Politics

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Politics

  Politics is the influence of an individual or group over a different group. The most common evidence of politics in 2020 is in Megacorps. This is just one aspect of the many directions that the common man is pulled. Small Corps, gangs, international, national, provincial, county and city agencies all exert their influence on the individual, while fashion, religion and public opinion make their own demands. In the end ,no one knows what is right or wrong anymore.

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Corps

  In these times corps hold the most power. They are not constrained by any outside force and hold the best hand. A corp has access to military power, economic power, control over public opinion and worst of all the almighty paycheck. Most successful corps have to take advantage of all these resources in order to maintain order in their ranks and among their market.

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Gangs

  Gangs are like the corporation in miniature. They maintain a level of physical threat, an amount of economic influence (in black markets and their dramatic effects on regular stores). A gang in a certain neighborhood can make drug trade flourish or arms sales and more. They can force shop owners to shut down or make them raise their prices in order to pay for damages and insurance. They can influence traffic patterns, police activity and the behavior of ordinary citizens (making them stay in doors or avoid certain areas of the city). The only hope the average person has against this influence is corps or government...

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Police

  Police directly influence human society by the laws they choose to enforce. In areas where little or no police are present, near anarchy rules. In areas where the police are present and enforcing the law, people are relatively safe to do their legitimate business.

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Government

  In New York their is City, County, State, Federal and international agencies with jurisdiction over some area of the city. Each with their own agenda. Each exerting the might of their military and paramilitary forces. Each making sweeping economic decisions. Each enacting rules and laws to influence the common person.

Fashion, Religion and public opinion

  These are tools used by all of the above organizations. Each will work to influence these powerful forces and consequently each will be influenced by these undeniable influences. The final effect is that each political faction can be measured and understood by their hold over these forces and the hold that these forces has over them. While the ordinary individual is pulled in several conflicting directions.

  Where will it end? Some will tell you that it will never end. Others that everything must begin and end, and that the real questions what will this bring after it. This question is the root of what cyberpunk is all about. The struggle to find the right question AND the right answer.

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