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Cybertopia is a near-future city where megacorporations have quietly taken control of daily life by turning housing, healthcare, identity, and safety into profit streams. The bad guys are the corporations and systems that benefit from scarcity and control, not because they’re flashy villains but because they normalize exploitation. The characters care because survival, autonomy, and community only exist if people resist, build alternatives together, and refuse to be reduced to data points or revenue
WHAT IS CYBERTOPIA?
Cybertopia is a convergence zone. A temporary gathering where factions of the Uprising gather.
It exists to break isolation, exchange knowledge, build trust, and foster moments of joy.
Cybertopia is also the on-ramp to the Uprising, where new members of the Resistance step into their roles and are to continue the fight.
New people arrive not to be recruited, but to experience life outside the system. No pledges. No demands. Only recognition.
People leave with skills, contacts, and the knowledge that another way of living is possible.
Cybertopia appears, does its work, and dissolves back into the shadows, leaving the Uprising stronger and more fortified for the work and life ahead.
THE WORLD - the not too distant future of an alternate timeline
By the mid-2040s, the United States didn’t collapse under fascism. It was rebranded into it.
After years of executive consolidation, emergency powers never expired. Deregulation accelerated. Antitrust quietly died. The ultra-wealthy consolidated infrastructure, data, labor, and enforcement under a single corporate federation known publicly as Capital Corp.
What began as logistics, tech platforms, private aerospace, data aggregation, defense contracting, and energy “innovation” fused into one governing entity. The richest people on Earth didn’t seize power. They optimized it. Bezos. Musk. Their peers. Their successors. Names became irrelevant once the system stabilized.
Government didn’t disappear. It became subsidiary oversight.
Congress became a board that ratified corporate policy. Courts were replaced with private arbitration. Police forces became brand protection and labor compliance units. The Constitution survived as a historical artifact.
Capital Corp rules through efficient and methodical control.
Healthcare was a loyalty tier. Housing was a subscription. Legal protection was a premium service. Speech existed until it violated Terms of Service. Freedom was available. At a price.
CLASS WAR IN A HEATING WORLD
Climate collapse never united humanity. It clarified hierarchy.
Capital Corp invested early in climate insulation for the wealthy: enclosed districts, clean air filtration, flood-proof infrastructure, private desalination, predictive evacuation corridors. The rich didn’t deny climate change. They priced their escape.
Everyone else lived with rolling blackouts, heat rationing, and environmental instability zones. These areas were not disaster sites. They were labor zones.
Climate migration surged. Borders hardened. Deportation pipelines expanded. Refugees were reclassified as resource strain risks. The planet burned unevenly, and the poor absorbed the heat.
RACISM WITHOUT A NAME
Race was never mentioned in law.
It lived in algorithmic risk scores, zoning enforcement, predictive policing, deportation quotas, and citizenship audits triggered by language use, neighborhood profiling, and social association.
Entire communities disappeared through administrative action. Relocation orders. Frozen assets. Erased records.
Whiteness functioned as presumed compliance. Everyone else lived on probation.
LGBTQIA+ AND TRANS ERASURE
Queerness was not openly criminalized. It was reclassified.
Gender markers were locked at birth records. Trans healthcare was labeled experimental fraud. Providers lost licenses. Pharmacies lost contracts. Insurance coverage vanished.
Public expressions of queerness were folded into decency statutes. Pride became sexual misconduct. Chosen family networks were labeled grooming risks. Community spaces were shut down through zoning and safety audits.
You could exist. Just not openly. Not safely. Not long.
NEURODIVERGENT AND DISABLED PEOPLE
Worth became synonymous with productivity.
Disability protections were repealed as market distortions. Support systems were dismantled. Neurodivergent people were flagged as operational risks. Disabled people as long-term liabilities.
Institutions returned under new names: rehabilitation centers, productivity programs, compliance housing.
No one called it cruelty. They called it optimization.
ICE : Integrated Compliance & Enforcement
By 2040, ICE no longer stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is now Integrated Compliance & Enforcement, Capital Corp’s primary apparatus for managing “noncompliant populations.” Borders still exist, but they’re secondary. ICE doesn’t enforce geography. It enforces compliance
Anyone flagged as economically inefficient, culturally unstable, medically costly, or socially disruptive can fall under ICE jurisdiction. That includes undocumented migrants, climate refugees, queer and trans people, disabled and neurodivergent people, and entire communities whose data profiles suggest future “risk.” ICE operates under permanent emergency authority. There are no warrants, no trials, no appeals. Removal is called relocation. Detention is called processing. Disappearance is logged as data resolution.
Fuck ICE.
THE AUTONOMY UPRISING
The Uprising did not begin with violence, it began with refusal. Refusal to comply with audits. Refusal to disappear quietly. Refusal to trade dignity for access.
It formed simultaneously in abandoned infrastructure, off-grid clinics, mutual aid networks, underground art spaces, and forgotten neighborhoods Capital Corp deemed low value.
People shared food without loyalty points. Provided medical aid without authorization. Sheltered each other without registration. Loved without permission. People experienced care without cost. Safety without surveillance. Belonging without transaction. Once felt, it could not be unfelt.
Capital Corp labeled it contagion, but one they can’t seem to “cure.”
The Autonomy Uprising has no singular end goal, but a shared dream of autonomy, equity, and equal treatment.
Some participants dream of dismantling Capital Corp entirely. Others focus on building parallel worlds where its authority is irrelevant. Many simply want to keep their people alive. What binds them is not a strategy, but a need to preserve the most beautiful aspects of humanity: art, music, stories, history, connections, and most importantly: each other.
