Technical Age

Technology was at an advanced level.  Life was more complicated and everyone had a job or owned a business.  Every household had many useful appliances and electrical power was common.  People drove automobiles, flew planes of all sorts, and sailed ships of all kinds, or simply rode public vehicles, like buses, rail cars, and trains to satisfy their transportation needs.  Weapons were more advanced and required a medium level of maintenance.  Depending on the person or group, various throwing weapons, bullet firing guns, cannons, bombs, and missiles were used.  Some swords, daggers, and ammunition were made of silver, since most creatures of the night have a weakness toward it; otherwise they were made of steel.  Medicine was more refined by the use of medical facilities and well educated doctors to treat wounded and sick people.  Medical treatment was more advanced and surgery was commonplace, but limited to organ transplants on the highest level.

This major metropolitan area was divided into three sectors, like a major city in the mechanized age.  The sections were:  The rich or high roller sector, the middle class or workingman sector, and the poor sector or lower district.  Various cities had different sized sections of each.  The downtown area of the city had a vast transportation network, including highways, subways, elevated rail, and regular city streets.  All metropolises had a healthy population, exceeding two hundred thousand people.  The city area had a government that worked like an independent country.  Everything public was regulated and all citizens had a complete record registered with the government from birth to death.  The city was governed and ruled by a president that was elected by the citizens and advised by a committee.

The law was enforced by an elite multitask police force.  Suspected law breakers were brought to trial and cross examined by a psychic to determine if the suspect was guilty.  Lawyers were found to be obsolete in this type of system, because of bribery or underhanded swaying.  The fate of the offender was predetermined; depending on what punishment was assigned to the crime committed.  If the suspect was found guilty and had a history of three offenses, then the suspect was sentenced to death.  Only the city president could pardon an offender. 
A specialized security force consisting of soldiers, other than the police, and attack vehicles defended the city from outside invaders.  Bounty hunters and slayers defended the inner part of the city.  Government bodyguards protected the president and the advisory committee from any foes within the core of the city.