Yeah completely the opposite of RL Sweden xD

Now in reality the country with the second highest incidents of rape per capita in the world after opening its borders to "refugees" - Only Lesotho in Southern Africa has a higher statistic - and as they say: Everybody has their breaking point. It's not that much of a stretch that the Swedes could become hostile in such a way if that universe mirrors anything like our own...

@@bogmanhimself4656 "When we change the definition of rape, much less rape is reported!" Yeah, okay...

@@KillerChickn if you're going to compare rape statistics isn't it a bit of a confounding variable to judge different nations by a different metric? of course, i dont really expect someone with your opinions to be very capable of thinking critically or crunching numbers, but give it a shot if your head doesn't start aching too hard.

@@bogmanhimself4656 The metric is rape. There is nothing else. Orwell would be proud of people like you twisting reality to fit your insanity.

True that

Fuck Netherlands 360 years is too much

What do you mean by that? I'm considering retiring there is why I'm curious.

@@Danne1886 He means that our country has been able to reclaim and even create new land for more living space and even creating the Deltawerken to prevent flooding in the future. So with the story of cyberpunk 2020/2077 being that the Netherlands couldn't reclaim sunken land after coastal flooding is basically pretty unrealistic

@@Danne1886 Also you're welcome to retire here, I just suggest you not to live in Amsterdam since it's pretty terrible there although beautiful. Maybe stay away from De Randstad aka 4 biggest cities here (Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Den Haag) since there's alot of air polution in these cities.

I for one want to hear about the great emu wars, which left the entire nation a devastated radioactive bird wasteland.

Also, it's split in two countries, both Federal Republics, there are severe droughts, rivers are polluted, meanwhile NZ is doing great :D

@@Vitalis94 Lets be honest, Western Australia was never keen on the whole Federalizing thing in the first place and has had one foot out the door the entire time. It is no great leap to see WA forming its own nation and asking TAS, NT and SA if they are game.

@@Vitalis94 Probably because it is always left off of maps, so people forget it is there when deciding whereto invade

@@samael2607 Nah, NZ is just too remote to be even remotely considered as a place worthy to conquer, sorry. At least in the modern age. But you know, that's a good thing, and trust me, as a Pole, I know exactly what I'm talking about.

@@danielduncan6806 So they had time for finer details you are saying? Well it's still pretty sharp work. Oh by the way, I am 50 years old, as if 4 days into the new year.

I Love It!

even after all of this at least they still had bangers in the radio stations

There's a ton of great lore in the table top RPG books. I got them all on humble bundle even though I don't play. Awesome reads tho.

Well, it seems that cyberpunk universe is where everything went wrong.

High tech, low life, anarchic chaos next to tyrannical rule - the building blocks of a cyberpunk world

They also took a lot of the visual style (Mega Buildings, city life) from the 2012 version of Dredd.

@@xamalion7334 That had always been a part of Cyberpunk, way back in the '80s when Mike first developed the game. Though most of that was born out of what he predicted would become of American Mall culture after the collapse of the U.S. Economy.

@@xamalion7334 not from the 2012 movie man, from the original comic strip

@@artfiend75 I don't know the Dredd comics yet, I just recently watched the movie again and noticed that especially the mega buildings and their interieur bear a striking resemblance to CP2077. But I guess I have to read them when the filmmakers took the source material in a right way.

it's incredible that economy hasn't completely collapsed considering how expensive shipping has gotten in Cyberpunk

Oceans? Don't you mean internet?

A rogue AI controls the oceans?

@@michatomaszewski9388 that's beyond the blackwall

@@danielmatsui4336 Not really control but destroy every ship on the sea it can find due to a glitch and it became somewhat self-aware.

Cyberpunk lore: Mega war in south america, USA x Venezuela, Colombia , Bolivia, Peru... Brazil: I am a joke to you?

Umm...that describes a corporate feudal society, not AnCap. Corporations by definition are products of a govt charter.

