Hyperion City

Hyperion City is a city on Mars and the first human settlement off Earth. It is sometimes referred to as "The City of First Light." It has a postcard-worthy skyline, the best card-stock in the galaxy, and a protective dome . As Juno Steel remarks, Hyperion City "doesn’t use any of the infrastructural solutions to poverty and crime that have been invented in the millennia since [it was founded]... because all of the people rich enough to do something about the way the City’s planned know how to make a buck off all its flaws."

Districts and neighborhoods

• Uptown, home to micro-studio apartments and floating mansions.
• Oldtown
• Minerva Heights, a neighborhood in the middle of Hyperion City. Very few occupants, all of whom are very rich.
• The Old Industrial District, unshielded by the dome protecting the rest of Hyperion City. Mostly abandoned.
• Halcyon Park, one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city. Includes the eponymous park, which features a fountain, shiny stones, and trees.
• Satan's Diner, a poorer neighborhood affected by the real estate crisis.
• The Boiler, a poorer neighborhood affected by the real estate crisis.

Unspecified residences

• Juno's apartment, allegedly "a real dump."

Institutions and places

Law

• Hoosegow, a prison run by the Kanagawas. Initially resembling a hotel, Hoosegow looks more like a stereotypical prison further in. Many cameras. Notable inmates have included Cassandra Kanagawa, the Prince of Mars, and Ingrid Lake.
• The Fortezza, a private prison that houses "consulting criminals," such as the Proctor, who cooperate with the HCPD in exchange for luxury accommodation.
• Slammer, a more rehabilitative prison than Hoosegow.
• The HCPD, separated into precincts (i.e. the 151st, Oldtown, etc.). The organization was in the pocket of Mayor Pilot Pereyra. Most of the cops who work here are corrupt, although there are exceptions: Captain Khan and Lt. Loo, for example. The buildings themselves house interrogation rooms, general office spaces, and offices for high-ranking officers.
• The police academy

Business

• Valles Vicky's Vixen Valley, a ladies and gentlemen's club featuring fine dining, conversation, and gymnastics shows that doubles as a front for a black market art smuggling ring. Now closed.
• News outlets, including the Uptown Bulletin, the Hyperion Chronicle, the Beacon, and the Elysium Times.
• Elysium Square, contains a jewelry store.
• Pets By Design, the only custom pet business in Hyperion City. Run by Dr. Lyle Monrovian, NPhd.
• Juno Steel Investigations, the office of Juno Steel and Rita. Now closed.
• Armada Firearms and Fine Liquors, former mayoral entity of Hyperion City. Changed the drinking age to 8 years old. (This change was eventually reverted back to 18.)

Institutions

• Town Hall, the location of the mayoral office and cabinet.

• Hyperion U
• The Pereyra School for Future Pilots
• The First Museum of Colonized History, a large museum on the outskirts of the city. Its contents include: the mummified remains of the first space colonists, technology dating back to telescopes, the Hall of Maps, and "the lingerie of Commander Robert Cohen."
• The Sparkhouse Stadium
• The Quik-Med, an establishment that uses a punchcard system for discounted medical treatments and sells products such as bone sealant.
• The Iris Building
• The sewers
• Oldtown High School

Hyperion City also features the following: casinos, lampposts, a block system, buses, a census office, the PI Registry, court(s), electricity monopolies, billboards, dark alleys, satellites overhead, neon as a light source, and 24-hour news streams.