/tg/ Makes a Cyberpunk Setting

>Thanks to ever more deregulation, corporations are more akin to countries than companies. They run their own PMC that are more armies than security officers. They use those as an extension or their might and an armed fist to protect their interests and seize resources in unstable and politically weak countries.

>>44511886
Isn't that already a staple of Cyberpunk?

>Huge strides in computing have made it so that ever better computers are always busy designing the next generation of hardware, powering ever more advanced algorithms etc.
>Resource extraction is perfectly automated and optimized. Yet the rationing is carefully kept scarce in order to keep prices high and the rich richer.

>>44511793
>Space Travel is forbidden.

>Thanks to rampant gun regulation from Western Seaboard the guns, for anybody outside registered security corps, are limited to a three shot intergrated magazine.

>Thus, like the days of old, a brace of pistols are normally carried.
>hallo from /k/

>Genetic modification is only performed on the black market for rich criminals or politicians, owing to the huge backlash against GMOs in the 2030s.

>>44511793

>Everything is run not by the Japanese but by the Belgians

>>44512141
>These computers secretly, or not so secretly, run the rationing as well. They have long since exceeded the skynet/eclipse-phase singularity intelligence level, but because their prime directive was kept simple and narrow (maintaining a very specific sets of corporate status quos) they don't run amok, they just make sure things stay cyberpunk and dystopian

>>44511793
>White people are banned for being offensive and privileged.

>More than 90% of the population possesses implants allowing a direct neural connection to the net.

>>44511793
>Radical Islamist groups operate in cells across the world as petroleum peddlers for minor businesses'. If you miss a payment, they're known to track you down, drug you, and sell you into debt slavery.

Unless you have a particular implant you can't buy or sell anything.

>>44514388
Doesn't have to be Cyberpunk, that'll be the end of 2017.

>>44514146
>A financial war is being fought between the Flemish and the French

In Kent, England, there are five square acres of neutral ground. An idyllic garden where Corp leaders will meet for company holidays to play golf and drink sherry.