Mirage

"Wow. This place is like a eutopean version of Moscow"
"No. It's worse"
-brief conversation between Raihan and Khaliah
The Mirage, often known simply as Mirage, is a city in the Qatari Technocracy. It is known as the Abode of Knowledge and the House of Wisdom. It is renowned worldwide as the technology and innovation capital of Earth, as well as the utopian counterpart of Moscow. 
The city is built in an arabio-futuristic style, sporting spires, ziggurats, malls, and laboratories built in a Utopian Arabic style. Mirage is known as a sanctum for scientists and people of mind, where they can work and innovate without the constraints of society, for better or for worse. 
Mirage is known for a massive rich-poor divide. The upper and middle classes of Mirage sport some of the highest standards of living in the world, while the poor, untalented, and expat workers often are "encouraged" into contracts that remove their passports and bind them to the city as workers for mundane and menial jobs.