There is a planet, around a star, with one moon, wide oceans and large landmasses and great mountains and lakes and all the rest.

It's not Earth, but it is close in a lot of ways.

There is a road along a river, occasionally travelled by an electric car or truck. There are clan compounds dotting the landscape, almost but not quite completely regular in spacing, each consisting of boundary markers, fields (some with machines or people working in them), a fence or low stone wall, and then more fields and about a dozen sizable buildings within. Some solar panels and water collectors and wind turbines are visible, but generally tasteful and unobtrusive ones. The architecture is mostly stone and wood, but generally well-kept and often painted in blues and whites and browns.

All the plants and animals are uncommonly beautiful. The fields are largely a beautiful deep purple grain plant, drip-watered by little pipes running just under the ground, interspersed with a few other things. The inner fields are dotted with mass produced greenhouses, but they're kept clean and occasionally decorated with bright paint or frosted-glass floral designs and the like. A rodent of some sort has sleek and shiny deep black fur, with a diamond pattern of pure white on it, and two short bushy tails. A grazing animal in one of the amethyst fields of grain stares out, seeming like an intelligent, proud, and noble beast with fine fur and horns, and a confident posture. A passing bird sings a lovely melody as its bright gold and red coloration and long tail feathers trail along through the sky. The trees' leaves grow in odd fractal-like patterns, and are often covered with hundreds of tiny flowers. Some of them glow in the dark. Even the distant croaking of frogs is oddly melodious and soothing.

The Junnoe Hast la Nar clan compound is just there, some fifteen miles out of the local uncommon-services-hub. A short commute by car, which can be requested from a garage at that selfsame hub and will drive itself to and fro. And one Yan Shim la Nar, who lives in said clan compound, can usually be found either in the little relaxing-nook on the left side of the three story grey house, or in the uncommon-services-hub as 'work' during the day, in a bank of computer terminals adjacent to the local print farm and workshop, often reading scientific papers or fiddling with 3D models of factory machines.