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Most cities are haunted by nostalgia (looking back) or hysterical futurism (looking forward blindly). The Dateariane does neither.

: Perpetual political infighting completely crippled the central United States government. This resulted in the nation fracturing into 96 independent mini-states . These micro-regions vary wildly, ranging from high-tech neoliberal hubs and communist communes to strict tribal societies and feudalistic theocracies. Hopepunk City -v1.1- -dateariane-

Hopepunk City v1.1 (Anniversary Edition) is a life-simulation visual novel by ArianeB, set in the near-future district of Artema. Version 1.1 introduced a built-in Help Paths Most cities are haunted by nostalgia (looking back)

Hopepunk City -v1.1- -dateariane-

The discards the "survivalist" ethos of earlier utopian drafts. It acknowledges trauma. The city has scars: repaired bridges, repurposed brutalist bunkers turned into winter gardens, and walls that have been painted over a hundred times with murals of extinct animals. This resulted in the nation fracturing into 96