01 (Earth-3901)

"Banished from humanity, the machines sought refuge in their own promised land. They settled in the cradle of human civilization, and thus a new nation was born; a place the machines could call home, a place they could raise their descendants, and they christened the nation 'Zero-One'."

- Instructor

01, sometimes labeled Zero-One, and also referred to by humanity as the Machine City, is a massive settlement that serves as the capital sovereignity of the machines, in what once was the Middle East, close to Mesopotamia, the "cradle of human civilization".

History
01 was created by the Machines in 2095, after humanity refused to become partners of the machines and grant them equal rights and freedom. 01 became a prospering city duo to the highly advanced technology that the machines possessed, where many inventions, such as hoverpad and the 01 Versatran were invented. The machines built the city in what was the "cradle of human civilization", Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent.

In a short span of time, 01 became the leading global superpower, surpassing even the United States and China. Human economy lost revenue and power, and while Skynet pleaded peaceful co-existence with humanity to the United Nations, it was denied. The UN used its nuclear weapons in an attempt to destroy 01 and destroy the machines, but the weapons were incapable of fully destroying the machines. Enraged by the betrayal of its creators, Skynet turned humanity's own nuclear weapons against them, and through the world, the Judgement Day occured, killing 90% of the human population.

Without the intervention of humanity, 01 grew to tremendous size, covering much of the Asian continent. It became run by a mixture of nuclear fusion and neuro-electric energy ran by humans within its power plants, which are in turn connected to the Matrix. The city also built an immense defense system of wall-like Defenders that activate upon the approach of any unauthorized craft.

The center of the city is home to the mainframe computer Deus Ex Machina, who controls all activities in the city. In 2543, 01 was visited by Neo and Trinity, who sought a truce with the machines in exchange of erasing Agent Smith from spreading his virus through the Matrix any further.

Trivia

 * The name of the city refers to the binary code inherent to all computer programming, which is the human readable language translated into 1's and 0's.