For nine months in 1997, the Radan Locomotive Works is the Republic of Orsava in miniature: 6,400 names on a payroll four months late, a foundry that heats half a city, and a state preparing to sell both for less than the machinery would fetch with cutting torches.

• All characters are adults, with ages stated below.
• Economic coercion, wage theft, unemployment, corruption and strikebreaking.
• Threatened industrial injury and an on-page nonfatal crush injury.
• Alcohol and tobacco use.
• Sexual tension and an implied encounter that cuts away at the hotel door.
• No slurs are written out. Class prejudice and xenophobia appear through conduct.

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.