Ok, so first here's a summary of what we said and some additions by me, hopefully it's enough to help you imagine where you character stands in this mess.
2136, the world has changed. After years of recession and sometimes political instability, people have lost their faith in the government. Using the disdain and sometime outright hate of politics of the people, the big corporation and wealthy people managed to tear down years of socialism. At first, the economy took a fresh start and everyone's live improved. Using argument as "you only really care if you sacrifice something for it", the wealthy, using the people gratefulness, passed law assuring that they'll stay in power forever. The most notorious one being the pay-to-vote decree, who allowed the politician not to need to convince the poor anymore.
Starting from this, the nepotism and old-boy network activities didn't need to be shy anymore and politics became about buying the vote of millionaire and more by granting them privilege.
Years after, here we are. You live in a stratified society where you can only rise so much. For those on the top, life is very good. The technological advancement made life longer, easier and healthier. If you're on the bottom, you will probably face dilemma like "how much have I to starve myself in order to afford a 20 years old home improved prosthetic arm to replace the one I lost while working at the factory?".
Some try to change the system, but thank to the pay-to-vote law, a peaceful change seems impossible. But with the new androids and weapon systems, an armed revolution seems to be doomed too. For now activist have no choice but to work from the shadow, constantly fearing for something to happen to them, should they become too influential.
You live in neo Tokyo and are born either from the high class, the middle class or the lover one. If you're from the high class, you enjoyed a life of luxury and had access to anything your advanced society could produce. Thank to your family network and/or business, you will or already have a high level job with prestige and authority. Of course even in this class there are different wealth level but, from an average Joe standpoint, swimming in tons of money or tons of tons of money makes little to no differences.
If you're from the middle class it's usually thank to your and maybe your parent's work and/or specific sets of skills. You have a skill-set interesting and rare enough that your corporate overlord would be annoyed if he had to replace you, so he has an interest in giving you enough money to live longer and be in a good to excellent condition to work. Even if you're living a comfortable life, you know that, should your company go bankrupt or fire you, you may well end in an assembly line.
As for the lower class, their children usually begins to work at the same job as their parent once they finish the short, mandatory state financed school. Usually this means working at a factory or working at the not-so-successful family business like your father's tinware company.
Neo-Tokyo had of course a lot of problem, be it gang criminality or, from time to time, more serious things like sudden high-level toxic air pollution due to some guy's factory either exploding or just avoiding the light "ecological" inspection because said guy dropped a lot of money under the table of another guy. Of course for the richer ones those problems are usually a 5 minutes talk during the evening news program, so it's not like it's such a big deal.
So here's a small overview of how I view the world. Please say so if you feel like one of your idea was too much overlooked. Now we're going to do a more in-depth character creation, I will write about it in my next post, that I'll begin to write just after posting this one.
Also here's the current state of the game creation sheet, so to say, for those interested :
Campaign name : API cute RPG campaign ~
Setting&Scale : Grim future. Character are going to play a role in a world-changing event, but the scale of their implication is still a mistery
Issues :
Current issue : Megacorp oppress the people and toy with the world, something bad is bound to come out of this
Impending issue : With (nearly) anyone noticing it, magic is appearing in the world
Face and places :
Tokyo megalopolis : Starting place, segregated by district : poor, industrial, rich and the like. The criminality is rising.
More to be added
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