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In the near-future, following a brief nuclear war, 7 corporations have taken the responsibility of managing and motivating humanity to its new future.
After franchising the IP of every country on the planet, the corporations pooled their resources and created the Corporate Internet, a sprawling virtual reality where everything from interstellar travel to online shopping is only a click away.
On the Corporate Internet—the C-net, CorpoNet, Company Web, Cointernet, Corp, the Mall—one can find massive human-digital structures the likes of which have never been seen before. Structures like:
The 7 Continents Mall, a vast and complicated shopping complex and mechanized wonderland housing every company in the world, where 98% of people spend a majority of their time;
the Cosmodex, a seedy space port frequented by -nauts of every kind in digital time, as well as the Cosmo-Corps, the official peacekeepers of the Corporate Internet;
the Hills, an endless liminal Frutiger Aero recreation space;
FiDi, the financial core of the planet's economy;
and the Boardroom, a single small-ish room where the Division Heads of 7Co meet to decide humanity's next move.
Just arriving on the scene is Walden—Wally—a young new hire by UMI Corp, one of the largest of the 7Co.
Wally's signed a three-year virtual work contract in the hopes of earning enough credibility and coin to buy the dream: his very own website.
While on the job as an UMI Corp Customer Relations Associate, Wally will run into a mix of real people and real-enough computer programs trying to navigate their way through the ladder of the Corporate Internet.
He'll also accidentally stumble into some confidential—and pricey—information that could change the entire nature of the Corporate Internet, and send humanity back to the Stone Age, or forward to a time unknown.
Between virtual reality and reality, corporate espionage, sentient computer programs, furious online shoppers, astronaut bar fights, lost love, arcade games, and the impending digital apocalypse, only one thing's for certain in the Mall: it's all real here.
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