FirstWorld

March 2036. The world has been divided, not by geography, but by standard of living and technological status. Some have nothing but their ideologies; some their addictions, their cunning, their desperation. The luckiest, safest, healthiest live in the first world–all of them employees of FirstWorld Corporation. A global communications network, a consortium of manufacturers and energy suppliers, a system of this is FirstWorld. They are your doctors, your teachers, your bankers, your technicians. They are everywhere and they are you.