow of the wall and just outside it's gates are farms that feed all of the Republic.

Here at the foot of the great city, crime is most rampant. There's a strong presence of the underground that security forces have a hard time suppressing. Population here is also of great concern as it's grown well beyond capacity. Residents have begun spilling onto land immediately beyond the wall and abandoning it's protection all together. There has been talk in the halls of the Palace to build a fourth wall around the third or perhaps begin resettling the rest of the world.
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[color=bdbdbd]One of many business districts in the Middle Ring.[/color]
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Home to the middle class and those with an affinity toward business or the greater pursuits of education and their promising careers. Here you'll find the last vestige of the human race flourishing to it's greatest potential. Men and women work to drive what little of the world they have left and make an acceptable living doing so.

The land here is dotted with better schools, clean hospitals, facilities with better paying jobs. The blue sky is interrupted at regular intervals by the black of numerous skyscrapers. Clouds are pushed to the side by airships ferrying precious cargo or perhaps paying citizens wherever they need to be. The streets are wider, open and ever traversed by a never ending stream of Satomobiles.

Crime is relatively low here... but perhaps that's because criminal activity is more controlled... refined.
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[color=bdbdbd]Palace. Home of the King and his Advisors.[/color]
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The Upper Class. The land here is fertile, untouched by the nightmares left behind in the wake of a destructive war, and inhabited by the rich and powerful. Many of the homes and establishments are of exotic design and elegantly encroached by flora with enough space in between each to prevent a feeling of clutter despite the limited space of the inner ring. What few business are run here cater to those of a different caliber of life. Most men and women are blanketed by a thin veil of ignorance to the rest of the world. The remaining minority run it.

The Walls around the inner ring were moved at some point after the war with segments added as it was pushed further into the middle ring. This allowed for more space as the population in this area grew.
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[center][color=DBA901][b][u]-The Wilds-[/u][/b][/color][/center]Outside the walls of Ba Sing Se lie the abandoned world. The Great War left parts of the landscape scarred with destructive use of Synergy weapons leaving the former capitals of nations blanketed in spiritual radiation. Wandering into these areas will leave one with a life force draining effect that will eventually kill that person… or so it’s believed. Since no one from inside the walls has been in these areas for years, no one really knows what’s out there. For those who live outside the walls, and there are plenty, these irradiated areas tell a different story.

The war pushed some flora and fauna to the brink of extinction with some no longer being found in the wild. This has left some parts of the world barren with little life to be found and sources of water contaminated. Much of the landscape between the former major cities of the world remained untouched but those surrounding what was once populated areas are now uninhabitable. The northern and southern spirit portals have been sealed while the remaining portal in Republic City has been kept open and is used to harvest Spirit Energy.

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Formerly the Republic City spirit portal. The city and surrounding area have been reduced to little more than the plant itself and the living areas and shops to support it and it's workers. The work pays well but is unusually dangerous for what would otherwise be a simple job. There are constant and sporadic accidents that occur on site putting some people off to such a career.

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Synergy Plant and the siphon attached to the portal.

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The rest of the once great city has been left behind to be reclaimed by the world.[/center][/hider]
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These areas bore the brunt of the war and still carry the scars. The land is saturated in Synergy radiation and is said to slowly kill any who enter, however those who live outside the walls of the city tell of a very different story. They tell of a land much more sinister than previously believed. Of a land filled with... anger.

All former capitals of the now extinct bending nations have been turned into irradiated areas. This includes three of the five airbending temples.

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Gao Ling[/center]
In another time, Gao Ling would have rivaled Republic City in both size and beauty. It had a majority population of Earth benders with a healthy mix of immigrants from the other nations as well. After the fall of Ba Sing Se, the city of Gao Ling, already a threat to the Republic was quickly subdued by way of nuclear force. Today, much of the area is avoided by survivors who enjoy prolonging their life.[/hider]
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Pockets of civilization far outside the walls of The Republic where survivors of the war have made their own living. They keep away from the city and have so remained that the average citizen within the city refuses to believe they exist. They do, and although life without the "protection" of the Republic affords a kind of freedom that those within the walls are without, survivors are presented with their own set of problems.

Antibending laws are much more lax in the wild and some even go out of their way to help those who are born with the gift. However there are others who see benders for the danger they think they pose and would do away with a clean conscious for a chance at better living within the walls of the City. A very large majority of men and women want to see every last one of them dead. Besides that, survivors are constantly at each others throats over what's left to scavenge of the world. Settlements provide an air of civility that is hard to find anywhere else.

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Current whereabouts of any settlement are unknown.[/center]
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[center][color=DBA901][b][u]-The Desert of Death-[/u][/b][/color][/center]Also known as the Si Wong Desert, is a large swath of land that was largely overlooked during the war. Despite it's barren surface, freckled with the hallucinogenic cacti that dot it's landscape, and the hostile environment the desert fosters, this is where the game will actually take place. Bordering this desert is the mountain range to the east and south and remnants of the surrounding forest and swamp to the North and West. There are rumors of a safe place on the far side of the desert but the impossible nature of the journey across and the fact that few have been beyond the walls of the city and back to tell of their discovery, all are hard pressed to believe.

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