@@seraphthegatekeeper corporations are just the evolution of the borgeious evolution, why would you assume the rich and powerful wouldn't form an entity to accumulate capital more effectively. Granted the idea of capitalism is completely contradictory to the philosophy of anarchism but yknow.

@@PopPopPopPop where’d you get the idea that capitalism is alien to anarchism? Free Market Capitalism is the only form of economy in a truly anarchist society. Corporatist capitalism which is a tool of govt control is what is practiced now. Govt charters make corporations, not just a group of people coming together. One of the hallmarks of corporations is their legal liability shield. Without that, corporations cease to be anything different from any other business with shareholders.

@@seraphthegatekeeper anarchism is the complete removal of all hierarchical systems, capitalism is reliant on hierarchical systems, can't have capitalism without the masses labouring for capital owners. Corporations are more "an"cap than you are, they don't need to make excuses about the free market secretly working as intended, their only concern is to maximize profits, zero loyalty to any state entity. The state and capitalism work in tandem, you're too delusional to realize that the free market relies on govt powers regulating it.

The world of Cyberpunk is based on pen and paper game made by Mike Pondsmith in the early 90s. He created it, CDPR just uses it, like with the Witcher universe.

I really feel as if our world is becoming like this dystopia. Call me crazy but corporations are on their way to controlling a lot of things that shouldn't be. Its disturbing. I feel like this was a prediction. We never look deeper into this type of media.

@@_Turtle_420 the thing is we are taught that we "need" those megacorperations.

@@bigbadlara5304 ugh tell me about it. We may just become like night city lol. Not an admiration but an inevitablity.

@@_Turtle_420 i feel like by 2040.... we will be living that cyberpunk dystopia ....

lmao

Believe it or not, they won against Libya...

@@Rrgr5 yeah and they partied so hard they got a civil war

ill never forget the toyota war's XD

Cahd: wins against Libya, has a civil war (again), has a lot of terrorist groups, *gets nuked*, and it still fights against terrorists, and radioactive mutants Me: that's Chad

Nah not really. There are many more major factors about it too. Among the first is the USA waging war in South America, which didn't go well for them. The Soviet Union didn't collapse as well.

Yes because nukes have prevented so many wars 😂

@@RMD94uhh they have. That’s why we haven’t had any superpowers fighting other superpowers countries since WW2

​@funcolours5556 yeah we just get proxy wars where everyone but us dies. Brilliant.

@rankovesc Bro the USA did wage war in South America. Using destabilization by fomenting dissent inside those nations.

The real life seems to be going into a cyberpunk & corporate dystopia / 1984 dystopia I can't wait for the asteroid impact that will end all life on earth

Nah, we dont have Soviet union 2.0.... yet

@@darykeng European Union replaces Soviet Union here.

@@CBRN-115 We kept voting for billionaires and demanding that corporations get free reign under right wing crony capitalism. And, well, the trajectory is now set.

I keep saying on stream, this is the future. No doubt about it.

Oh those poor animals. They don't deserve such a fate

They have cats in the game

@@Youngyacob It is heavily implied that the cat you see in the game is a hallucination much like Johnny. This is taken from a shard in game: "A Bakeneko is a demon that comes from the afterworld to the mortal world and can take the shape of a cat. It brings misfortune and it can reanimate the dead."

@@maxb2021 but Takemura sees it as well so it’s not very likely

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that might just be for Night City, they might still be alive somewhere else in the world

well it isn't really cyberpunk 2077 lore, it's just cyberpunk lore, since CD projekt red didn't make anything, they just built a world on it.

Meanwhile Jakartans in 2076 are rioting like it's 1998

@@chokeeweebee Let's be honest, most of Indonesia would be under the sea by 2077

@@Watchmanskey True, though I'd imagine a corpo governed Jakarta in 2077's universe ruled by the Chinese minority wouldn't be underwater simply because they'd have the money and political rule to safeguard the rich and economically important parts of Jakarta from being taken by the sea.

