The Earth is in a state of a spiral environmental decline. In many places the ultraviolet rays of the sun are deadly. There are ecological disaster areas, hot spots where no one goes. People are being genetically altered by the governments and at their own expense to live in their decayed world or enhance their capabilities for their own advances. The web has become a complete virtual world, preferred to the real one. The power and access available via the web has made all but 3 mega-corporations extinct. Business is now handled by millions of micro-corporations, more like families, gangs or tribes than companies.