Locations
Three metropolitan areas, three nations, and everywhere inside Los Angeles worth naming.
Sorted by scale, because "location" covers a nation and a stairwell and the difference matters when you're planning. Start at the top if you don't know where you are yet.
The numbers on the city map match the badges on the neighbourhood cards below. Click either map for full size.
Metropolitan areas and nations
The places that contain the other places. Three areas on this coast, the nation that surrounds one of them, and the two governments that expelled us: one of which still holds most of the paperwork.
Los Angeles
Twenty million people, no government, no country. Where the ruin is, what held, and how you get in.
Orange County
Fun City, the gated hills behind it, and seventeen miles of nothing at the far end. Everything here belongs to somebody, and it's a short list.
San Diego
Sealed for ten years. Everyone knows where the line is; nobody knows what's behind it.
Pueblo
The country on the other side of every road out. Runs its border like a procurement department, with a schedule of fees.
California Free State
What's left of California, governing from Sacramento. It threw us out and it still holds all the paper.
The UCAS
The Union, two thousand miles away. It threw California out in 2050 and hasn't thought about us since.
Neighbourhoods
Districts inside Los Angeles, roughly west to east.
1 Malibu
Ash country. Standing mansions, no owners, no insurance, and one road.
2 Santa Monica
Eight square miles that still governs itself, looking down at an ocean it can't use.
3 West LA
Century City's towers, Westwood's university, and a lot of fence between them.
11 Century City
A studio's car park, subdivided into countries. No through streets, no published map of who owns which lobby, and the border is a lobby floor.
4 West Hollywood
One point nine square miles that still has a working city government, because it built one once already.
5 Hollywood
Money goes uphill. Trouble runs along the boulevards.
6 Koreatown and Mid-City
The densest ground in Los Angeles, and nobody administers it. This is where the crew lives.
7 Downtown
A corporate haven that failed, with a fortified core that didn't.
Inglewood
Nine square miles that work, a cemetery bigger than downtown, and a forty-acre pond where the stadium was.
8 The Beach Cities
Inside El Infierno, which nobody expected. Aerospace behind fences, ghost towns outside them.
9 Long Beach and San Pedro
The richest ground in Los Angeles, inside the cordon, behind the same fence as a million poisoned people.
Places
Single buildings, single facilities, a street and a river. Each of these is somewhere a run actually happens.
Oceanwide Plaza
Three unfinished towers downtown that nobody owns and everybody uses.
Santa Monica Pier
Three decks over closed water. The one place in the district where nobody can tell you what to build.
The Coliseum
Ninety thousand seats, a city that can't license anything, and a card every Wednesday.
The Strip
A mile and a half of corporate nightlife inside a district that isn't. The security belongs to the venues, and so does everything else.
Crypto.com Arena
Three dead words and a full stop. Locals say Staples. It's the one venue in this city that still looks legitimate.
Union Station
The land border, and the reason the trains still run.
Santa Monica Airport
Two hundred acres of contested jurisdiction, which is why everything comes through here.
The Getty
A fortress on a ridge holding the originals, reachable by one driverless tram.
The River and the Tunnels
Fifty-one miles of concrete nobody can see into, and thousands more miles of dark underneath it.