Cyberpunk lore is nuts

[Basman]

Neoliberalism on steroids.

What I love about this setting is how analogous it is to our real world, being a parallel timeline, but where society regressed into a sort-of corporate technocratic feudalism due to extravagant levels of corruption and government incompetence. Its SD Stage Orange run amok to such a degree that society overall for the average citizen is SD Stage Red due the abject lack of resources. People fight over the scraps.

You can see a lot of the same gears that run society in the real world in Cyberpunk. The political maneuvering. The competition. The survival agendas. Cyberpunk is essentially what happens when there is no one sovereign power. Instead there are a bunch warring powers vying for control but none of them succeeding completely in dominating the other and the resulting chaos that happens from the partial natural condition that exists as a result. Corporations also don't have any loyalty to society itself which results in there not being competently or properly funded social services beyond the needs and wants of the corporations (police are corrupt as hell). As long as they maintain dominance, corporations own society effectively.

Its warring states in a technological neo-liberal corporate make-up. Its technologically advanced with flying cars and advanced cybernetic implants but there's rampant gang wars and blatant corruption. Its complete madness.