It's definitely on the meaner side as worlds go, though it's not as bad as the Sunshine family. It's high-stakes in a similar way to Gift, but not going out of its way to be mean. Once fixed, it'll probably stay fixed. The only magic here is Witches - Neuroi run on physics, apparently - but they're very common compared to Aurum witches or ingots. It's vaguely Earth-ish, but strongly off standard in a lot of new and old ways.