Welcome to New Washington

It is the year 2227 in Earth's Common Era. It has been over a hundred and fifty years since the City-State of New Washington was founded, a refugee-camp-turned-city located near the mountains of an area previously known as West Virginia. The city's roots established themselves when Magic returned to the world at the turn of the millennium, heralding a cataclysm now known as The Snowfall. Monsters assaulted the Midwestern US and the coastlines rose, bringing refugees from all directions to one of the few safe places remaining in the nation. New Washington was ultimately the shield against this adversity, founded by the survivors of the continent's worst disaster in recorded history.

Since its inception, New Washington has blossomed into the largest city in the world, an urban landscape the size of some countries. Nearly every civilized race in the modern world is represented there, with humans forming the unparalleled majority and elves not far behind. While New Washington is technically a Democratic Republic, its operation is primarily as a Corpocracy; major corporations control, govern and police the city rather than the government itself.

New Washington is a fairly martial society. Over half of the citizens of the city are certified in some form of combat training and most openly display weapons at home, on the street and even in the office. Danger is a way of life in the city, and even an unremarkable citizen must dodge such life-threatening situations as corporate war, mercenary or terrorist attacks and monster raids to survive.