Los Angeles, California

Day's Lake sector, where his family lives, is located in a futuristic and totally apocalyptic version of Los Angeles, California. A large flood had presumably covered a good deal of the globe. After the waters receded, a new civilization emerged, one that was no longer the United States of America. The land is divided between the Colonies to the east and the Republic to the west.

The ruins of the past civilization dot the landscape. It is to one of the abandoned buildings (a library ironically enough) that Day takes June when she is injured. While there, the reader learns that libraries, banks, and most large businesses, were closed, destroyed, or turned over to the government to run after the flood.

Drake University

This is the university where June and other high scoring Trial members are sent to continue their education. Attending Drake guarantees that the...