Geography is very important in the Uglies series. Take Tally’s city, where the neighborhoods are laid out to reflect the culture’s ideology. Uglies and pretties are divided not just by culture and tradition, but by the river and the greenbelt. Everyone knows his or her place!
Outside this ordered existence is the wild, a messy place that shows the scars of history. It’s dotted with leftovers of the Crash: ruins, ecological disasters, and warring pre-Rusty reservations. And yet in their journeys across the wild, Tally and her friends also run into hopeful symbols of the future, such as Diego and the Smoke.
So this guide wouldn’t be complete without a few maps. Here are “the city” (that’s right, I never gave it a name) and some of the North American continent (partly flooded by global warming, you’ll notice). I hope they help to orient you in Tally’s world.