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CorpSeCorps: The secret police, now entirely privatized, devoted to protecting the Compounds and their interests. Short for Corporate Security Corps.
Extinctathon: An interactive video game requiring players to identify defunct animals and plants, along with their dates of extinction.
HelthWyzer: Parent company of NooSkins. Employees live in the gated HelthWyzer Compound, which features schools, shopping malls, a hospital, dance clubs, a golf course, and extremely tight security.
HottTotts: A child-pornography website that features Oryx after she is sold into slavery or someone very much like her.
NooSkins: Second employer of Jimmy's father. The company's primary mission is to create a flawless epidermis to replace wrinkled or blemished skin.
OrganInc Farms: First employer of Jimmy's father, whose projects included engineering the Methuselah Mouse as part of Operation Immortality.
Pigoon: A transgenic pig created to grow foolproof human-tissue organs for transplant. Falsely rumored to be tusk-free.
Pleeblands: Crime-infested cities and urban sprawl inhabited by those who don't qualify to live in the exclusive Compounds.
Rakunk: A cuddly, odor-free animal derived from raccoons and skunks. Jimmy receives one for his birthday and names it Killer.
Snat: An experimental hybrid of snake and rat.
Wolvog: A particularly vicious blend of wolf and dog.
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