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Neotokyoº is set in a near-future Japan, roughly 30 to 40 years from now (2030-2040). Augmented by technology, yet grappling with the new age, the inner political tensions culminate in covert warfare between the two main factions of the game: the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force SOG43 Jinrai, and the NSF's Group Six.

Political/Hystorical Setting
Japan is in the middle of some rough times. 40 years into the future, the nation finds itself entangled in some very serious internal and external problems. Externaly, Asian geopolitic stress haunts the country, while internally, changing times cause inevitable social and economic problems. Tension rises when many start adhering to the previously abandoned ways of the nation exerting it's influence through military and economic dominance; something impossible due to Japan having forsaken it's right to wage war in the Postwar Constitution of 1947.

However, when a legislative push to alter the Japanese Constitution fails (allowing the Japanese military to engage in offensive actions outside of the country, effectively turning the Self-Defense Forces into offensive Armed Forces) the GSDF leads a military coup, which ultimately fails as well.

While a failed push, it was disturbingly close to succeeding; something even the current government was painstakingly aware of. The need for internal stability becomes an absolute priority, and the Prime Minister is quick to create a branch within the Interior Ministry's National Security Force dubbed Group Six. They act as a CEC paramilitary unit, sworn to protect the Constitution at all costs. They answer to no one but the Prime Minister himself, and are charged with the suppression of any and all further threats to the Constitution and the government it stands for.

The rest of the country, however, isn't peaceful just yet. With the first attempt subdued, the NSF begin to gather rumors of a second force maneuvering for a second attempt - the grim news only grows worse as reserch confirms they are part of the GSDF's Special Operation Groups. SOG43, the "Jinrai", are diehard nationalists, loyal only to their love of their country and what they believe is best for it; in this case, it's rise as a superpower by means of force. Group Six is imediately tasked with it's suppression, a feat of no easy execution.

Desperate to regain as much internal stability as possible, the government orders this to be a covert campaign, as exposure to the public would only serve to increase insecurity and risk further uprisings and open rebellions like Jinrai's. So begins the shadow conflict between the NSF and Jinrai.