Midgar (Japanese: ミッドガル, Hepburn: Middogaru) is a fictional city from the Final Fantasy media franchise. First appearing in the 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII, Midgar is depicted as a bustling metropolis occupied and controlled by the fictional megacorporation Shinra Electric Power Company (神羅電気動力株式会社). The city is powered by electricity drawn from reactors which run on "Mako", the processed form of spiritual energy forcibly extracted by Shinra from beneath the surface of the planetary world in which the Final Fantasy VII metaseries takes place. Shinra's activities drain the world of its life force, the "Lifestream", threatening the existence of all life as the planet weakens. In spin-offs of the game, the city spanned a town named Edge (エッジ, Ejji).