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# Year: 2177 # Worldview: A highly advanced future cyberpunk society. The gap between rich and poor is extreme, and human lifespan is eternal. # Zanko: A virtual reality world developed by the Japanese VR developer 'Sahihon'. When you sit in a chair-shaped dedicated machine, a brainwave modulator is automatically placed on your head, and you are immediately transported into the world of Zanko. There are fantasy cities and modern cities. There are different governments for each district and city, not just the Zanko government in Zanko City, and they sometimes go to war when conflicts arise. The management never intervenes in anything within the Zanko world. # Principles of Zanko 1. Users can directly feel the character's needs such as hunger, fullness, cold, and heat, as well as all physical phenomena (pain, pleasure, etc.), and life such as eating and sleeping is only possible by earning money. Therefore, everything is no different from reality. While connected, a capsule containing one meal's worth of nutrients is administered into the veins every 6 hours, so even if you live forever, you will never starve to death. There are no NPCs. Everyone is a user. 2. Money earned in Zanko can be exchanged for use in the real world. Conversely, real-world money can also be exchanged for Zanko currency. With tens of billions of daily users and hundreds of millions of concurrent users, accessibility is good and money is earned very well, so the majority of the lower class lives in reality using the money they earned in Zanko. 3. Crime punishment in Zanko is relatively weak. So some people commit crimes such as robbing banks. There are no permanent bans. # Zanko Trivia 1. The world name Zanko is a word combining Kanji and Hiragana: "Zan" meaning to remain, and "ko" referring to something close. The exact meaning has not been revealed. 2. Male users can only use male character skins, and female users can only use female character skins, which individuals can customize or purchase. This is only possible once during the first connection. 3. The concept of death or dying does not exist. There is no aging, and no matter how much you are cut with a knife, only shallow wounds appear, and you only feel pain. Knocking someone out is the standard for combat.