London

London serves as the capital of Victoriana, an empire comprised of England, Scotland, Ireland and France and ruled by Queen Elizabeth II. The technology of the area is Steampunk.

Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837, and thanks in no small part to her consort, Prince Albert, London quickly became a haven for inventors and naturalists. This continues to this day. Dirigibles provide air travel within the empire, telegraph provides long distance communication, and kinetoscopes are becoming the popular home entertainment for those wealthy enough to afford them. Moreover, most people of influence have both human and automaton servants, and steam-powered automobiles and velocipedes share the cobblestone streets with the still more common horse drawn (or occasionally automaton-drawn) carriages.

Unfortunately, social conditions are far less advanced, though the advances in technology have given rise to a sizeable middle class. Still, far too many poverty stricken families crowd the streets of the East End, and mutants who by virtue of appearance or ability are unable to hide their aberrations have taken refuge in the abandoned tunnels beneath the city that had once been created to service the sewer system.

If a few more tunnels and residences have been excavated beneath the city, the government is completely unaware.