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The place was a warehouse at some point. Or a workshop, maybe. A drone hive? Who knows. But right now it's a hangout, and a party spot. The music is bone-rattlingly loud bass thumping with distorted voices and screeching guitar over the top. It smells like spilled booze and sweat and smoke. People are making out or passed out on the ratty couches, and the catwalk overhead creaks ominously as those atop it stomp in time. Strobe lights and lasers play over the shouting punk crowd, and a woman with a metal jaw and elaborate goth outfit is using black spray paint to cover the graffiti-covered walls and floor with vaguely demonic words and symbols- Satan, sacrifice, pentagrams, summoning, circles, devil heads, and more.
Demon Cam in Cinci
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Going by these two reference books: Some lunar domes, a big cylinder at L5 lagrange point, and a lot of low and medium Earth orbit stations, in terms of serious population. Mars, some asteroids, and some Jovian and Saturnian moons have outposts, but nothing like a full city.
Divvied up between a bunch of big-name corporations, including Serisse.
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Damn. Do they have procedures for claiming captured comets or are those up in the air?
The 2117 Serisse World Encyclopedia does not cover this.
Venus: Abandoned except for some unmanned satellites as 'too expensive'! Mercury has like a hundred people in an EU-run international science station, and has no other explicit claims. A bunch of the smaller Jovian/Saturnian moons are uninhabited, as is Deimos.
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Okay. It is not his life's ambition exactly but he will start drawing up tentative plans to take over Venus. Do corporations own everything or are there like. Governments.
There are governments. Ostensibly. There is a State of Ohio, even. Rusting Dreams says that corporations might as well be governments in their own right once they have a private army.
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That does seem like it'd help if nobody's being too precious about formal recognition.
What is the current value of the dollar - is that even a thing anymore - and what's it cost for people to get from planet to planet?
Ohio has Ohio Dollars, he's already overheard. Answering that more fully might require him to look for more reference material.
Cambridge Social Science Archive?
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Marvelous. Back issues of the Cambridge Social Science Archive, where in you is contained the phrase "basket of goods"?
Lots of places. Here's some currency information.
There's NCR dollars, Ohio dollars, and Texas dollars. In Ohio Dollars, it costs about OH$5000 to take a week long trip to Europe and OH$150k to take the same vacation in orbit. The average daily wage in Ohio is estimated at OH$70 per day if you include the Badlands and Cincinnatti's slums, or OH$110 per day if you don't, but the studies say this is hopelessly confounded and therefore just an estimate. Overall, OH$ seems about comparable to about 2020 US dollars in his universe, though prices are maybe moderately higher.
You can do that in Ohio for a OH$100 filing fee!
...If you're an Ohio citizen.
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Is there a Cyberpunk Dystopia Delaware somewhere he can do it cheaper or should he pawn a hundred bucks worth of stuff.
Grepping around references for a while will eventually find him a free New York registry as long as he promises not to sell drugs, weapons, or neural spikes and pay the sales tax.
The list of controlled substances is large and includes many of the things in his medical reference but not ibuprofen.
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Will there be a problem if he later starts a spinoff corporation differently incorporated that does his pharmaceuticals?
He might need a lawyer to figure that out.