Nonsanc (short for nonsanctioned circuit, referring to a particular sporting league) is an RPG setting taking place on a future Earth, in which self-replicating artificially-intelligent machines perform almost all the work to sustain industrial civilization. Human population has declined greatly, with the 90 million shareholders of the monopolistic transnational Great Corporations now constituting about half the remaining human population. Freed of the need to work or compete in order to secure material prosperity for themselves, their main cultural preoccupation is mon battlesport, in which teams of synthetic persons (in a great variety of physical forms) fight as slave gladiators in the arena.
This setting was designed for a browser-based computer RPG that is a deconstruction of Pokémon and related works. It is also a satire on economic rent seeking and the proliferation of Digital Rights Management. The setting explores the ethics and consequences of general artificial intelligence, the reaction of (a substantial part of) humanity to an AI-driven near-post-scarcity / post-employment economy, and the question of to what extent conflict and competition are actually psychologically necessary for humans.
Campaigns
NSC One-offs: See CategorySessionLogs
NSC Form & Function (main campaign): Campaign Log, Roster
Nonsanc (main campaign): Campaign Log, Roster
Nonsanc Hub
Geography
The state of Earth's ecosystem in the 23rd Century.
History
A historical sketch of the NSC universe, from the 21st century AD to the present.
History of synthetic life in the NSC universe.
Economy and Society
Great Corporations, the pillars of the global post-capitalist social order.
Criminal Organizations, some of which have "understandings" with the authorities.
Feral Humans and Mons, people excluded from shareholding civilization.
Mons
Mons, synthetic life forms.