home to the rich and powerful of Basin City. This suburb lies outside the city proper, a half an hour drive uphill. A university of some sort is also located there, and the entire area is patrolled by armed employees of its wealthy inhabitants.
"They're quick to haul off the mashed MEAT and broken BONES, here in SACRED OATS. They've got the BLOOD scrubbed off the PAVEMENT before it has a chance to DRY." "You'd never know there was ever any violence ANYWHERE, to look at SACRED OATS."