The Cliffs of Gold, on the Mercury Sea.
Against one cliff face stands the Hotel Cristalle.
Lattice Coordinates: N-3/0
Astronomical Status: Within the Lattice Plane.
Rotation: 9.2 Hours = 1 Day
Atmosphere: 28% Oxygen, 72% Nitrogen -- modelled after Earth's atmosphere, but nearly-100% pure, with a higher oxygen content designed to invigorate most races of HyperHuman.
Temperature: 68°F Constant, maintained by Core Heaters.
Controlling Inhabitants: 40 million HyperHumans of various races, all TSC employees or their families.
Other Inhabitants: • An average of 500 million tourists of all species.
History: The TSC claimed this world in the 79th Century. Within the Core, the TSC houses its headquarters, refining their Mass-Generator techniques to unrivalled levels.
Shangrila is divided into octants -- eight equal areas in which the TSC creates diverse semi-worlds of fantasy and intoxicating beauty. At any given time, five of the eights octants are open for visitation, with the three others covered with a hundred-mile-high ceiling of opaque hydrogen, under which they develop their future octant environments. Every ten years, a new octant opens, while the oldest open octant closes for reshangrilization ... using this schedule, each octant remains open for fifty years, and the TSC wizards have thirty years to create their next masterpiece.