DAENT

In the distant year of 21XX, much of Western Europe has coalesced into a single giant metropolitan area, the Gigacity of Great Europus.

The last major war wrought many life-saving and life-restoring technologies which turned murder and injury into inefficient forms of conflict.

As a result, the most malignant of disagreements are settled not with the blade, but with the shackle.

Quasicriminal organisations known only as slave cults arose across Great Europus and sometimes beyond, factions which induct often unwilling recruits, and force their continued compliance by way of articles of bondage sealed onto the recruit's body, often articles that can immediately deliver penalties in response to disobedience.

This kind of bondage-enforced compliance is increasingly finding its way out of shady streets and into the ranks of police units and the floors of expensive office buildings.