@@chokeeweebee Interesting concept. I'd imagine it to be a modern day Venice with waterways and artificial islands. A Nomad game with jetskis, speedboats and such would be fun

or walt disney's community of the future

What happens in Night City...stays in Night City

movie bugsy same plot as night city

Black Lagoon anime

I live in Vegas and it’s more of a copy paste

Iirc, it had a similar fate to the US, but the union just didn't completely dissolve. Just extremely weak economically and became more open to trade. Kinda like irl Russian Federation, but they kept the name USSR

You can find a ripper in game that talks about her home in the ussr. Basically it’s like the NUSA but with less crime and a worse economy.

​@@WordsofHeresyhow is Russia weak economically? They're literally the 6th largest economy by GDP PPP and 11th largest GDP nominal and have large manufacturing capabilities, Logistical abilities and military power.

@SergeiOleksao556 the government is deficit spending to prop up their economy and their forces have been getting routed since the spring offensive

​@@Bro1212_ Which ripper?

No wonder people keep asking me if I'm filipino when they see or hear my surname

Some families always seem to come on top irregardless whatever system is used to govern.

Not to mention Kerry Eurodyne goes back to Masbate from time to time.

cyberpunk Ph looks bleak with corruption and instability taken to max level but hey kabayan foods becomes the new jollibee

@@journeymanX jollibee becomes a megacorp. The horror

Same thing with New Zealand

except currently in the real world they are collapsing. with the rest of the EU

@@zee-fr5kw nah lmao

@@zee-fr5kw You've been watching a lot of RT, haven't you?

​@@VorexiaRT doesn't say this, much of Europe is in inflation crisis and high food and gas prices caused by their own stupidity

_Laughs in new alt-right Swedish government_

The scary thing about cyberpunk fiction is how prophetic they get some time.

Yeah, that's a Little Too Close to "Real Life" to be Confortable.

@@pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293 At least in our reality, it hasn't resulted in a massive oil spill that rendered much of the SCS inhabitable. Well, yet.

@@Josua070 not yet, but that's something that could really happen

100% perfect comparison

Johnny: Do you feel like a hero V?

You feel like a cybernetic hero yet?

No, they need to expand the NC first.

@@Vitalis94 I said in the future.

@@electricc437 Thing is, the lore of Cyberpunk focuses mostly on Night City, and the knowledge of outside world is so scarce, it's almost no existent. Say if they had to make their second game take place in another city, they would have come up with the whole lore for it. At that point the question would be: "Is it still the same world?" It could've easily been some other universe, not created by Mike Pondsmith.

​@@Vitalis94 I see. That makes sense.

With less bugs

Aaaand without Brazil...

without economic support from a strong US, canada would collapse and crumble into 7 different countries. toronto and montreal would be brutal corporate cities, the western provinces would be a lawless cowboy land.

@@treehouse-xo9vt Economic support from the U.S.? What are you even talking about?

Canada became controlled by corporations too

To be fair, there are many areas which are nuclear or biological wastelands in the Cyberpunk universe. Like North Africa, Central Asia. That world is really fucked up.

Ngl, I stopped for a brief moment when I was in the mission with Panam to bring the Kung Tao AV down cuz I saw the mountains of trash going and going... If its this bad in one mega city, I could only imagine how the oceans and whole countries would look like. Is a grim world indeed.

@@d.ml.g9902 if you’ve ever visited a municipal landfill, you’d realize it’s literally a mountain of waste, and the trash that covers the landscape surrounding night city seems like a large amount but would only be a relatively small addition to a managed landfill. Think 2d vs 3d, surface area vs volume. The amount of decomposition that naturally occurs from just the organics breaking down is enough to be loosely piped out and burned into a waste-energy production facility, and even then those systems only manage to capture maybe 10% of the methane being produced on a good day. And it’s only getting worse every year.

