You weren't supposed to get this. Somewhere in DIVA HQ, someone is already filling out the form for losing it.
After the war, an emergency government was left standing. It never stood down, and its temporary posts never expired. Decades on, three institutions run everything:
Nobody planned for all three to be in charge at once. Three organizations. Three utopias. One city. The math was always going to be a problem.
Four moody minutes of Neonopolis.
Hot streets. Hotter outfits. Look all you like.Neonopolis Tourism & Civic Affairs
Everything here is on camera, from the surf to the skyline: vice-detecting drones overhead, gaze scanners at street level, an algorithm behind every feed. The city is looking back, and it’s timing you.
The Divine Infallible Vice Authority, DIVA, polices the whole city but one address: past the Cradle’s front door, a DIVA is just another visitor. Everywhere else, it arrests you, tries you and sentences you. Trials are solidarity hearings streamed live, and your Virtue Points are your defense. You are innocent until proven unpopular.
The city welcomes all compliant visitors.
The district advertises the friendliest licensing regime on the Atlantic. On the beach, rating another person’s body takes a license, and the license is one long glove: its wearer judges the Pose-Off, scoring every pose with a thumb up or down. The vending machines on the Strip need no glove. They scan your bust-to-biceps ratio and choose your drink.
A Council seat requires five or more daughters, and natural births outrank IVF births in the seating. Wanting a natural birth aloud is Pregnancy Envy, a Class C violation.
The Sisterhood Syndicate’s campus looks like a phone store that swallowed a fertility clinic, with green-lit artificial wombs in the base of every tower. Its services are open to everyone, as long as you comply. And pay. It wants the Church’s bank of “pure” pre-revolution sperm and cannot legally touch it. Instead, it pays the Church royalties to sell blessed genetics, and the only sex toys allowed to look male.
Breeding permits are issued behind the altar and need two stamps, the Church’s and the Council’s, but only the Church’s window is open. On Correction Plaza, the crowd at a public spanking brings snacks. The eternal flame has a sponsor.
Four men in one place is an assumed conspiracy, so bunk containers sleep exactly three. Every bunk door carries three stenciled figures; on most, a fourth has been added in chalk.
Clan Sovereign, the Tek Bros at sea, fled regulation to a flotilla where every yacht is a nation at war with the one moored beside it. The flotilla files more forms per capita than Neonopolis. Clan Pivot throws the Amazon's only pool party every day, for a feed nobody has paid for since the war.
Jade Swan · Badge 3597FR
She'll process you with a genuine smile. The smile is always real. The processing, now and then, is not.
Steel Fury · Badge 4091WR
Discipline legendary, puns accidental. Exhibit A: "If it curves, the only thing you serve is time."
DeclassifiedBlue Blossom · Badge 3376PO
The sunniest recruit on the force. Everything she says is sincere, and some of it goes off ten seconds after she leaves.
Pride Queen · Badge 3707FE
The only cop the dockworkers trust. Privately finds the whole apparatus of state virtue funnier than anything she's ever arrested.
Scarlet Sentinel · Badge 4600WE
Her dream is to be legally reclassified as State Ordnance. Ordnance doesn't have to attend Feelings & Affirmation retreats.
DeclassifiedDesert Dove · Badge 3687PR
Forty-one rescues in two hours, cut to eleven seconds, nine of them her waist.
The Most Spread Virgin on EmpowerNet
The purest livestream in Neonopolis, and the most watched. Her standing offer to 4.3 million followers: “I’ll let you do me.” She means her DMs. Off camera, she says good morning to the people nobody else looks at.
Anchor · The Daily Dispatch
The steadiest voice in Neonopolis and the human face of its most authoritative lie, beside a hapless string of co-anchors.
— Protecting Communities. Together.
Not logged · They want you to think this is normal.
Introducing Captain Yael
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