4. Tek Town During the 80's and 90's, the factories in what is now the United Technocracy were expanded and enhanced with the newest, best available technologies to help the city prosper. With high safety standards and very few accidents, people flocked to them, gaining tremendous respect for technology. They took the quiet residential district of Falling Water, which had violently protested against the construction of the factories, and turned it into the hip, bustling area known as Tek Town, a place they could be proud to live in-between factory shifts. When the Technocracy broke away in late 2008, the area looked doomed, but the locals banded together. They planned to create a business of their own that would allow them to survive the loss of the factories, and they succeeded with the birth of Virtuo City, the world's largest and most advanced arcade. The area is heavily patrolled by the police, lest it be taken over by the robot armies of the Technocracy and the income it provides lost to the city, and this promotes tourism in the area.

Virtuo City takes up four city blocks; a vast number of people volunteered to have their houses bulldozed in order to allow for it to be built, and were awarded the first jobs there as well as good quality apartments in return. Filled with total immersion arcade games that create an almost perfect feeling of being somewhere else, the place is the closest most normal citizens can get to actual being a Meta, or a medieval warrior, or (in some cases) married. Private rooms are rented out to parties, and both tourists and locals attend in force almost constantly, made possible by the fact that the arcade is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with no exceptions save for technological difficulties; so many people are trained to run it, and so much money flows in from it, that someone who's off most of the time can easily fill in on holidays, when even more customers are available. On a separate block is a service of more interest to Metas: the Virtual Training Dome. Built of nigh indestructible materials in an effort that cost nearly a billion dollars not counting the actual systems, the Dome allows any and all paying customers to run virtual scenarios that allow them to gain more precise control over their powers and hone their skills.