@@Rwdphotos I have gone to one since I live kinda close to one of these, but the thing about the Night City one is that it goes for miles and miles, sure we have kinda those here but not to the extent in where is literally just outside the city, under bridges, highways and between buildings and such. Although I agree with you, that we are definitely reaching those levels by the day in our current situation.

That’s the hole point of a multiverse.

@@hawkevick9184 whole*

its controlled by corpos :(

Also the main exporter of actual food

A radioactive sandstorm

@@elperrodelautumo7511 bro I live in Turkey 🧐🧐🧐

no duh

New Philippines could be also known as Maharlika, as the official name of the country.

Wdym? Cyberpunk Philippines *is* real Philippines rn, and always has been lmao

@@NurseAmamiya That's actually my point. Despite the decades of potential possibilities like some countries have been flooded, nuked, turned to glass, and/or have undergone drastic political reformations, the Philippines gets to slap "new" in its name and still be the exact same old Philippines as it is irl. XD

Speaking with one of the rippers in-game, she makes it seem like the US, and especially night city, is pretty much a degenerate 3rd-world country compared to the ussr, at least in terms of quality of life. Their cyber tech is still behind the times though.

@@Rwdphotos now im imagining what a cyberpunk game set in the USSR would look like

look up soviet union cyberpunk 2077 the wiki that comes up can give some details

USA from 2077 stomps

@@nobleman9393 whatever

So, say, 2021 USA from Our Timeline vs Cyberpunk NUSA 2021? Our USA would've won. Yes, the Cyberpunk USA has technological advantage (AV's, early cybernetics), but it's a crippled country. Economically, our US is more stable, so would've won in the end.

@@Vitalis94 yeah something like that

As of 2020, we had a lower literacy rate than Cyberpunk did. Agony.

Oh no doubt the world is super depressing. But I think that just lends more credence to Cyberpunk 2077s very human central story. You meet a lot of pieces of shit and are constantly exposed to the worst of society but the "good" characters you meet like Jackie, Misty, Panam, Judy, River, etc, they stand in stark contrast to the depressing background and make you feel like even though the world is going to shit some things are still worth fighting for.

😂 I hope you know that the most depressing thing about everything you’re saying is that we are essentially living the beginning stages of that. Yeah I felt the same even when it was buggy I was awed by it like a peek of what will be or what could be

Russian ia still communist

They do what they usually do

Australia's ties to UK were broken when the monarchy was overthrown. The Federal Republic of Australia is formed in 2001. The Aborigines form terrorist group to combat the the government, which seems to not care about them. In the same year, Western Australia secedes, forming the Republic of West Australia. They become quite wealthy from oil production. The Federal Republic of Australia declares trade embargo against the West Australia. Then food crash happens worldwide (due to biological warfare and natural disasters) and it hits Australia pretty bad. Meanwhile New Zealand crop production is very high, and they become major exporter. Then Hong Kong refugees flood the country. Only later they cease all export to feed their own starving population. They legalize Marijuana in 2007. New Zealand is quite stable in the 2020s. That's all we know about New Zealand. During Euro-American conflict, Town Springs is destroyed due to orbital borbandement. For the rest of the decade, Australia is mainly occupied with droughts, building Space Ports, clearing biological wastelands as many cities pollute the rivers. As for Russia, Gorbachev succesfully reforms the Soviet Union. Then his successor, Gorborev, transforms the country into the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, to keep the various republis from seceding. SovOil corporation gains huge tracks of land for themselves. Throughout the 2020s and 2040, Soviet Union declines, as their lag somewhat technologically, and aren't able to feed their whole population. Most of Russia becomes Nomadic, with the exception of few megapolises, like Moscow or Leningrad.

The cyber punk party ended long ago n people moved on to next fad, anyhows, cyber punk is THE only game which mentions most of the world. TWA or transworld air is headquartered in east africa, kenya to be precise according to lore. Also, there's been a the big corpos clashed severally head on n in proxy wars in africa. The game fad died but hard core cult following continues. There lots going on in the world in cp universe if u buy handbook