From the introduction: Welcome to your new life in Farethere City! A smallish city. It’s a pleasant place, you probably work for a business owner there or you are a business owner! Regardless, here you will stay for 10 years. You can go to other worlds via the mushrooms and even gather and sell shells in Deepsea City for some pocket change! It can be astonishingly easy to make 5000 yen in one day just doing that. The people here are cheerful and pleasant, as long as you treat them well.