El Asilo

El Asilo is a city located in northern California, near San Jose. Founded in 1890, it is a bustling tech mecca, home to the Vantage Corp headquarters, scenic beaches, the Point (a center of culture and business), and the world's highest density per capita of supers! It is also, of course, the serial killer and crime capital of the world, and is isolated by an enormous metal wall covered with a domed force field, preventing any citizens within the walls from leaving.

History
From its founding until about the year 2005, El Asilo made its name as a safe haven for superpowered individuals, resulting in its overwhelming super population. It was in 2005, however, that Preston Winters, chairman of the board at Vantage Corp, ran and was elected to the seat of mayor in a dubious at best election won mainly by his powers. Since then, the city has fallen gradually further and further under Vantage's control, both economically and politically.

In 2006, the wall and force field around the city was erected, and citizens were no longer permitted to leave the city. Vantage also used its political leverage to put into law and actively enforce anti-vigilante legislation, effectively criminalizing superheroes.

As of the modern day, the city's crime, and especially violent crime rates have gone through the roof, with a police force that is at best ill-equipped to handle the volume and severity of the city's crime and at worst actively malicious to the citizens it is meant to protect. Serial killers are a dime a dozen, fueled by the attitude of despair in the city and feeding off its sitting-duck citizens, and people are often "disappeared" with nary a word by Vantage Corp's assassin department.