Meteor City

Meteor City (流星街, Ryuuseigai) is a junkyard city inhabited by outcasts. People who live there do not exist in any official records, and the existence of the city itself is known to very few people. Not much is known about the city and much information is covered in mystery. The city is rumored to 500 hundred years old, and was believe to have been founded by a dictator, that wanted to saperate the human race ( it should be noted that this was only in manga, not the anime verison). Since than, it's been a dumping ground, for other countries.The city is said to have the most ethic background, and a population that is estimated to 8 - 10 million.

The Trump Incident
About 10 years ago, a trump with out pappers was arrested for murder. When the local law enforcement tried to look for information about the trump, they found nothing. It was than, that trump confess that he was from Meteor City, but the police of the country refused to believe him, extracted an a confession him that he did commited the crime. In the tribunal, the lawyer that was appointed by the court, didn't do anything, and allowed the trump to be condemmed. Three years later, the real murderer, a drug addict, was arrested and his crime brought out. It was than recoginzed that the trump was falsely acussed. But it was already to late, shortly later, the police, judges, inspectors, witnesses, jurors, and lawyers a total of 31 people who all to part in false accusation, were assassinated. In one of the assassinated people, a message was found near the corpse's foot, it said "We accept everything. So don't take anything back". Everyone that did died were all killed in explosion, the assassins where 31 bunch peolpe that attached a bomb onto themselfs, and explode them selfs with their victims. It was all because one of their companions was falsely arrested.

The Phantom Troupe
A few years later, the Phantom Troupe was founded in Meteor City. Back than before the Troupe was founded, the junkyarded city was once close to the mafia community. Because the peolpe of the city has to records of their existence, they were often called upon the mafia to acts of crime. But however it seems that Phantom Troupe had something to do with it going bad. Kurapika even stated thet the Phantom Troupe where consider to have been the most abnormaly than any others of the city.