Where sand and heat are a constant and more common than air and life is a struggle, lives a society; a kingdom residing under dictatorship and flawed logic. To many it is home, but to others it is merely a place to stop and gather supplies and provisions.
A futuristic city, where madness is a shroud to its own existence, where humans are entitled to nothing, not even their own privileged lives. Borders wall a radius the size of Beijing, keeping all that's bad out and all that's worse, in.
In a world where animal shapeshifters are commonplace, various governments of the world have stuck some of these shapeshifters in so-called 'experimental communities', which are really artificial wildlife compounds that are set up for scientists to observe these people in their 'natural habitats'