Society
Hondo City is a modern, technologically advanced society and as such it does have quite a few similarities to Mega City One: its population will flock to new fads and leisure activities to spend their days. On the outer islands, many live a traditionally early-20th Century rural lifestyle untouched by future society.
Hondo boasts of its superiority as a society over foreign Megacities, but it does this often by deliberately ignoring those considered outcasts and in poverty. Officially, these johatsu - "disappeared people", including everyone from homeless vagrants to those hiding from yakuza - don't even exist. The Sanya Sub-District, or Eta District (eta meaning "the filth", traditionally the Japanese underclass.), is where those openly ostracised and discriminated against for non-conformity are driven to, including former criminals and most commonly the Burakumin, those whose professions involved them getting close to death (butchers, grave diggers, executioners). They are heavily discriminated against for cultural reasons and suffer criminal exploitation. Hondo City also has a far more sexist view on women than many other Megacities, viewing them mainly as housewives and mothers.
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