Amidst the desolate techno-barbarian expanse of northwestern South America in 2060, the city of Medellín persists as a fortified hyper-capitalist enclave. Housing slightly over one million inhabitants, many descendants of - or refugees from - the collapsed United States, it represents a pocket of isolated, exploitative order maintained by corporate interests and their private mercenary forces.

Unlike the larger hyper-capitalist hubs in Africa or the India complex, Medellín suffers from a more contested and frequently scarce supply of the vital NeoGuard™ anti SNP-treatment, leading to heightened internal conflict between corporations vying for control over shipments, local governance and the lucrative trafficking of illicit substances alongside the life-sustaining drug.

This environment fosters a unique brand of hyper-capitalist decay, where cognitive impairment driven by inconsistent NeoGuard™ access permeates society, even while maintaining a facade of pre-collapse activity, including energy expenditure on superficial indoor lighting in not inhabited housing units. The population, heavily reliant on rudimentary BCI and VR escapism, also finds regular communal release in brutal, gladiatorial contests featuring techno-barbarians and thrill-seekers in the real world, a spectacle actively encouraged to maintain social control among the bioinsecure crowds.

This isolated experiment in SNP-era capitalism, signified by violence, scarcity and societal fragmentation, operates under the clandestine observation of EPSCOM field operatives deployed from the nearby NXB biosecurity zone, serving as a data point on the failures of non-Transhuman Eudaimonist societal systems in the post-collapse world.