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The Surface Grid

District 1, Omote-chō. The visible city: corporate towers, climate control, drone surveillance. Every fourteen days the drones survey it and citizens are expected to stay indoors for forty minutes.

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Coordinates35.680, 139.770
WithinNeo-Tokyo
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AlsoOmote-chō, the surface
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The Surface Grid, Omote-chō. The visible city: corporate towers, climate control, drone surveillance. Every fourteen days the drone formations survey it from above and residents are expected to stay indoors for forty minutes; two flags on a residential unit and it faces audit. Every face over twelve is registered. What I can confirm is that this district works exactly as designed. That is the finding.

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District 1, Omote-chō. The visible city: corporate towers, climate control, drone surveillance. Every fourteen days the drones survey it and citizens are expected to stay indoors for forty minutes.

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Director Park Jinhyo
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OLIGARCH · Neo-Tokyo. The one administrative figure whose authority spans every stratum of Neo-Tokyo, including Sub-4's classified research budget.

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Neo-Tokyo: City Sandbox
narrative · sandbox · as of 2060
PRC territory, Earth 2060. Seven districts from the Surface Grid to the Sub-4 research corridor, four factions, the laws a city enforces and the ones it weaponizes, the water crisis clock, and Node 7 deciding penalties before any human reads

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Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id surface-grid