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SEADA: South East Asian Defensive Alliance – Military alliance formed by the ASEAN states in 2043

SEPIA: South East Pacific Intelligence Agency – Intelligence agency of the SEADA command

ASEAN: Association of South East Asian Nations – Political umbrella organization, currently made up by Korea, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, The Phillipines, Singapore, The Brunei Sultanate, and the Free Trade Authority Zone of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Free Trade Authority Zone: Special Administritave Region of the People's Republic of China, which is nearly independent on all but paper. Military neutral zone, although through loopholes both SEADA and PLA have forces present inside the city.

PPB: Public Protection Buro – The Hong Kong Police Umbrella organization made up by private military contractor personell

MIND: Military Intelligence Network Defense – The Free Trade Authority Zone's intelligence agency, regulating international and intercorporate affairs inside the 'Zone

Lightbringer Foundation: A joint venture project made up by several leading high tech corporations and national think tanks, it's goal is to advance AI research. Home of the Prometheus III project

Subsaharan Wars: An ongoing series of conflict in subsaharan Africa. Initially fought between warring corporations and their PMCs over Africa's natural resources.

Starkwater Security Solutions: The world's biggest Private Military Contractor

The Diversity, The Dive: Worldwide information network, successor to the Internet, based on Augmented Reality technology

The League of Infosocialist States, The LIS: A block of nations sworn to the belief, that any intellectual property has to be owned and controlled by the state so it can be used by anyone. Strong global player. Made up of Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, the Free Republic of Luzon, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar.

United Protronics Conglomerate, UPC: State owned umbrella corporation, bundling most of the biggest technological corporations of the US into one giant entity.

La Marina: Floating hightech city, constructed by the LIS. Technological wonderland, and showcase to the world, reportedly safe haven for criminals and traitors.

Orochi Military Ventures: Biggest Asian PMC

The Bionic Tower Project: Failed venture to construct a mile high vertical city on an artificial island in Hong Kong. Project failed during the 30's Uprising.

Bionic Fund Financial Holdings: Financial corporation that was constructed out of the ruins of what used to be the Bionic Project's financial backing. Allegedly a huge front for a criminal organization.

Bionic Island: Artificial Island in Hong Kong's Sulphur Channel, base of the defunct Bionic Tower arcology and home to Shelter City, a gigantic semi-autonomously run refugee city, policed by Bionic Fund's own private security detail.

Bionic Act:
Ruling of FTAZ Law, that grants the owners of any man made structure exceeding overall floor size of 2 million m² limited autonomy within the structure. Lead to most of Hong Kong's arcologies being operated under a special jurisdiction. Named after Bionic Island.

Sillicon Valley Blast: Terrorist attack on Silicon Valley in 2063, which destroyed most of the US' high tech industry with a nuclear device. Allegedly perpetrated by radical Taiwanese groups, seeking revenge for the US' abandoning Taiwan to the PRC.


The Glass Alley Movement: Progressive Democratic underground movement in the PRC, with alleged ties to the LIS. The Glass Alley operates mostly through the 'Dive and uses all matters of cutting edge technology to evade the Chinese authorities.

Progressive Democracy: A subset of infosocialist memes, stating that true democracy can and will be established worldwide by the advancement of technology

Bayer/Rosen Genitech: World leader in Bioroid technology

Caspian: PMC slang term for large Kazhakian Ground Effect Vehicles, mostly in use around Lake Victoria. Derived from the term „Caspian Sea Monster“.

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