Revada

The state

Revada is a fictional desert state in the United States, a day's drive west of Nitroit, and home of the Revada Festival. Mountains, dry lake beds, canyon highways, two-lane roads that run straight for forty miles, and one city bright enough to be seen from thirty miles out. Legal racing lives here because the land is empty, the weather is predictable, and the state licenses it happily.

Not an open world

Revada is deliberately not an open world. There is no free roam, no traffic, no police, and no driving between venues. The festival is a calendar of dates, each held at a specific venue; the player selects the next date, travels to it, and arrives. Getting there is a cutscene. The fourteen-hour drive between Nitroit and Revada is never played: it is a non-interactive sequence, scored by Nitroit's radio fading into static (Radio), and it advances the clock by a day (Time).

The comparison with Nitroit is in Premise.

Venues

The festival moves between ten venues across the state, each hosting on particular dates and suited to particular disciplines by its terrain. Disciplines are defined in Disciplines.

Venue	What it is	Disciplines
Sandreach Motorsport Park	Purpose-built permanent circuit with three configurations, grandstands and paddock; the closest thing the festival has to a home.	Grip
Vermillion Flats	Dry lake bed. Flat, white, limitless, no walls anywhere.	Drag, Speed, Drift
Halloran Basin	Temporary street circuit through Revada's capital, closed for the weekend. Concrete walls, no run-off.	Grip
Black Mesa Pass	Mountain highway closed in both directions. Elevation, switchbacks, exposure.	Sprint, Drift
Tarrow Canyon Road	Closed canyon two-lane; the narrowest track in the festival.	Sprint, Speed
Copper Line	Abandoned mining rail corridor, forty miles arrow-straight.	Speed
Anvil Strip	Purpose-built drag strip with timing towers; sanctioned and immaculate.	Drag
Rana Dry Wash	Desert wash with banked walls and a natural amphitheatre of spectators on the rim.	Drift
Cold Springs Airfield	Decommissioned airbase: runways, taxiways, hangars, cones.	Drag, Grip, Drift, Sprint
Mirror Salt	Salt flat at the northern edge of the state. Nothing in any direction. Used once a season.	Speed

Weather and time of day are fixed per date. The calendar says where and when, and the player does not choose: an event at Black Mesa Pass in late afternoon is in late afternoon for everybody, every playthrough.

The Circuit Final is always at Sandreach, in its long configuration (Rank and championship). It is the only permanent circuit in the state, the only venue with a full grandstand, and the only place in Revada that looks like the place where John Spaid died.