Transistor

"When everything changes, nothing changes". The Camerata adore Cloudbank City, in the beginning Royce and Grant were always building and supporting people's dreams. However Cloudbank's people became fickle in prosperity: they constantly bickered over trivial things in the OVC terminals and people who excelled in Selection became became a potential threat to order through their sway over the people(who in turn decided the fate of the city). In the end Cloudbank stagnated, Cloudbank's people expected everything from their better halves and kept building useless things without any real progress towards society-everything changed but nothing changed. So the Camerata got desperate, they blamed the problem on the Selected for coddling the people with their amazing but ultimately useless pointless feats. Imprisoning them would only invite anarchy and outright murder would be worse, so they had each of them disappear in a way that makes it seem like they would appear fine the next day.

The Process was always there, Royce was found by The Process in Fairview and Grant was the one who pushed him to try and control it.

Not much is known about the Process and perhaps to make them more fearsome or support the fact that they were mysterious creatures to the conventional world. What is known is that the Process is an entity that supports Cloudbank by acting as workers or soldiers should the need arise, that it adores the people (Red and the Snapshots, they never kill just change the people's form) and that if the Transistor can become the voice of the people it can be compelled to do terrible things. In the end the Process's location is unknown, and seeing as Red was the only one capable of finding out that time it's likely to stay that way with her death. Perhaps that was one of the motives behind her committing suicide.

Royce did not flee to The Country after the outbreak, he went to a semi-isolated district in Fairview to secretly continue his work and stayed there once the Outbreak started. The Country is the afterlife that much is known, it's a questionable existence like Heaven-the only proof is that people support the it's existence thus it's form changes according to the people.

The final boss battle takes place in the Transistor or "The Country" as some would call it, this is evident by the storage banks which hold people in them (remember how Red's lover said he couldn't see or feel anything?) and the grasslands in the background of the battle are similar to the lands seen in the ending credits. Nobody leaves the Transistor, once you go in you can't get out but Red is an exception as she's a User and controls the Transistor but Royce too vied for the position of User when he as a living being was sucked into the Transistor with Red. When one of them leaves the Transistor will recognize the other person as data to be absorbed into the Transistor, this is evident by the Function called Flood and Crash.