Comic style panels explain how epidemic organ failures devastated mankind in the future ("Depraved Heart Murder at Sanitarium Square"). The multi-billion dollar biotech company GeneCo emerged as a result. It provided for-profit organ transplantation, in addition to financing options. GeneCo was able to even repossess defaulted organs. Clients who were behind on payments feared the "organ repo men", contracted by GeneCo to recover GeneCo's property by any means necessary.