Editing The Big O (section)

===Setting===
[[File:Paradigm City.JPG|thumb|left|240px|An [[aerial shot]] of Paradigm City. The city is based on the island of [[Manhattan]] and is suggested to be [[New York City]] itself.<ref>''The Big O Visual'': Official Companion to "The Big-O" TV series ({{ISBN|4-575-29579-5}}), p. 39.</ref>]]
''The Big O'' is set in the fictional [[city-state]] of {{Nihongo foot|Paradigm City|パラダイム・シティ|Paradaimu Shiti|group=lower-alpha}}.  The city is located on a seacoast and is surrounded by a vast desert wasteland. The partially [[geodesic dome|domed]] city is wholly controlled by the monopolistic [[Megacorporation|Paradigm Corporation]], resulting in a corporate [[police state]]. Paradigm is known as {{Nihongo foot|"The City of Amnesia"|記憶喪失の街|Kioku soushitsu no Machi|group=lower-alpha}} because forty years prior to the story, {{Nihongo foot|"The Event"|何か|Nani ka|lit. "Something"|group=lower-alpha}} destroyed the world outside the city and left the survivors without any prior memories. The city is characterized by severe class inequity; the higher-income population resides inside the more pleasant domes, with the remainder left in tenements outside. Residents of the city believe that they are the last survivors of the world and no other nations exist outside the city. Androids and giant robots known as "Megadeus" coexist with the residents of Paradigm City and residents do not find them unusual.<ref name="artbook">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WiLuAAAAMAAJ|title=Television cartoon shows: an illustrated encyclopedia|volume=1|author=Hal Erickson|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0-7864-2255-5|date=July 2005|access-date=2016-09-26|archive-date=2020-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810205254/https://books.google.com/books?id=WiLuAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live }}</ref>