Illuminated Earth is a twisted reflection of the modern world where the advent of smartphones and the internet confirmed the existence of the supernatural instead of disproving it. Ever since the first supernatural phenomenon was recorded at Nevada in the year of 2004, Governments have scrambled to take control and identify these apparitions by forming organizations tasked with keeping as much anomalies as possible away from the public eye. Japan in particular did this through forming the National Police Agency Anomaly Security Bureau (NPAASB) under the National Police Agency, as well as a few reforms to its Public Security Intelligence Agency. Furthermore, the National Diet made attempts to regulate some aspects of the more public supernatural anomalies. All of this, in hopes of keeping the status quo in check.

Fast forward to 2019, and the supernatural still largely ran amok. New anomalies kept appearing each year as laws and courts fail to reform and adapt in time, mostly due to public protest against regulations leading to new laws being pulled back and the unpredictable nature of Anomalies in general, ever-changing, never consistent. As the decade pass, the top players in this new world of anomalies - be it from the government, public, or criminals - began to organize themselves into a sort of hierarchy recognized by many. From the highest governmental bodies to the lowest group of newbie contractors, they are united by different goals yet the same willingness to further their interests by making use of these anomalies.

Yet behind that many claim as mysteries, surely someone ought to know where they came from. Beneath the underground syndicates, governments, institutions, and contractor groups, someone or something is pulling the strings.