Sonya, this is all your fault.

More Dreamscape stuff:

The cities are all located under domes a la just about any bad sci-fi novel you can think of; to get from city to city, you either get flopped (vernacular for being dropped out of the sky) or you take a hyperdimensional hallway. There's nothing wrong with the environment outside of the domes; it's actually fairly hospitable, weatherwise. But there are a few problems with nomads and dinosaurs, and the domes offer some small protection from flopping.

Flopping can happen to anyone, but you're more at risk if you're outside; the more you have over your head, the less likely you are to get picked up and dropped elsewhere. If you're picked up in a dome, you'll land in a dome, but nobody knows why. (I don't know why. It just happens.)

The society is very class-oriented; the aristocracy has so many tiers the walls at the census board look like a wedding cake. You can tell a noble's rank by his name; the more names, the closer his relation to the Emperor. Quinn and Leo, my original Dreamscape characters, are both upper tier nobles; Quinn has eight names, Leo has six. Nine names are reserved for direct relatives of the Emperor- Quinn is a distant cousin.

AU!Sasuke has three names; yeah, he's a noble, but he's only about half a step up from a well connected waffle peddler in terms of social status (granted, waffle peddler's are top tier members of society, but still).

The Rats have the most advanced technology, but they specialize in virtual reality and hacking, as well as nanodevices and implants. The League of Super Heroes and Villains steals Rat tech and modifies it to their own uses: the Villains make the best weapons, the Heroes make the best non-lethal but violent toys; they also specialize in modifying hyperdimensional spaces. The original hyperdimensional technology was developed by the Secular Order of Our Lady of the Unblemished Skies, and they're not saying where they got it from.

It's not exactly a cyberpunk world, above ground; you're as likely to see someone with a sword strapped to their back as you are someone carrying an assault rifle and clips of depleted uranium bullets. Cities aren't that different from those in our world- there's just less suburbia. Underground and in the slums is another matter, of course- the Mafia and other secret organizations are engaged in constant war- which would be why there are ninja.

It's a fun world, and it's pretty; it's the sort of world that really wants me to create a tabletop RPG out of it. There are certainly enough categories for characters. (You could be a brass noble with a whip, or a displaced kleptomanic fae...)