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 be 500 hundred years old, and was believed to have been founded by a dictator, who wanted to separate the human race (it should be noted that this was only in the Manga, not the Anime version). Since then, it's been a dumping ground for other countries.The city is said to have the most ethnic background, and a population that is estimated to be around 8 - 10 million.

The Tramp Incident
About 10 years ago, a tramp without papers was arrested for murder. When the local law enforcement tried to look for information about the tramp, they found nothing. It was then, that tramp confessed that he was from Meteor City, but the police of the country refused to believe him, extracted a confession that he did committed the crime. In court, the lawyer that was appointed by the court, didn't do anything, and allowed the tramp to be condemned. Three years later, the real murderer, a drug addict, was arrested and his crime was brought out. It was then recognized that the tramp was falsely accused. But it was already too late, as shortly after, the police, judges, inspectors, witnesses, jurors, and lawyers and a total of 31 people who all took part in the 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 were killed in the explosion, the assassins where a bunch of 31 people that attached a bomb onto themselves, and explode themselves 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 then, before the Troupe was founded, the junkyard city was once close to the mafia community. Because the people of the city had no records of their existence, they were often called upon the mafia to acts of crime. But however it seems that the Phantom Troupe had something to do with it going bad. Kurapika even stated that the Phantom Troupe were considered to have been the most abnormal than any others of the city.

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